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Bank says no? Ditch the bank – borrow from the crowd
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This week's magazine
10 December 2011
Issue 2842
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Physics
Key mathematical tool sees first advance in 24 years
A new method of matrix multiplication is a surprising theoretical leap that might one day have myriad applications
News
Life
Mystery disease is killing Arctic seals
News
Life
Smallest habitable world around sun-like star found
News
Earth
China’s consumers emit more than US for the first time
News
Health
Embryonic stem cells to be made available for free
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Signals point to a light Higgs boson
News
Health
Indian snakebite deaths 23 times higher than thought
News
Environment
Chimp markets reveal evolution of friendship
News
Life
Chimp brains may be hard-wired to evolve language
News
Physics
Neutrinos give US best shot at post-Tevatron glory
News
Health
Birth simulator reduces chance of emergency C-sections
News
Life
Ötzi the iceman’s stomach throws up a surprise
News
Health
Sex on the brain is different for males and females
News
Health
Abused children’s brains work like soldiers’ do
News
Physics
Entangled diamonds blur quantum-classical divide
News
Health
Leaning to the left makes the world seem smaller
News
Health
Fooling immune system reverses mice multiple sclerosis
News
Space
Two biggest black holes ever found
News
Space
Astrophile: Did comet killing spark Christmas light show?
News
Life
Police can identify suspect’s eye colour from DNA
News
Life
House-proud frogs boast about their burrows
News
Environment
Naked mole rats make deformed, sluggish sperm
News
Space
Voyager space probes show outsiders’ view of Milky Way
News
Space
AI to predict sun’s next attack on Earth
News
Technology
Facial recognition software spots family resemblance
News
Technology
Haptic code-entry makes PINs a touch harder to steal
News
Technology
Riot shields could scatter crowds with ‘wall of sound’
News
Technology
Brave the mall maze with indoor positioning systems
News
Opinion
A nation of willing guinea pigs?
Opening up the records of the UK's health service could benefit the health of people round the world
Opinion
Can citizen banking neuter the fat cats?
Opinion
Physics
The Higgs is only half the problem
Opinion
To navigate economic storms we need better forecasting
Opinion
I want to give poor children computers and walk away
Opinion
Health
Don’t blame the usual suspect for cancer
Opinion
Features
Life
Power of Babel: Why one language isn’t enough
Humans speak 7000 different tongues – and not just to be difficult. Everything from genes to jungles has played a part
Features
Technology
Bank says no? Ditch the bank – borrow from the crowd
Features
Physics
The truth hurts: LHC breaks supersymmetry’s beauty
Features
Health
DNA death predictors: What do they really tell you?
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