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23 July 2005

Issue 2509

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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: The girl from the Seine

Features
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Technology

Soft cash in, hard cash out

Features
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Life

The perils of kids on speed

Features
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Health

Red alert: The war on tainted donated blood

Features
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Space

Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found

Features

Table of contents

News

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Space

NASA regroups under new boss Griffin

"THE idea of humans expanding our presence out into the solar system is the vision driving NASA," says Louis Friedman, president of the US-based Planetary Society. "It's about exploration, and always has been." It is also a vision President Bush has articulated for the US, arguing for human missions to the moon and Mars at …

News

Life

Creepy crawlies to explore other worlds

News

Life

New pope questioned over evolution

News

US to share nuclear technology with India

News

Earth

Congo park may lose World Heritage Site status

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Thriving ecosystem discovered under Antarctic ice

News

Health

Antidepressants barely better than placebos

News

Earth

Norwegian fjords join list of World Heritage Sites

News

Space

Blurred images fail to reveal comet crater

News

Technology

Details of US microwave-weapon tests revealed

News

Technology

How to beat spammers at their own game

News

Technology

'Bullet-time' effect seen in real-time games

News

Technology

Ear recognition may beat face biometrics

News

Technology

One screen, two different views

News

Technology

Paying through the mouth

News

Health

Prayer fails to help heart surgery patients

News

Health

Nerve stimulation prevents gut inflammation

News

Physics

Atom-hopping electrons have journey timed

News

Earth

Seabird guano creates toxic hotspots in Arctic

News

Life

Profligacy may be parasites' undoing

News

Earth

Mass extinction theory on the rocks

News

Space

Far-away maser to throw light on dark energy

News

Life

Why would a hamster need a horn?

News

Life

Monkeys reflect a degree of empathy

News

Space

Meteoroid impacts give facelifts to asteroids

News

Life

Love is a fight between the eyes and the nose

News

Earth

Moving whales across the world

News

Space

Has Huygens found life on Titan?

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind

News

Life

Paralysis anomaly sheds light on consciousness

News

Opinion

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Life

Turning ordinary people into suicide bombers

ASK someone to sketch a personality profile of a typical suicide bomber and the chances are it would not come close to describing the four young men who, it seems, blew themselves up in London two weeks ago. Even from their friends and families the refrain has been, "I can't believe he would have done …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: UK found wanting on energy efficiency

Opinion

With friends like these, who needs nuke treaties?

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Company of wolves

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: The girl from the Seine

A popular spectacle in late 19th-century Paris was the city morgue's display of unknown bodies fished out of the river Seine. It was staged in the hope that visitors might recognise someone. Before disposing of unclaimed corpses the morgue attendants would occasionally cast death masks from their heads. Such was the fate of one young …

Features

Technology

Soft cash in, hard cash out

Features

Life

The perils of kids on speed

Features

Health

Red alert: The war on tainted donated blood

Features

Space

Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found

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.

Ripe for investment

IF IT was situated anywhere else in the US, the Los Angeles life sciences industry might get a bit more recognition. But unfortunately for the biotech and pharmaceutical companies located there, they happen to sit between two of the US's leading life sciences hubs – the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego. So they …

Careers

Physics

The God Particle: A novel by Richard Cox

Books & Arts

Earth

Predicting the Weather, by Katharine Anderson

Books & Arts

A Californian coming of age

Careers

The word: Mouth feel

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback

Idyllic wild oats AN ADVERT is currently running on British television for a product aimed at the 1 in 10 men "over a certain age" who suffer from erectile dysfunction. For obvious reasons the advertising agency has decided to go for allegory when demonstrating the success of the product: the ad shows a couple strolling …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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