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16 July 2005

Issue 2508

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Earth

Histories: Now you see it, now you don't

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Health

Leprosy: The plague that will not die

Features
Brain-chilling chip to switch off seizures

Technology

Brain-chilling chip to switch off seizures

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

Top 5 cosmic threats to life on Earth

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Novel warhead may bust the deepest bunkers

DESPITE the intelligence failure that led the Bush administration to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with the development of technologies designed to destroy WMDs. Its latest idea is a bomb that can destroy deeply buried WMD storage bunkers by cutting through earth and concrete inside a bubble of …

News

Technology

Switching off TV transmitters, ready or not

News

Life

Sperm reveal hidden teamwork talents

News

Life

Superbugs' power lies in their colour

News

Space

Do cosmic rays ever exceed the limit?

News

Health

'Oestrogen soup' linked to cancer

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

The power to follow your every move

News

Technology

Europe says no to software patents

News

Technology

Roaches get a robot buddy

News

Earth

Why big beasts vanished when Australians arrived

News

Technology

Nanowires may provide innards for quantum computers

News

Health

New drug improves attention and reactions

News

Life

Deep-sea fish lured by red-light district

News

Soundbites

News

Life

New pig vaccine kills brain invaders

News

Earth

G8 deal good for Africa, falls short on climate

News

Health

Blood-pressure drugs could help fight flu

News

Technology

Petrol workers accident prone on drive home

News

Life

Enigmatic fossils shed light on early evolution

News

Technology

Cutting edge technology could reveal bombers

News

Life

9000-year-old man released

News

Space

Shuttle crew to test puncture repair kits

News

Health

China denies bird flu research findings

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

The A-bomb: 60 years on, is the world any safer?

News

Health

European court bans 'megadose' supplements

News

Big pharmaceuticals buy more influence than ever

News

Earth

Long stormy summer to come in US

News

Technology

Hands-free cellphones carry car crash risk too

News

Opinion

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Life

Perspectives: Moved by the music

I AM not musical. At least, that is what I was told by my schoolteachers and have believed for most of my life. But since I started thinking about what music is for and how our capacity for music evolved, I am not so sure. True, I struggle to clap in rhythm, and I certainly …

Opinion

Healing London after terror attacks

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: G8 missed chance on climate change

Opinion

Editorial: No winners in a nuclear arms race

Opinion

Life

Conserving endangered species in a war zone

Opinion

Life

Interview: The darkest seduction

Opinion

Features

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Earth

Histories: Now you see it, now you don't

In the autumn of 1879, a canoe crept into a remote Alaskan bay. After days of rain, the weather had relented, revealing spectacle after spectacle: towering mountains, green waters and icebergs sparkling like "the jewel-paved streets of the New Jerusalem". Most impressive of all were the glaciers, fed by distant heights and flowing far into …

Features

Health

Leprosy: The plague that will not die

Features

Technology

Brain-chilling chip to switch off seizures

Features

Space

Top 5 cosmic threats to life on Earth

Features

More

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Time to go it alone?

WHEN Crispin Gardiner attends international meetings he relishes being asked where he works: "They are amazed when I tell them what I do, and wish they could do the same." Gardiner, a theoretical physicist who studies the intriguing state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, doesn't work for a university, a prestigious institute or …

Careers

Round Up

Careers

Kiwis reach for higher fruit

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

Etheric DNA FOR reasons best known to herself, Laura Emery was browsing for DNA on eBay. To her alarm, she came across the Lifetech DNA Activator CD. One lucky bidder obtained, for $14.95, the power to "activate 100 per cent of your 2-strand DNA, plus 10 additional strands!" Boring old conventional medicine would regard even …

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