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How to swallow nanofood

EDITORIAL

The food industry is in danger of repeating the mistakes it made with genetic modification

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Slaying stereotypes about video games

Flash of deception

“Instead of engaging with the public on the potential of nanofoods, the industry has gone silent”

INNOVATION Teaching

robots some manners

For robots, unlike computers, faster is not always better. Roboticists are learning to make their creations behave more like humans even if that means the robots must lose some of their efficiency

GREEN MACHINE Sensors that

save energy for the apathetic

Better efficiency in the office could cut a building’s energy use by 40 per cent: a network of sensors could kill

the lights or turn down the air conditioning for us

ZOOLOGGER The glow-in-the-

dark shark vanishes If you’re trying to hide, surely the last thing you want to do is glow. But if you’re a velvet belly lantern shark, it’s a bright idea

VIRTUAL REALITY The real

Avatar: body transfer turns

men into girls Last time you checked you were a conservatively dressed

man. But you look down and notice that you now have the legs of a 10-year-old girl and appear to be wearing a skirt. We report on the first experiment to show that body ownership can be transferred to an entirely virtual body

BUMPOLOGY From earthworm-

brain to reptilian, then human

It is a highly contentious question: when does a fetus become conscious, if at all? And if a premature baby is conscious, what does that mean for

a fetus at the same stage? We examine the science of the fetal experience

PHYSICS High five! Physicists

create record ‘fat’ photon

A record-breaking five photons have been entangled in a special state with echoes of Schrödinger’s cat. Believe it or not, they could be useful in high-resolution imaging

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