Impossible chemistry: Having entropy both ways
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This week's magazine
21 January 2012
Issue 2848
Editor's picks
Physics
Impossible chemistry: Crystal paradox
Features
Physics
Impossible chemistry: Quantum escape tunnel
Features
Impossible chemistry: Forcing noble gases to work
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Life
One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback
Features
Life
Driller killers: Turning bacteria’s weapons on them
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Humans
Learning without remembering: Brain lab goes to school
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Table of contents
News
Cruise ships shouldn’t capsize so fast, says union
A maritime union is leading calls for the redesign of cruise liners after the fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia
News
Earth
US education advocates tackle climate change sceptics
News
Health
Condoms are slowing HIV spread in South Africa
News
Earth
China set to launch first caps on CO2 emissions
News
Red wine researcher accused of fraud
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Death by helium for cosmos-mapping Planck observatory
News
Space
Satellites help track pirate loot in Somalia
News
Physics
Death-defying time crystal could outlast the universe
News
Health
Totally drug-resistant TB at large in India
News
Physics
Neural network gets an idea of number without counting
News
Space
Astrophile: Glimpse elusive matter in shattering star
News
Earth
Live updates from fishing boats could reduce waste
News
Environment
Vegetarian orang-utans eat world’s cutest animal
News
Technology
Costs of killing Iran’s nuclear scientists
News
Environment
Grouse have signature drumming styles
News
Health
Cell recycling makes exercise good for you
News
Life
Compression garments reduce muscle fatigue
News
Earth
Wandering albatross gets boost from rising winds
News
Health
New bug-fighter cell may force immune response rethink
News
Environment
Why deep-sea dragonfish have such extraordinary jaws
News
Physics
Smallest magnetic memory uses just 12 atoms
News
Life
Smallest exoplanet is the size of Mars
News
Technology
Must-have robots come nearer with software explosion
News
Technology
Take tips from the arts to make robots come alive
News
Technology
Robot videojournalist uses cuteness to get vox pops
News
Opinion
Chemists should effervesce about their science
Much technology relies on it, but chemistry is all but invisible to the general population – chemists should spread their excitement
Opinion
Technology
Time for robots to get real
Opinion
Health
Too many given no right to refuse in medical trials
Opinion
Earth
Education campaigner wants to expel climate denial
Opinion
Humans
‘Human beings are learning machines,’ says philosopher
Opinion
Features
Physics
Impossible chemistry: Crystal paradox
When Dan Shechtman said he had found "quasicrystalline" atomic symmetry, a Nobel laureate ridiculed him. Good thing he stuck to his guns
Features
Impossible chemistry: Having entropy both ways
Features
Physics
Impossible chemistry: Quantum escape tunnel
Features
Impossible chemistry: Forcing noble gases to work
Features
Life
One-way evolution: The ladder of life makes a comeback
Features
Life
Driller killers: Turning bacteria’s weapons on them
Features
Humans
Learning without remembering: Brain lab goes to school
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Exhibiting quantum behaviour
More quantum parking, how soccer causes global warming, wet clergy on riot duty, and more
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Loo clue 1
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Loo clue 2
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Growth spurt
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Getting lippy
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What a gas
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Buzz off
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Get crackling
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Brow not beaten
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