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24 September 2005

Issue 2518

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Editor's picks

Coffee: The demon drink?

Health

Coffee: The demon drink?

Features
The butterfly's effect on cosmetics

Life

The butterfly's effect on cosmetics

Features
The unbearable absence of smelling

Life

The unbearable absence of smelling

Features
Human life: The next generation

Life

Human life: The next generation

Features

Table of contents

News

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Space

NASA harks back to Apollo

After nearly two years of heavy thinking, NASA unveiled its plans on Monday to take astronauts back to the moon. It could have saved itself the trouble, as early reports suggest the designers haven't added much to the Apollo missions that ended 32 years ago. Lacking the mighty Saturn V rocket, which took the Apollo …

News

Earth

Unregulated fishing devastates shark populations

News

Health

Misguided safeguards may limit MRI scans

News

Health

Flu shots prove successful

News

Earth

Air travel boosts climate change

News

Space

Titan may boast extraterrestrial sea

News

Health

Smoking ban is a clear winner

News

60 Seconds

News

Physics

100 years after E=mc2

News

Technology

E-nose to sniff out hospital superbugs

News

Technology

CarSim turns witnesses' words into movies

News

Earth

AI systems may blow weathermen away

News

Life

Species-spotting for beginners

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

Space fires put out with a shout

News

Technology

Swarm of insect-sized robots commissioned

News

Earth

Global warming may have big effect on air pressure

News

Technology

Test sorts fakes from priceless porcelains

News

Health

Viral hitch-hiker targets tumours

News

Life

Neanderthal kids needed time to grow up

News

Space

Exact home of Mars meteorite suggested

News

US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

News

Life

Ants keep unwanted trees off their turf

News

Life

Remove sperm's cap before injecting

News

Life

'Whale riders' reveal distant split in cetacean species

News

Life

Online database to catalogue animal life

News

Life

Eggs thrive in ovary transplants

News

Life

Never too late to revitalise your mind

News

Soundbites

News

Will we meet our pledge to end world poverty?

News

Earth

East African parks face bleak future

News

Earth

South Atlantic hurricane rings climate alarm bells

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.

Earth

Editorial: Storm warning

OUT of a fog of meteorological data, an alarming picture of intensifying tropical cyclones and hurricanes is emerging. It can be summed up in two words: more Katrinas. The likely effects of climate change on the number and intensity of tropical storms has been debated for years. Some argued that warmer sea surface temperatures would …

Opinion

Hollywood's changing take on the scientist

Opinion

Science versus animal rights extremists

Opinion

Editorial: Follow poverty pledges with cash

Opinion

Features

Coffee: The demon drink?

Health

Coffee: The demon drink?

IN THE middle of Portland, Oregon, is Pioneer Courthouse Square, a welcome oasis of open space among the city's bustling shops and offices. Business people and spiky-haired teenagers mingle here to wait for a train, eat lunch, or just watch the world go by. But above all they come here to drink. Even by the …

Features

Life

The butterfly's effect on cosmetics

Features

Life

The unbearable absence of smelling

Features

Life

Human life: The next generation

Features

More

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Head for the cities in the snow

Vancouver BRITISH Columbians are used to living far from the traditional power centres of Canada. After all, people in Vancouver are farther from Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa than Londoners are from Moscow. And many Vancouverites like it that way. "There's a bit of a frontier attitude," says Angus Livingstone, managing director of the University of …

Careers

Science essay competition 2005

Books & Arts

Earth

The word: Tanzanite

Regulars

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Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

On from the face on Mars THE "face" on Mars seems to have disappeared, which must come as a great relief to NASA. In 1993 we reported that Mike Malin, principal investigator on NASA's Mars Observer camera, complained that he was spending a quarter of his valuable time responding to conspiracy theorists. Publication of high-resolution …

Regulars

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Letters

Regulars

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