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21 May 2005

Issue 2500

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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

Dinosaur special: Territories old and new

Features
Blasts from the past: Europe's Year of Awe

Earth

Blasts from the past: Europe's Year of Awe

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

Dinosaur special: The Reanimators

Features
The golden age of dinosaurs

Life

The golden age of dinosaurs

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

Dinosaur special: Extreme palaeontology

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

Dinosaur special: Welcome to Dinotopia

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

The robot army that thinks for itself

James McLurkin has a novel party trick – he can coax 20 small autonomous wheeled robots to form herds, disperse again, wheel in neat circles, sing a harmonic rendition of the theme from Star Wars , and automatically recharge from a power station. McLurkin, a postgraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is trying …

News

Technology

Particle smasher gets a super-brain

News

Life

Humans took the scenic route out of Africa

News

Life

Red is the colour if winning is your game

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

UK's nuclear waste may go up in smoke

News

Life

Kebab-meat rodent gives birth to new family

News

Earth

Will global warming impact tourism hotspots?

News

Life

Female spiders try eating mate even before sex

News

Life

Scared, but you don't know why

News

Life

Noise outside schools hurts academic performance

News

Life

Earliest lichen fossils found in China

News

Life

Bibles dazzle with colour on the cheap

News

Space

Tempestuous young Sun kept Earth in its place

News

Technology

Bones are shocked into growth

News

Earth

Fish on the move as North Sea hots up

News

Health

Will the fat vaccine help dieters shed pounds?

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Giant plane raises fear of medical emergencies

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

The most accurate clock of all time

News

Technology

Woman fitted with world's first 'bionic' device

News

Technology

Carbon nanotubes used in computer and TV screens

News

Technology

Firm sees red over blue LED invention claims

News

Technology

Heart patient has first turbocharger fitted

News

Health

Medical journals may need radical rethink

News

Earth

The poop hits the turbines in Canada

News

Technology

US set for ID card implementation

News

Earth

Chernobyl's link to thyroid cancer confirmed

News

Health

Sect leaders jailed for stopping polio vaccine

News

Life

Controversial study warns of rural cellphone risk

News

Earth

Do not try helping tsunami-hit corals

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.

The great ecology challenge

SINCE the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the environment has become a major concern for people across the world. Climate warming, the pollution of freshwater reserves, the destruction of habitats and the disappearance of many living species have made us realise that far from freeing humankind from nature, our extraordinary economic growth has given …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Downsize me

Opinion

Editorial: Columnist Tam Dalyell retires

Opinion

Humans

Tam Dalyell: The end of an era at New Scientist

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Physics

Interview: A step in space-time

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

Dinosaur special: Territories old and new

One of the most astounding finds from the new era of dinosaur discovery is Mei long , the "soundly sleeping dragon" from Yixian in China. It is one of the few known fossils that preserves behaviour. Yixian has yielded hundreds of other incredible finds (see "Dinotopia") ; meanwhile, fossils from all over the world are …

Features

Earth

Blasts from the past: Europe's Year of Awe

Features

Life

Dinosaur special: The Reanimators

Features

Life

The golden age of dinosaurs

Features

Life

Dinosaur special: Extreme palaeontology

Features

Life

Dinosaur special: Welcome to Dinotopia

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.

Join the tea party

ONE of the oldest cities in the US, Boston is in the midst of a makeover. Construction cranes tower above streets paved with 18th-century brick, bulldozers are clearing the way for new buildings, while old factories are gutted and refitted with laboratory benches. Nearly two dozen life sciences buildings are in development or have recently …

Careers

New England

Careers

Gaining ground

Careers

Current reads of Patricia Murray, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in developmental biology at the University of Liverpool

Books & Arts

Current reads of Ralph Cicerone, atmospheric chemist

Books & Arts

Findings by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Books & Arts

Life

Dinosaurs of Italy by Cristiano Dal Sasso and Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, evolution and structure by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard Cifelli and Zhe-Xi Luo

Books & Arts

Life

True North by Bruce Henderson

Books & Arts

Life

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs by Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind

Books & Arts

Earth

The Earth and its minerals

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

Meeting Caesar IN THE course of writing an essay on the late Roman republic, Chris Carter started to describe a meeting of the Roman senate that took place on 3 December 63 BC. As soon as he typed this in, Word produced a pop-up asking if he would like to schedule a meeting for that …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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