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16 April 2005

Issue 2495

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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: Pyramids of dew

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

Wilderness lost: Battles in Alaska

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

Kicking up a storm with the cloud seeders

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

Filthy friends and the rise of allergies

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

A new kind of alchemy

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

Software killed the radio star

TWICE a week, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson co-host an internet radio talk show. No big deal. What is a big deal is that Holtz lives in California while Hobson lives in the Netherlands. And neither has access to a radio studio. Yet with a couple of PCs, a broadband connection and a fashionable piece …

News

Technology

ID row bad news for transatlantic travellers

News

Technology

The clock that wakes you when you are ready

News

Technology

World's fastest transistor revealed

News

Technology

Underwater drones break depth record

News

Technology

New alloy vastly improves radiation shielding

News

Technology

At last, a scanner that sees it all

News

Technology

Invention

News

Earth

Earth really was one big snowball

News

Life

Metaphor-processing area of the brain identified

News

Technology

Remote-controlled fly is steered by laser

News

Health

Cannabis may help keep arteries clear

News

Earth

People, not climate, may have killed the mammoths

News

Life

Fish tune into the sounds of the reef

News

Health

Antibody treatment raises hope in Alzheimer's fight

News

Life

Play fighters do not win in later life

News

Earth

Was hydrogen the bringer of life on Earth?

News

Life

Risk-taking boys do not get the girls

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Asteroid bombardment left Mars fit for life

News

Space

Still in the dark over missing matter

News

Health

DNA sequencing race hots up

News

Earth

Sports events leave a giant 'ecological footprint'

News

Health

'Wrong' genes may raise AIDS risk for millions

News

Health

Paralysed dogs regain movement

News

Earth

Cities may be abandoned as salt water invades

News

Earth

UN may throw lifeline to Darwin's paradise

News

Killer virus claims more lives

News

Health

Cannabis and schizophrenia link blurs further

News

Earth

World's largest iceberg on the move again

News

Earth

US nuclear power plants vulnerable to attack

News

Earth

Disused oil rigs are havens for marine life

News

Life

Tracing the genetic tracks of global colonisation

News

Life

Will cancer vaccine get to all women?

News

60 Seconds

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.

Space

Westminster diary

THE failure of the Mars lander Beagle 2 was due to "cock-ups and conspiracy", said a New Scientist editorial (12 February, p 5). I asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Patricia Hewitt, what had been learned from the mission. She replied that she and her advisers considered that in many ways it …

Opinion

Humans losing out to Africa's big game industry

Opinion

Physics

Essay: Unifying the universe

Opinion

Earth

The beauty of wind farms

Opinion

Health

Bring back bugs to finish off allergies

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Cervical cancer vaccine prompts needless protests

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: Pyramids of dew

The Black Sea port of Feodosia, in what is now Ukraine, is a place of dark secrets. One of Europe's oldest towns, it has been home to Greeks and Genoese, Tartars and Armenians. In the Middle Ages, it housed one of Europe's biggest slave markets, selling Ukrainians to Egypt. The Black Death entered Europe when …

Features

Earth

Wilderness lost: Battles in Alaska

Features

Earth

Kicking up a storm with the cloud seeders

Features

Health

Filthy friends and the rise of allergies

Features

Physics

A new kind of alchemy

Features

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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.

Physics

England's Leonardo by Allan Chapman

WHO is "England's Leonardo"? Robert Hooke is who. It might be pushing it a bit to rank him with da Vinci, but he was certainly a versatile genius who has not had the recognition he deserves. Allan Chapman has written a biography rich in detail; it needs concentrated reading and an ability to keep the …

Books & Arts

Søren Kierkegaard, a biography by Joakim Garff

Books & Arts

Life

Current reads of archaeologist Francis Pryor

Books & Arts

Life

Current reads of archaeologist Maisie Taylor

Books & Arts

Life

Adapting Minds: Evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature by David Buller

Books & Arts

Physics

Galileo Galilei: When the world stood still by Atle Næss

Books & Arts

Physics

What the bleep do we know? A film directed by Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente

Books & Arts

Physics

Albert Einstein: Historic recordings

Books & Arts

Regulars

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After-breakfast reading HAVE you finished your breakfast? Good. Then you'll be able to contemplate what might lie behind this early candidate for best paper title of the year: "Antioxidant capacity of boar seminal plasma," by Marta Hernandez and colleagues and published in Reproduction, Fertility and Development . And Ed Yong provides another contender from the …

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