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9 July 2005

Issue 2507

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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.

Technology

Histories: Napoleon's crazy navy

Features
Music: The international language?

Life

Music: The international language?

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.

Space

Why stars go out in a blaze of glory

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.

Technology

Communication speed nears terminal velocity

Features
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Earth

Evolution: Blink and you'll miss it

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

No escape for the oil slick cheats

FINDING the tanker responsible for an oil spill can be surprisingly difficult. Malaysian officials are wrestling with the problem after a huge spill in a busy shipping route on 25 June left a 5-kilometre slick off the country's coast. A new software system developed in Australia could soon make the task easier. To identify the …

News

Earth

Gorilla deaths show tourists should keep their distance

News

Earth

String, mud and bamboo make a quake-proof house

News

Technology

Patents gagged in the name of national security

News

Technology

Supercomputing enigma

News

Technology

Why High-Definition TV will be transmitted in bits

News

Technology

Technology cannot stop suicide bombers

News

Technology

Webcrawling program completes crossword puzzles

News

Earth

Sea life in peril as oceans turn acid

News

Life

America colonised 40,000 years ago

News

Space

Space gas beats a maser rhythm

News

Earth

China's captive pandas in trouble

News

Health

Effective Parkinson's treatment halted over safety fears

News

Health

Leishmaniasis vaccine successful in dogs

News

Earth

Shrinking lotus cut down in its prime

News

Health

Anti-inflammatory drug may be ulcer free

News

Technology

Why computers are like the weather

News

Health

Bird flu may soon land in Europe and Australia

News

Life

Tasmanian devil's bite is the kiss of death

News

Life

Creationism special: Survival of the slickest

News

Space

Deep Impact strikes home

News

Life

Creationism special: A sceptic's guide to intelligent design

News

Health

Patent singles out Ashkenazi Jewish women

News

Life

New dolphin species officially recognised

News

Earth

Stark differences in African elephants' fates

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

'Operational complacency' led to missed nuclear leak

News

Earth

Colossal catfish caught and eaten in the Mekong river

News

Life

Creationism special: A battle for science's soul

News

Life

Too much TV is not that smart

News

Space

Has NASA struck oil on Titan?

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

Stop withholding tried and tested treatments

FEW scandals in science are more chilling than those in which patients have been subjected to risky medical experiments without their knowing it. It's a scenario that seems almost unthinkable in these days of ethics boards, oversight committees and whistle-blowers. Yet new research has lifted the lid on just such a scandal, and one that …

Opinion

Life

Creationism against Darwinism? No contest

Opinion

Health

Interview: Water, water everywhere

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.

Technology

Histories: Napoleon's crazy navy

The rumours began in 1798. France and Britain had been at war for five years and now the French army was massing on the Normandy coast. Surrounded by sea, the British had felt safe until now. But Napoleon Bonaparte, alias the Corsican Ogre, had found a way to transport his army of invasion across the …

Features

Life

Music: The international language?

Features

Space

Why stars go out in a blaze of glory

Features

Technology

Communication speed nears terminal velocity

Features

Earth

Evolution: Blink and you'll miss it

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.

Earth

On the trail of the ivory-billed woodpecker

THE story has all the features of a boys' adventure yarn. The ivory-billed woodpecker, the largest and most magnificent of its tribe, goes missing at the end of the second world war and is presumed extinct. But rumours persist that a few birds remain in the swampy forests of America's Deep South, like soldiers hiding …

Books & Arts

Earth

Climate Change in Prehistory by William J Burroughs

Books & Arts

The Drug Trial by Miriam Shuchman

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Psychrophile

Regulars

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

Those amazing tachyons YET more from the wonderful world of sciency-sounding plugs for unusual products and services. The School of Awakening in Chulmleigh, Devon, UK, informs us promisingly on its website that: "In quantum physics, the energy that fills the cosmos is called zero-point energy." It then launches into hitherto untrodden realms of knowledge with …

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