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7 May 2005

Issue 2498

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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.

Health

Going for gold: the perfect tan

Features
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Earth

It's crunch time in the gold mine

Features
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Life

Why don't we just kiss and make up?

Features
Lightning: Thunderbolts from space

Earth

Lightning: Thunderbolts from space

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.

Earth

The filthy truth about diesel 'mules'

LOADED down with goods and livestock, China's home-grown three-wheeled vehicles are a common sight chugging along rural roads. These so-called "Chinese rural vehicles" (CRVs) are often held up as a triumph of appropriate technology. But now it turns out they have a dirty secret. A new survey reveals that they present a worrying environmental problem …

News

Technology

Full-length movies hit cellphones

News

Space

New radio telescope is super-smart

News

Technology

Do not let a virus steal your songs

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

The speedy way to capture a city

News

Space

To conquer Venus, try a plane with a brain

News

Life

Hope for drug to boost IVF success

News

Life

Monkeys can read your intentions

News

Life

Monkeys look longer at copycats

News

Earth

Giant rock slab slid on hot lube

News

Space

Lost asteroid clue to Pioneer puzzle

News

Life

Does inner peace lead to longer life?

News

Earth

Legendary woodpecker makes a comeback

News

Life

Mysteriously shaped stones came from the kitchen

News

Earth

Chinese GM-crop study shows benefit to poor farmers

News

Health

Slacker genes await their chance

News

Earth

Virtual desert reveals secret life of sand dunes

News

Earth

Oceans are hiding climate time bomb

News

Life

One law rules dedicated followers of fashion

News

Health

Acupuncture's effects are not all in the mind

News

Physics

Superconductors have no need to be negative

News

Health

One weed takes on two killer cancers

News

Earth

Where will they go when the Sea rises?

News

Earth

Sea birds might pay for green electricity

News

Health

Ruling slams EU sugar subsidies

News

Health

New EU chemical safety law draws near

News

Life

DNA-based genealogy test reveals infertility

News

Earth

Active volcanoes may be under-watched

News

Space

UK's Skylark rocket finally retires

News

Health

Polio eradication takes a further knock

News

Earth

Cash crisis for Earth-science in US

News

60 Seconds

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

I AM struck by how many of my constituents complain at the number of occasions in recent years when drugs appear to have been withdrawn in some haste. But as Robert Matthews asks: "Can we ever be sure that medicines are safe before they hit the market?" ( New Scientist , 5 March, p 23). …

Opinion

Health

Interview: After the bomb

Opinion

Life

Birdwatchers – geeks of a feather?

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: A climate of injustice

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: How to stop another North Korea

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.

Health

Going for gold: the perfect tan

MENTION dance competitions to Kristy Bain, a 26-year-old advertising executive living in Sydney, Australia, and it brings back some bad memories. As a 10-year-old she regularly attended jazz ballet classes. Before her troupe took part in a major national contest, her teacher had the bright idea of buying some tanning pills and feeding them to …

Features

Earth

It's crunch time in the gold mine

Features

Life

Why don't we just kiss and make up?

Features

Earth

Lightning: Thunderbolts from space

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.

The Aventis Junior Science Prize shortlist 2005

THE shortlist for the Aventis Junior Science Book Prize is a decidedly mixed bag. First let's shake off Earthquake , in which you can fast forward through an earthquake. It's a neat idea, but poorly executed. The tone is patronising and the illustrations frankly amateurish. It is a relief, then, to open the Night Sky …

Books & Arts

Earth

Big Weather: Chasing tornadoes in the heart of America by Mark Svenvold

Books & Arts

Space

Fred Hoyle: A life in science by Simon Mitton and Fred Hoyle’s Universe, by Jane Gregory

Books & Arts

Earth

The River Runs Black by Elizabeth Economy

Books & Arts

Earth

Gaia: Medicine for an ailing planet by James Lovelock

Books & Arts

Life

The Human Story by Robin Dunbar

Books & Arts

The Aventis Science Prize shortlist 2005

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

NASA sued for moral damages THERE is never a dull moment at NASA. When the space agency isn't busy breaking in a new administrator, trying to get the space shuttle off the ground, or fixing the latest spacecraft malfunction, it has to cope with the likes of Marina Bai. The Russian astrologer is trying to …

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