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10 September 2005

Issue 2516

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Cellphones at 35,000 feet

Technology

Cellphones at 35,000 feet

Features
How to defeat (and eat) invading species

Earth

How to defeat (and eat) invading species

Features
Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming

Earth

Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming

Features
Comet tails of the unexpected

Space

Comet tails of the unexpected

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.

Technology

Polymer breakthrough to boost smart drugs

SMART plastic films programmed to release a precise sequence of drugs are poised to revolutionise drug delivery thanks to a breakthrough in polymer chemistry. The films could be used to coat implants such as artificial hips and tissue scaffolds to deliver phased shots over a period of hours or weeks. Simple drug-releasing coatings are used …

News

Space

Gyro-juggling extends Hubble's life

News

Technology

London-based social workers go wireless

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

Ant logic makes sense in space

News

Technology

ID revolution – prepare to meet the new you

News

Technology

Criminals foiled by quartz in soil

News

Health

Common viruses have Achilles heel

News

Earth

Himalayan snow may save China from typhoons

News

Life

Bug commits suicide to save its buddies

News

Space

Squashed asteroid has planet-like qualities

News

Earth

Siberian blast led to mass extinction

News

Life

Dose of worms may ease asthma

News

Life

Grasshoppers brainwashed into suicide by a worm

News

Health

'Backwards' DNA may play significant role

News

Health

Safer wheats could ease gluten grief

News

Earth

Rebuilding New Orleans' natural defences

News

Life

Television shows scramble forensic evidence

News

Earth

Dental records beat DNA in tsunami IDs

News

Health

Reports tallies the true fallout from Chernobyl

News

Space

Ocean floor simulates lunar conditions

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

The day New Orleans' luck ran out

News

Health

Toxins transferred to unborn children

News

Space

Mystery glitch prompts Mars orbiter shutdown

News

Health

BSE may have come from dead people

News

Earth

International meeting sparks hope for great apes

News

US nuclear weapons labs poorly protected

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.

US science under political siege

TO UNDERSTAND the troubling schism that has emerged between the US Republican party and the nation's scientific community, look no farther than the senate majority leader Bill Frist. Frist is a medical doctor, a heart surgeon, and yet he has become notorious for abusing medical science in the interests of politics. Not only did he …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Disasters are always in the making

Opinion

Life

The glamour of evolutionary psychology

Opinion

Features

Cellphones at 35,000 feet

Technology

Cellphones at 35,000 feet

IT WAS just another flight for the nine passengers flying from Palmerston North to Christchurch, New Zealand, on the night of Friday 6 February 2003. As the aircraft approached its destination, the darkness and bad weather meant the pilot of the small aircraft, a Piper Navajo Chieftain, was flying the landing approach on instruments. Without …

Features

Earth

How to defeat (and eat) invading species

Features

Earth

Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming

Features

Space

Comet tails of the unexpected

Features

More

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Physics

Coincidences, Chaos and All That Math Jazz by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird

I ONCE had a maths teacher who used to throw books at us. If only this had been one of them. Math Jazz is, as its name suggests, a medley of absorbing mathematical diversions, from two professors who know how to hold an audience. Their narrative is full of arch humour and the maths is …

Books & Arts

Space

The Planets by Dava Sobel

Books & Arts

Northern lights

Careers

Earth

The word: Danakil

Regulars

Technology

The Fruits of War by Michael White

Books & Arts

Life

Designs on Nature: Science and democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Nanoplane AIRBUS "conceived the A350-800 to dramatically increase the aircraft payload-range", the firm says in a magazine advert. But the next bit made Francis Quinn splutter: "Flying 300 nm further with space for 30 more passengers..." "I am not sure," Quinn muses, "whether your average passenger in first, business or cattle class would really notice …

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Regulars

Letters

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