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Earthquakes: History and measurement

Earthquakes: Ground motion

Earthquakes: Prediction

Earthquakes: Which way now?

Dark matter mysteries: a true game of shadows

Technology

Into thin air: Gliding to 90,000 feet

Earth

Boom and doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse

Table of contents

News

Health

FBI crackdown on unproven stem cell therapies

A scientist has been named in a federal indictment as part of a team that allegedly received $1.5 million for unproven treatments

Environment

Dolphin increasingly on the menu in poor countries

Physics

Faster-than-light neutrinos dealt another blow

Space

Twin satellites buzz around man in the moon

Life

Biobank UK prepares to open for business

60 Seconds

Life

Parasitic fly could account for disappearing honeybees

Physics

Nobel prizewinning quasicrystal fell from space

Health

Murder trial highlights return of Dickensian killer

Space

Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth

Physics

Higgs result means elegant universe is back in vogue

Space

Jupiter’s heart is dissolving

Life

Siberia was a wildlife refuge in the last ice age

Life

Turtles’ map holds if Earth’s magnetic field drifts

Health

Battle to eradicate polio reaches critical endgame

Health

Birth trauma etched in ancient female pelvis

Environment

Chimps learn about nature’s medicine chest from elders

Space

Did star cluster death rays zap Earth?

Life

Antarctic fossil shows sauropod dinosaurs were global

Disguised stem cells home in on injuries

Physics

Mundane dark matter may lurk in starry clusters

Health

Common virus may trigger MS nerve damage

Life

Eunuch spiders still have balls

Life

A scorpion’s body serves as a basic eye

Technology

Buildings and clothes could melt to save energy

Technology

Air battery to let electric cars outlast gas guzzlers

Technology

Stroke your car seat to pump up the volume

Technology

Timeline puts your life in Facebook’s hands

Technology

Kinect system tracks you with an eye on your shoes

Opinion

Physics

No more eureka moments

Is the moment of discovery becoming ever harder to pin down?

Down with the Dickensian disease of rickets

Earth

Ecologists should learn to look on the bright side

Science needs a universal symbol

Earth

Roger Scruton: Green philosophy begins at home

Physics

Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview

Health

The man who saves Stephen Hawking’s voice

Aperture

Look into the eyes of a rare ancient African sculpture

Excavated from a village in Nigeria, a 2000-year old terracotta head from the Nok culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of clay art ever discovered

Features

Earthquakes: History and measurement

It has taken centuries to grasp the true causes of the planet's rumblings – and only in the 1930s did seismologists agree how to size them up

Earthquakes: Ground motion

Earthquakes: Prediction

Earthquakes: Which way now?

Dark matter mysteries: a true game of shadows

Technology

Into thin air: Gliding to 90,000 feet

Earth

Boom and doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse

Culture

Cooperation, the secret weapon of our species

In his thoughtful Together: The rituals, pleasures and politics of co-operation, Richard Sennett argues there are ways to overcome ingrained tribalism

Ten books for 2012

Sex, brains and a frustrated reader

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Enigma Number 1679

Regulars

Feedback: Floating in a most peculiar garb

Plastic ponchos for astronauts, why the UK needs maths free schools, PwC's guide to the land of Antimoon, and more

This Week’s Letters

Ropey soap

Which way to go

Kitchen alchemy

Frosty sludge

Scraping the bottom

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