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Plasmodium vivax

• The other malaria
  

  Many people think of malaria as a single disease. It isn’t

• • • Malaria among birds is becoming more prevalent
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  • • Progress is being made in tackling malaria (Dec 2010)
    • Daily chart
    • (5)
  • • Topic page: Malaria

Combating addiction

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  Can a vaccine stop drug abuse?

  It may be possible to vaccinate people against addictive drugs (24)

• • • Using therapist-free therapy to treat addiction (Mar 2011)
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  • • Near misses could heighten gambling addiction (May 2010)
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  • • Topic page: Drug addiction

3D printing

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  An image of the future

  One of the biggest manufacturers in the world gives 3D printing a go (3)

• • • Three-dimensional printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things (Feb 2011)
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  • • Leader: How a new manufacturing technology will change the world (Feb 2011)
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  • • Topic page: Manufacturing

High-speed rail

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  The Difference Engine: Fast track to nowhere

  End of the line for California's proposed bullet train? - Babbage (63)

• • • Doubts about the business case are unlikely to derail high-speed trains in Britain (Mar 2011)
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  • • The train giants of France and Germany are at war over European high-speed rail (Aug 2010)
    • (23)
  • • Topic page: High-speed rail

Alternative medicine

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  Think yourself better

  Alternative medical treatments rarely work. But the placebo effect they induce sometimes does (71)

• • • Leader: Virtually all alternative medicine is bunk, but the placebo effect is rather interesting
    • (46)
  • • Should doctors give patients placebos? (Oct 2008)
    • (15)
  • • Topic page: Alternative medicine

Electric vehicles

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  Horsepower v cash cows

  How to use an electric car to turn a profit (48)

• • • A rash of new electric sports cars shows how cheap manufacturing techniques will bring new competitors into carmaking
    • Babbage
    • (26)
  • • A powerful experimental battery that can be recharged completely in minutes (Mar 2011)
    • (43)
  • • Topic page: Electric vehicles

The science of teaching

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  An alternative vote

  Applying science to the teaching of science (44)

• • • Making something hard to read means it is more likely to be remembered (Oct 2010)
    • (10)
  • • It sounds like a cop-out, but the future of schooling may lie with video games (Sep 2009)
    • (21)
  • • Topic page: Teaching

Sense perception

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  Oh my ears and whiskers!

  Pinnipeds are able to distinguish an object’s shape by its wake (7)

• • • A new way to describe a fragrance (Dec 2010)
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  • • Computer vision is improving, in part by aping the natural sort (Oct 2010)
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  • • Body, mind and genes all play a role in influencing the perception of pain (Mar 2010)
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Computer processors

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  The Difference Engine: Intel left outside

  Despite its clever processor chips, Intel has failed to crack the mobile market - Babbage (15)

• • • Flexible circuits that can bend and stretch with their surroundings (Mar 2011)
    • (2)
  • • The rise of programmable processors (Nov 2010)
    • (2)
  • • Topic page: Computer hardware

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