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Greenhouse-gas monitoring

• Not hot air
  

  A new, private initiative should help show which gases come from where (4)

• • • The UN climate conference achieved some results, albeit modest ones (Nov 2010)
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  • • Countries' greenhouse-gas emissions (Nov 2010)
    • (4)
  • • Topic page: Environmental policy

Psychology

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  The power of posture

  How you hold yourself affects how you view yourself (21)

• • • Praying for your partner stops you straying (Aug 2010)
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  • • People hate generosity as much as they hate mean-spiritedness (Aug 2010)
    • (24)
  • • The rich are different from you and me. They are more selfish (Jul 2010)
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A new planet

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  Vulcan?

  Time to start giving extrasolar planets proper names (7)

• • • The discovery of planets around a distant star revives an old astronomical rule of thumb (Aug 2010)
    • Babbage
    • (28)
  • • Fly me (and the Chinese, Russians and Europeans) to Mars's moon (Nov 2010)
    • The World in 2011
  • • Topic page: Planetary science

Open-source software

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  Untangling code

  Much conventional wisdom about programs written by volunteers is wrong (11)

• • • Linux's Achilles heel (Nov 2010)
    • Babbage
    • (68)
  • • Data, transparency, governments, geeks (Feb 2010)
    • (12)
  • • Topic page: Open-source software

Secure documents

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  The Difference Engine: Faking it

  Finally, driving licences become really worth counterfeiting (10)

• • • Keeping evildoers out is no simple screening matter (Oct 2010)
    • (31)
  • • Topic page: Biometric technology

Einstein and car batteries

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  A spark of genius

  Without the magic of relativity, a car’s starter motor would not turn (23)

• • • A fancy clock shows that Einstein was right about time (Sep 2010)
    • (7)
  • • Ye cannae change the laws of physics. Or can you? (Aug 2010)
    • (130)
  • • Topic page: Albert Einstein

Freight transport

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  Put that in your pipe and poke it

  A visionary idea for modernising the goods-distribution network (15)

• • • A new type of dirigible could make it easier to deliver people and provisions to inaccessible places (Dec 2010)
    • (6)
  • • A private company successfully launches an orbital space capsule for the first time. Commercial opportunities beckon (Dec 2010)
    • Babbage
    • (32)
  • • Topic page: Freight transport

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