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5 February 2005

Issue 2485

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Histories: Portrait of a lady

Features
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Earth

Journey to the centre of a quake

Features
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Health

Cannabis: Prescribing the miracle weed

Features
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Physics

The final unravelling of the universe

Features

Table of contents

News

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Project Honeypot aims to trap spammers

A BLOW-BY-BLOW account of how one of the world's most prolific senders of spam email was tracked down and prosecuted had an audience of spam fighters on the edge of their seats last week. After years developing anti-spam technology and drafting legislation to outlaw spammers, the delegates at MIT's annual Spam Conference in Boston were …

News

Life

Horse handedness could lead to safer bets

News

Technology

Mirror that reflects your future self

News

Technology

Defending civil aircraft 'may be too costly'

News

Technology

New camcorder offers easy slow-motion

News

Space

Pluto's moon a chip off the old block?

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

Pollution fighter turns clot buster

News

Technology

Virtual surround-sound tailored to individual ears

News

Technology

Parents may join fight against online movie piracy

News

Life

Marine worms chisel their way through mud

News

Life

Why insects resist a breath of fresh air

News

Health

Bacteria death reduces human hopes of immortality

News

Life

Radiation turns earthworms on

News

Earth

Primordial seas too saline for early evolution

News

Space

Radio blast adds sparkle to polar light show

News

Space

Massive exploding stars create rare magnetars

News

Physics

How 3D space survived the great destruction

News

Earth

Bonobos dying as they flee hunters

News

Earth

Biodiversity's golden rules may not work

News

Earth

Coral reefs create clouds to control the climate

News

Earth

Hungry algae plunged Earth into deep freeze

News

Earth

Should we save Earth's biodiversity hotspots?

News

Health

Flu shot shortage turns into a glut

News

Health

Blood test for schizophrenia draws nearer

News

Health

Early detection of Alzheimer's with bio-barcoding

News

Life

Dyslexia slows drivers' reactions

News

Health

Goat found infected with BSE

News

Space

NASA warned not to rely on computer models

News

Space

60 seconds

News

Earth

Goodness of organic food harmed by processing

News

Earth

List of top green countries revealed

News

Health

Rare fungal infection could strike tsunami survivors

News

Earth

Good harvest, but Ethiopia is still hungry

News

Earth

Arctic ozone hole could reach record size

News

Life

Sex hormones plunge in downtrodden females

News

Milky Way's supermassive black hole is snoozing

News

Opinion

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Life

Humans beings are actors, not puppets

THE Bible says you have free will and you can choose to do whatever you like, but if you make a choice God doesn't approve of, He'll clobber you. Most scientists, on the other hand, argue that what you do is nothing but the end result of a long chain of causes over which you …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Bird flu outbreak could kill 1.5 billion people

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Interview: Nothing but the tooth

Opinion

Features

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Histories: Portrait of a lady

John Hunter, the great 18th-century anatomist and surgeon, collected people. Most were unaware they had been collected, forthey were dead and destined – at least in part – to feature in Hunter's museum. There, the man with the insatiable curiosity about the human body had amassed a prodigious collection of bottles and jars containing anatomical …

Features

Earth

Journey to the centre of a quake

Features

Health

Cannabis: Prescribing the miracle weed

Features

Physics

The final unravelling of the universe

Features

More

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Physics

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

STRANGE as the idea of other universes is, it has become almost commonplace in physics. Parallel worlds are central to one interpretation of quantum mechanics. Inflation versions of the cosmological theory also imply that there is an infinite tree of branching universes. Cosmologists have even suggested that there could be parallel universes a millimetre away …

Books & Arts

Astro Turf by M G Lord

Books & Arts

Earth

Global Warming by Mark Maslin

Books & Arts

An Intelligent Person's Guide to Genetics by Adrian Woolfson

Books & Arts

Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb

Books & Arts

A scientist's guide to Scotland

Careers

Earth

The Volcano Adventure Guide by Rosaly Lopes

Books & Arts

Earth

Aliens of the Deep 3D, a film directed by James Cameron

Books & Arts

Dark Hero of the Information Age: In search of Norbert Wiener by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman

Books & Arts

Regulars

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Feedback

Strange paper titles READERS often point out the strange titles that grace some scientific papers. We have several favourites, but possibly the most bizarre reached us courtesy of Seranne Howis: "The idiot's guide to the zen of likelihood in a nutshell in seven days for dummies, unleashed" has the helpful subtitle "A gentle introduction, for …

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