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27 August 2005

Issue 2514

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Editor's picks

The rise of the house father

Life

The rise of the house father

Features
Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Earth

Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Features
Entropy: The new order

Physics

Entropy: The new order

Features
Keeping your nerves in order

Health

Keeping your nerves in order

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.

Health

Passive smoking primes children for addiction

SMOKERS may huff about their rights to indulge their puffing habit, but they could be harming those around them even more than we thought. Inhaling passive smoke may physically prime some children to become smoking addicts later in life. There is already growing evidence that second-hand smoke is not only harmful in itself, but that …

News

Life

More animals join the learning circle

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Crop revival for Aceh after the Tsunami

News

Health

'Mad ewes' give birth to BSE lambs

News

Life

Salt source for ancient Chinese chefs revealed

News

Space

Black holes burp on first starry meal

News

Life

Placebos trigger an opioid hit in the brain

News

Life

Are you seeing what I am seeing?

News

Life

Quick fix for kidney failure proves puzzling

News

Life

African frog hunts with eyes wide shut

News

Life

Humans beings are not natural gamblers

News

Health

TB could make a European comeback

News

Life

Many embryonic stem cells from one embryo

News

Earth

Famous Moon photo to be recreated

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Trauma of war hits troops years later

News

Health

Drugs giants in the firing line

News

Life

Wolves win the right to roam

News

Health

Polio will not be eradicated this year

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Stopping the slaughter of innocent pedestrians

News

Life

How card sharps fool the best of us

News

Technology

Your very own personal search engine

News

Space

Satellite imagery locates mass graves

News

Technology

'Singing' keeps aircraft in the sky

News

Technology

Scale buildings in a single bound

News

Technology

US on course for shrink-to-fit laser

News

Earth

No more sex for weeds on the farm

News

Health

'Interfering' RNA helps monkeys recover from SARS

News

Earth

Falling stars may cause rainy days

News

Life

Tall women are more career minded

News

Life

Is no-frills DNA the key to success?

News

Health

Olive oil's benefits left on the shelf

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

Editorial: Help soldiers out of harm's way

IS THE Iraq war another Vietnam? The debate will run and run, but on one level at least the answer is clear. The psychological damage done to American soldiers in Iraq is as bad, in terms of the proportion affected and the degree of harm, as anything Vietnam veterans endured. We have known about post-traumatic …

Opinion

Life

Is science held up by language shortfalls?

Opinion

Life

Saddle up the cloned sport horses

Opinion

Earth

Feared superweeds not so super after all

Opinion

Features

The rise of the house father

Life

The rise of the house father

HE used to get up at 6.30 am so he could shower, shave, put on his suit and be at his desk by 8. His day still starts at the crack of dawn. He still works for the most discerning and demanding of clients. But nowadays there is no suit, no desk and no real …

Features

Earth

Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Features

Physics

Entropy: The new order

Features

Health

Keeping your nerves in order

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.

Recipe for a test tube generation

WITH a single advertising slogan in the 1930s – "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry" – US giant DuPont captured the public's attention and defined the heyday of a science. But those words have lost their impact today, and the chemistry sector has been having a hard time recently. Annual capital spending by major US …

Careers

Health

The word of the week is Zapoï

Regulars

Technology

Electrospun nanofibre garments fit perfectly

Books & Arts

Earth

An Ocean Odyssey by Stephen Wong and Takako Uno

Books & Arts

Space

Astronomical Enigmas by Mark Kidger

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

Fruit fly follies WHILE many geneticists make do with unpronounceable strings of letters and digits to name their discoveries, by tradition fruit-fly folk get to call them what they like. One of their better-known examples is Sonic Hedgehog , which came about when researchers ran out of real hedgehog names for a family of genes …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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