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17 September 2005

Issue 2517

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Histories: Egil the enigmatic

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Earth

Big ideas: Tectonics

Features
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Physics

Big ideas: Science

Features
Pulling the blue iguana from the brink

Earth

Pulling the blue iguana from the brink

Features
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Earth

Big ideas: Climate change

Features
The race to revisit the ocean depths

Life

The race to revisit the ocean depths

Features
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Physics

Big ideas: Relativity

Features
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Physics

Big ideas: The theory of everything

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Physics

Big ideas: Chaos

Features
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Physics

Big ideas: Risk

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Physics

Big ideas: Quantum mechanics

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Life

Big ideas: Evolution

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Physics

Big ideas: The big bang

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The world's 10 biggest ideas

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The world's 10 biggest ideas

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

World Cup to kick off 3D television

VIEWERS of next year's soccer World Cup in Germany could find themselves watching the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D television system. The German firm Grundig has developed a system capable of displaying 3D pictures to people sitting in different parts of a room, without the need for …

News

Technology

How to spot early signs of arthritis

News

Technology

Backpack generates power as you walk

News

Technology

Motorcyclists could be saved by airbags

News

Technology

New robot hand is even more human

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Privacy and prejudice: whose ID is it anyway

News

Life

Stiff upper lips may impair memories

News

Space

Mix 'n' match may explain comet's muddy surface

News

Life

Low calcium eggs show their spots

News

Life

'Shushing' bacteria may keep veggies fresh

News

Life

Gauging age: a historical bone of contention

News

Life

Rasta lends its name to a third type of cannabis

News

Technology

Tuned in for a nanoscale radio

News

Health

Crop spray may fight cancer too

News

Earth

Dune tunes...the greatest hits

News

Space

Dark-matter basketballs could explain a lot

News

Space

Space billiards to head off asteroid collisions

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Flood warnings for the Yangtze will save lives

News

Life

Human brains are still evolving

News

60 Seconds

News

How far should fingerprints be trusted?

News

Health

US death rate falls, but not for all

News

Life

Double advance in UK embryo research

News

Health

US rules for testing pesticides on people

News

Space

New entrant in the space race

News

Health

UN aid hampered by measurement techniques

News

Animal activists may have hindered company float

News

Space

Is the 10th planet a cigar?

News

Opinion

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Technology

How to save the Dead Sea?

"A SEA of opportunity." The giant blue advertising hoarding at the edge of the road that descends from the bustle of Amman to the calm of the Dead Sea says it all. Amid the daily turmoil of the Middle East, something remarkable happened this July. After three years of negotiation, the governments of Israel and …

Opinion

Editorial: The myth of fingerprints

Opinion

Interview: Science and technology philanthropists

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.

Health

Histories: Egil the enigmatic

Egil Skallagrimsson was one of the greatest Viking heroes. A poet at three and a killer at seven, he was a man who drank prodigiously and wielded his battleaxe with fearful force. Egil was big and brave, an adventurous traveller who must have seemed immortal. For despite his enemies' efforts, he lived to be 80. …

Features

Earth

Big ideas: Tectonics

Features

Physics

Big ideas: Science

Features

Earth

Pulling the blue iguana from the brink

Features

Earth

Big ideas: Climate change

Features

Life

The race to revisit the ocean depths

Features

Physics

Big ideas: Relativity

Features

Physics

Big ideas: The theory of everything

Features

Physics

Big ideas: Chaos

Features

Physics

Big ideas: Risk

Features

Physics

Big ideas: Quantum mechanics

Features

Life

Big ideas: Evolution

Features

Physics

Big ideas: The big bang

Features

Physics

The world's 10 biggest ideas

Features

More

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Playing with the big boys

Hidden in the attic Dubbed Seattle's "attic" because of its inaccessibility, the area south of Lake Union is trapped between two major transport arteries and the open water of the lake. Until recently, it was dominated by car dealerships and stores selling used office furniture. Now construction cranes tower above the white sailboats drifting on …

Careers

Life

The Long Tomorrow by Michael Rose

Books & Arts

Physics

The Theory of Almost Everything by Robert Oerter

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Astropalaeobiology

Regulars

Physics

The real Dr Faustus?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

"I've killed the internet" "OH NO! I've killed the internet!" Feedback's musings on whether the internet is fated to collapse into an infinite spam-complaint loop (16 July) reminded a colleague of the time back in 1995 when he sat bolt upright in bed at 3 am in Jaipur, Rajasthan, uttering this cry of anguish and …

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Letters

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