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Health

Food for thought: Eat your way to dementia

Life

The shape of life: Biology’s biggest mystery

Technology

Net worth: Reclaiming our personal data

Table of contents

News

Turing machine pops up in messed-up mathematical world

A team in Japan has brought one of Alan Turing's most famous ideas to life, while Manchester in the UK has dedicated its annual gay pride parade to Alan Turing

Health

Mental health the winner after Breivik ‘sane’ ruling

Space

Mars rover beams back eerie human voice – and postcard

Space

Neil Armstrong: First moonwalker and cool-headed nerd

Health

Lance Armstrong decision is bad news for drugs cheats

60 Seconds

Earth

US energy independence by 2020 is a pipe dream

Health

Teenage cannabis use leads to cognitive decline

Earth

Arctic ice low heralds end of 3-million-year cover

Earth

What ice-free summers will mean for Arctic life

Humans

Location of the mind remains a mystery

Health

Can we deter athletes who self-harm to win?

Space

Giant fractals are out – the universe is a big smoothie

Health

Cyborg tissue is half living cells, half electronics

Health

Genome sequencing used to control hospital infection

Health

Protein discovery could lead to ‘genomic debuggers’

Life

Cool clue to body clock’s workings

Environment

Slugs benefit from getting stabbed while having sex

Space

Astrophile: Red giant and the exploding dwarf

Physics

Mirrors take root in pitch-black nanotube forest

Health

Epigenetics gives clues to human cancer susceptibility

Health

Sleep your way to greater knowledge

Environment

Gibbons on helium sing like sopranos

Earth

Waste water harnessed to make electricity and plastics

Technology

Harness unused smartphone power for a computing boost

Earth

Record haul of uranium harvested from seawater

Technology

Sharp-eared glasses let deaf people ‘see’ sounds

Technology

One Per Cent

Technology

Smartphones put the app into physics apparatus

Opinion

Health

Brain diabetes: the ultimate food scare

Big trouble lies ahead if Alzheimer's is proven to be a form of diabetes

Earth

Arctic melt, smash and grab ahead

Good data habits need to be taught

Earth

If 2013 breaks heat record, how will deniers respond?

Physics

Securing the legacy of the world’s greatest geek

Humans

Destroying the powerful and destructive race construct

Analysis

Technology

FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project

The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics

Aperture

Landsat captures impact of deforestation in Brazil

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science

Features

Health

Food for thought: Eat your way to dementia

Sugar junkies take note: a calorific diet isn't just bad for your body, it may also trigger Alzheimer's disease

Life

The shape of life: Biology’s biggest mystery

Technology

Net worth: Reclaiming our personal data

Culture

Space

Satellite time capsule for life on Earth

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

Humans

Babies without sex or pregnancy?

Life

Retracing the stardust trail

More

Enigma Number 1713

Regulars

Feedback: Higgs boson delivered by truck

Higgs haulage, the variable likelihood of dying, all the fun of the apocalypse, and more

This Week’s Letters

Shocking behaviour

Breathtaking pursuit

Jarring observation

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