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CONTENTS
Volume 205 No 2752
NEWS 5
6 B
COVER STORY
EDITORIAL Scientific fingerprinting, at last
Relativity's final frontier
UPFRONT Overfishing and its effect on cookery, Artificial dark matter - probed
THISWEEK World shipping's inadvertent geoengineering
The search for
experiment poised to end, Putting science into
ripples in space
fingerprint evidence, Orange star will clip solar system, Did Neptune devour a super-Earth?
time approaches
Simple sketches that move the brain
its climax
12 INSIGHT What exactly are nuclear weapons for?
16 IN BRIEF Octopus lacks "personality", Gorilla play reveals theory of mind, Psychopathy is its own reward
Cover image Sam Chivers
19 TECHNOLOGY
Cybercrime for dummies, Sharpening translation tools, Round-the-corner radar
Future perfect
OPINION 24 LETTERS All about climate change, Sugar pills 26 Barefoot statistics Important things get left
out when government and big business are the
This man has
only ones funding statistics, says Ludi Simpson
been predicting
27 One minute with ... Brian Cox on fighting cuts
the future and
in physics, Tony Blair's theme tune and his love
getting it right
affair with T itan
for 30 years
2B Hippy icon to eco-pragmatist Why Stewart Brand thinks green ideology is flawed and
nuclear power and slums are good
FEATURES 30 Relativity's final frontier (see right)
34 It's a bug's death A smart new way to eliminate the pests that ruin crops while leaving their benign relatives unharmed
3B The brain broadcast Get enough of the right
brain cells to talk about the same thing, and out pops consciousness
8
Coming next week
42 The predictioneer (see right)
Weird moons
REGULARS 24 ENIGMA
46 BOOKS & ARTS
Reviews Taking a byte out of the universe,
Decoding Reality paints an intriguing picture of how quantum mechanics constructs the world,
47 Evolving ecosystems, Battery power rules, Navigating, naturally
56 FEEDBACK Dangerous fictions for kids 57 THE LASTWORD Salt assault
The shipping forecast Theworld's shipping lines are poised to implement pollution measures thatwill boost global warming
The solar system has more than 170 of them. We pick our top 10 Jared Diamond on the science of human history PLUS
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