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6 August 2005

Issue 2511

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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

The 'blink comparator', as Shakespeare liked it

Features
Under the knife, under hypnosis

Life

Under the knife, under hypnosis

Features
The prime number hunters close in

Physics

The prime number hunters close in

Features
Turned off by daytime driving lights

Technology

Turned off by daytime driving lights

Features
Life underground, down under

Earth

Life underground, down under

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.

Soundbites

"The elephants do not like the smell of red pepper and after a while they turn tail." Kasereka Kambere Mwinbi of the WWF on planting fences of chilli plants around crops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ward off marauding elephants (AFP, 29 July) "It can take some of the dirtiest, nastiest water …

News

Earth

Drought bumps up global thermostat

News

Life

Out of eggs? Get more from your marrow

News

Space

Our solar system just got bigger

News

Health

Secrets of the A-bomb survivors

News

Technology

Robots find their feet with help of sonar

News

Technology

Bubble power holds key to micro-pumps

News

Technology

On-the-spot blood test for brain damage

News

Technology

Why we all need pornography

News

Space

Do you want to buy a spaceship?

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Computers learn a new language

News

Health

Infertility risk for circumcised girls

News

Earth

Planes go greener by shifting altitude

News

Earth

How whaling ban made life hard for hungry orcas

News

Life

Baby dinosaur crawled like humans

News

Earth

Earth's gassy gift to the Moon

News

Life

First canine clone is a chip off the old block

News

Space

Sun's loops tell a tangled tale

News

Earth

Warming shock written in ice

News

Life

Fighting fat with fake memories

News

Life

Hidden fear of outsiders leads to racial bias

News

Space

NASA still battling foam risk

News

Earth

Monsoon floods hit Mumbai

News

60 Seconds

News

Iran announces resumption of nuclear processing

News

Life

Circumcision protects men against HIV

News

Life

Bush besieged over stem cell research

News

Earth

How will new energy pact affect Kyoto?

News

Health

Numbers of Australian smokers in steep decline

News

Space

Stunning lake pictured in Martian crater

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

Embracing the stem cell revolution

WHEN I am asked why I spearheaded the campaign to advance research on human stem cells in California, I often think back to a conversation I had in July 2004 with Paul Berg, a Nobel laureate for his work on recombinant DNA. It was four months before California was due to vote on Proposition 71, …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Bird flu – ready or not?

Opinion

Health

Interview: Come eat with me

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

The 'blink comparator', as Shakespeare liked it

Venture inside the Folger Shakespeare Library, built by oilman Henry Clay Folger in Washington DC to house his immense collection of rare books, and you step back in time: the walls are panelled in dark wood and stained glass windows filter light upon hushed readers and ancient tomes. But hidden in a supply room, shoved …

Features

Life

Under the knife, under hypnosis

Features

Physics

The prime number hunters close in

Features

Technology

Turned off by daytime driving lights

Features

Earth

Life underground, down under

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.

From the ashes

This year is the 25th anniversary of an event that frightened the world: the eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state. The regeneration of the region's wildlife has been closely studied, as editors Virginia Dale and colleagues show in Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St Helens (Springer, £23). It is a …

Books & Arts

Unblocking the drugs pipeline

Careers

Follow that fish

Books & Arts

Blood and Oil by Michael Klare

Books & Arts

Physics

The word: Instanton

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

The Flying Spaghetti Monster THE board for Beebe School District in Arkansas voted on 12 July to remove from textbooks stickers promoting an "intelligent designer" over evolution. Feedback wonders if they were influenced by an open letter to the State Board of Education in neighbouring Kansas circulated by Bobby Henderson, a "concerned citizen". "Let us …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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