Milky Way mysteries: Antimatter factory
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This week's magazine
31 March 2012
Issue 2858
Editor's picks
Milky Way mysteries: Five oddities of our galaxy
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Milky Way mysteries: Our galaxy’s shape
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Milky Way mysteries: Disappearing dwarf galaxies
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Milky Way mysteries: Andromeda, our sibling rival
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Milky Way mysteries: Fast-moving clouds defy gravity
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Milky Way mysteries: Where are all the supernovae?
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Earth
Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world
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Health
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead
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Physics
Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained
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Table of contents
News
A fifth of US pharmacies refuse teens contraception
Teens legally entitled to emergency contraception were refused by 19 per cent of pharmacies compared with 3 per cent of GPs calling on their behalf
News
Ship formerly known as Exxon Valdez to be scrapped
News
Earth
Fracking could foil carbon capture plans
News
Health
Pressure to tighten up antibiotics on US farms
News
Bacteria could be significant cause of OCD
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Neutrino funding crunch could be good news for protons
News
Health
Antibiotics may make you fat
News
Earth
Methane cuts could delay climate change by 15 years
News
Earth
Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point
News
Physics
Entering the world’s premier antimatter factory
News
Life
Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy
News
Physics
Lightning directed by laser beams
News
Space
Clocking galaxy clusters to gauge dark energy
News
Life
Dolphin social networks are unusually open
News
Health
Classical music affects heart transplants
News
Health
False memories generated in lab mice
News
Earth
Zoologger: First animal with ovaries on the outside
News
Space
Earth has little to fear from a black hole attack
News
Sensitive blood test detects cancer’s comeback
News
Square galaxy is a rebel
News
Earth
Fossil raindrops reveal Earth’s early atmosphere
News
Technology
Driverless cars ready to hit our roads
News
Space
Photon sieves make super-cheap space telescopes
News
Technology
New search tool to unlock Wikipedia
News
Technology
Crowdfunding successes show value of small donations
News
Technology
Bruisable gadgets heal themselves in the sun
News
Opinion
Health
Antibiotics are wonder drugs no more
The side effects of antibiotics may make the war on hostile bacteria trickier to wage than ever
Opinion
We can’t see the Milky Way’s woods for its trees
Opinion
Earth
How Canada’s green credentials fell apart
Opinion
Technology
Would you pay to block your own internet connection?
Opinion
Life
Galactic laser light show might lead us to aliens
Opinion
Features
Milky Way mysteries: Antimatter factory
Our galaxy produces 10 billion tonnes of antimatter every second. What could be pumping out so many positrons?
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Milky Way mysteries: Five oddities of our galaxy
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Milky Way mysteries: Our galaxy’s shape
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Milky Way mysteries: Disappearing dwarf galaxies
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Milky Way mysteries: Andromeda, our sibling rival
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Milky Way mysteries: Fast-moving clouds defy gravity
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Milky Way mysteries: Where are all the supernovae?
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Earth
Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world
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Health
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead
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Physics
Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained
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Culture
How robotics can offer clues to evolution
In Darwin's devices: What evolving robots can teach us about the history of life and the future of technology, John Long explores a new way to study evolution
Culture
Lifting the lid on Schrödinger’s world
Culture
Four billion years of Earth’s shifting seasons
Culture
The likelihood of waking up dead
Culture
