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15 October 2005

Issue 2521

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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.

Space

Smash and grab raid on an asteroid

Features
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Earth

Histories: The week the climate changed

Features
How to stop the destruction of Amazonia

How to stop the destruction of Amazonia

Features
Lassie and friends come to the rescue

Life

Lassie and friends come to the rescue

Features
Why time keeps going forwards

Space

Why time keeps going forwards

Features

Table of contents

News

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60 Seconds

Second time lucky Japan successfully tested a prototype supersonic aircraft over the Woomera Test Range in Australia on Monday. The unmanned craft, the Scaled Experimental Supersonic Transport, was launched from a rocket. It flew for 15 minutes and 22 seconds, reached twice the speed of sound and rose to an altitude of 19 kilometres. The …

News

Health

Bird flu: kick-start vaccination or face the consequences

News

Earth

Pakistan braced for another quake

News

Life

Feathered flight, so good they did it twice?

News

Health

'Slumber gene' brings deep sleep

News

Slumber secrets

News

Technology

Noise fine-tunes nanoscale sensor

News

How new words become part of a language

News

Physics

Green chemistry gets the Nobel nod

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Nuclear watchdog wins peace prize

News

Life

Sexual healing and the wildlife trade

News

Health

Cheap cures for major diseases

News

Earth

Climate change satellite is too good to lose

News

Life

In a lather over badger brushes

News

Health

Cervical cancer vaccine should also be given to men

News

Technology

Great libraries take to the net

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Even a chatbot can turn nasty

News

Technology

Pocket Braille for people on the move

News

Life

Where the flying lizards got their lift

News

Life

Don't trust national stereotypes, especially your own

News

Health

Survival trick of loose cancer cells

News

Health

Fetal repair kit found in amniotic fluid

News

Earth

Atmospheric humidity increases global warming

News

Life

Sea slugs solve the battle of the sexes

News

Life

More hobbit bones found

News

Life

Varied diet was reptile's success

News

Ancient noodle rewrites history

News

Space

Mars probe finds rare life on Earth

News

Earth

For global cooling, just spray

News

Health

HIV drugs are the latest recruits in the fight against cancer

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.

Ask a silly question, the answer may surprise

THE Ig Nobel awards are a wonderful send-up of science's most prestigious prizes. Winners pay their own way to the event, held annually at Harvard University, then have to endure riotous laughter as their work is "recognised" in public. This year's Ig Nobels celebrate such dubious achievements as artificial testicles for dogs and an experiment …

Opinion

Earth

For want of an emergency warning

Opinion

Life

Power to the paranoid people

Opinion

Technology

The blogger of Tehran

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.

Space

Smash and grab raid on an asteroid

FOR millions of space rocks endlessly circling the sun, life is distinctly dull. Apart from the occasional jolt when a meteor hits, little has disturbed many of these asteroids since the solar system formed more than 4 billion years ago. But one unsuspecting rock is in for a big surprise. It's a tiny world roughly …

Features

Earth

Histories: The week the climate changed

Features

How to stop the destruction of Amazonia

Features

Life

Lassie and friends come to the rescue

Features

Space

Why time keeps going forwards

Features

More

Monkeyluv: And other lessons on our lives as animals, by Robert Sapolsky

Life

Monkeyluv: And other lessons on our lives as animals, by Robert Sapolsky

WHAT is the connection between Jonathan the lovesick baboon and an admin assistant called Paul? For starters, they both appear in Robert Sapolsky's new book, Monkeyluv , a collection of essays about human (and other primate) behaviour and biology. Sapolsky is a behavioural biologist, and very broad-ranging. Most of these essays have been published before, …

Books & Arts

The hardest path

Careers

Physics

The word: Technicolour

Regulars

On the front line

Books & Arts

Light savers

Books & Arts

Stand up and be counted

Careers

Life

Skin-to-skin contact helps premature babies

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

The 2005 Ig Nobel prize awards THIS has been a rich year for Feedback's favourite awards, the Ig Nobels, which honour achievements that make people laugh, then think. The awards were given out on 6 October in a ceremony at Harvard University sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research . This year's Ig Nobel literature …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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