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22 October 2005

Issue 2522

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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.

Earth

Resurrecting Lisbon after earthquake and flood

Features
The birth of a language

Life

The birth of a language

Features
The future of Atlantic tsunamis

Earth

The future of Atlantic tsunamis

Features
Rare prehistoric pine to be saved by sales

Earth

Rare prehistoric pine to be saved by sales

Features
Powdered metal: The fuel of the future

Technology

Powdered metal: The fuel of the future

Features

Table of contents

News

Raptor inflicted death by a thousand bites

Life

Raptor inflicted death by a thousand bites

THE movie Jurassic Park propelled velociraptor to fame, but in real life the dinosaur was an altogether different kind of killer. Far from using its sickle claws to slash and disembowel, the velociraptor was a diminutive beast that used its claws to cling onto prey animals while working over them with its teeth. Phil Manning …

News

Life

Lonely island-trapped rat swims for freedom

News

Technology

More perfume, less poisonous by-products

News

Life

Alien life seems yet more likely

News

Health

Laws fail to stop India's organ trade

News

Life

Are all human embryos equal?

News

Health

Race is on to make bird flu drugs

News

Space

'Axis of evil' warps cosmic background

News

Soundbites

News

Health

A bug may help battle dengue

News

Life

US geologists rally against intelligent design

News

Earth

Antarctic ice slipping faster into the sea

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Asia focuses on the final frontier

News

Life

New form of scrapie discovered

News

US science may be in crisis

News

Earth

New Noah predicts floods across the US

News

Health

No place for Nazis in medicine

News

Technology

Implant to allow the deaf to hear music

News

Technology

Disguised sea sounds give intruders away

News

Life

Perils of sleeping in a fungal ecosystem

News

Earth

Seesawing gas kept Earth frozen for longer

News

Life

Rare snapshot of symbiotic recruitment

News

Life

Fast-tracked sexual promotion swells fish's head

News

Earth

Wired reef to spot polluters

News

Technology

Backlash against free internet calls

News

Life

Fluid chip directs wandering sperm

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Improved X-ray vision to stop nuke smugglers

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: A chance to crack the oil addiction

AFTER some last-minute drama and serious arm-twisting earlier this month, the US House of Representatives approved the Gasoline for America's Security Act by two votes. The GAS Act is a response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which knocked out a series of oil refineries and so pushed up pump prices. The legislation would make it …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Licence to cure bird flu

Opinion

Keep up the search

Opinion

Life

When Memory Lane is closed

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.

Earth

Resurrecting Lisbon after earthquake and flood

The first tremor struck Lisbon at 9.45 am on 1 November 1755 – All Saint's Day. From the hills above, it must have looked as if a rug had been pulled from under the city. Buildings toppled into the narrow streets. Panicked residents rushed for the refuge of the waterfront only to see the river …

Features

Life

The birth of a language

Features

Earth

The future of Atlantic tsunamis

Features

Earth

Rare prehistoric pine to be saved by sales

Features

Technology

Powdered metal: The fuel of the future

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.

Voices of History 2: Arts, science and exploration, British Library Audio CD

THERE is no known recording of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Ironic, isn't it? But there is a soundtrack from a lost 1914 film in which his assistant, Thomas Watson, describes how Bell transmitted the first electric message to the human ear. It is here among 38 rare recordings from the British Library's …

Books & Arts

Technology

Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts and Supercars, by Barry Parker

Books & Arts

Asian star shoots for the moon

Careers

Round Up

Careers

No going back

Careers

The Curies by Denis Brian

Books & Arts

Space

The word: Torino scale

Regulars

Life

Making contact with alien life forms

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

One up to the internet pundit IN LAST week's New Scientist (15 October, p 21), Debora MacKenzie observed that internet pundits follow the objects of their obsession far more, well, obsessively than journalists and even scientists can ever hope to – thus providing sometimes indispensable alerts for us all. The very day the article was …

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Regulars

Letters

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