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5 March 2005

Issue 2489

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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.

Life

Histories: Hats off to Mr Henley

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.

Life

Teenagers special: Going all the way

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Teenagers special: Live now, pay later

Life

Teenagers special: Live now, pay later

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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.

Life

Teenagers special: Bully boys

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.

Life

Teenagers special: Brain storm

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.

Life

Higher laws and the mind-boggling complexity of life

Features
Teenagers special: The original rebels

Life

Teenagers special: The original rebels

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

Invention

THE ANTI-PIRACY REMIX How would you react if the voice of a record-company boss boomed through your speakers and berated you for pirating music? You may find out, if the music industry decides to adopt an invention by Mark Bocko and Zeljko Ignjatovic of New York city. With help from the US Air Force Research …

News

Technology

A cellphone is the only gadget you need

News

Technology

UK government acts over computer viruses

News

Technology

Charge a battery in just six minutes

News

Earth

Gold cure for heavy industry's hangover

News

Technology

Standard scale for computer security flaws

News

Technology

Phone viruses: how bad is it?

News

Space

Powerful radio pulses puzzle astronomers

News

Life

The life and death of ancient texts

News

Space

Hubble gyro trick could win telescope time

News

Life

Hormone-based cancer treatment affects male thinking

News

Life

HIV virus in sexual selection puzzle

News

Earth

Climate change blamed for shift in lake life

News

Physics

Double-slit effect seen over time too

News

Technology

Ripples of light might make you invisible

News

Life

Tracking linked to voles' sex upset

News

Life

Turning salamander larvae into killing machines

News

Health

Autism rises despite MMR ban in Japan

News

Earth

How we make food cost the earth

News

Physics

Blazing core closes gap on bubble fusion

News

Space

Twin Mars rovers in instrument mix-up

News

Life

DNA tests end for 9/11 victims

News

Life

Intimate piercings cause unreported health problems

News

Earth

Rare monkey suffers as protection is withdrawn

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

The hidden cost of fighting bioterror

News

Technology

Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon

News

Life

Musical notes leave a taste on the tongue

News

Soundbites

News

Space

'Missing' dark matter was there all along

News

Life

Ancient bacteria woken from deep Alaskan sleep

News

Life

'Sperm clock' could pinpoint time of a rape

News

Health

Global tobacco treaty comes into force

News

Space

Supply rocket carries cameras for shuttle inspection

News

Space

Columbia crew member's diary survived disaster

News

Technology

An end to black box black-out

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.

Health

Medicine safety – a risk we have to swallow

IN THE red corner, big drug companies hell-bent on profit regardless of the consequences. In the blue corner, plucky safety regulators and scientists determined to uncover the truth about the drugs the companies are selling. If you believe everything you read, this is probably your view of the controversy over the safety of painkilling drugs …

Opinion

Editorial: The real cost of US biodefence

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Pain-maximising weapon could be abused

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Earth

Essay: Making a myth of climate change

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.

Life

Histories: Hats off to Mr Henley

ln the 1830s, nofashion-conscious woman ventured out of doors without her poke bonnet. Bonnets were big and growing bigger, with crowns built to accommodate increasingly elaborate hairdos and festooned with flowers, feathers and coloured ribbons. Butthestand-outfeature was the enormous brim, a rigid ruff of cotton orsilksticking up atan angle that defied both gravity and logic. …

Features

Life

Teenagers special: Going all the way

Features

Life

Teenagers special: Live now, pay later

Features

Life

Teenagers special: Bully boys

Features

Life

Teenagers special: Brain storm

Features

Life

Higher laws and the mind-boggling complexity of life

Features

Life

Teenagers special: The original rebels

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.

Life

The Knife Man by Wendy Moore

YOU might not fancy John Hunter as a housemate, but while he took delivery of bodies in baskets, or dissected a corpse in a back room, his wife happily entertained guests in the drawing room. The gruesome activities of the 18th century's most brilliant anatomist and surgeon rarely interfered with her "at homes", dinners and …

Books & Arts

Catastrophe: Risk and response by Richard Posner

Books & Arts

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations edited by William Bynum and Roy Porter

Books & Arts

Health

Bathsheba's Breast by James Olsen

Books & Arts

Life

The Kingdon Pocket Guide to African Mammals

Books & Arts

Life

Life's Solutions by Simon Conway Morris

Books & Arts

Coming up on the inside...

Careers

Life

Insights from Insects: What bad bugs can teach us

Books & Arts

Health

Trading the Genome: Investigating the commodification of bio-information by Bronwyn Parry

Books & Arts

Aliens: Why they are here by Bryan Appleyard

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

Snake liquid IS TESCO, the UK's most successful supermarket chain, encouraging its customers to buy snake oil? Well no, not exactly – just "snake liquid". When Jeff Brown was looking at Tesco's online shopping page at tesco.com, he noticed a section entitled Healthy Living, which directed him to the Nutri Centre. Here, he found a …

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