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5 November 2005

Issue 2524

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Editor's picks

Money and monkey business

Life

Money and monkey business

Features
Left-hander writing

Life

The secrets of human handedness

Features
Gunpowder: A blast from the past

Technology

Gunpowder: A blast from the past

Features
The robot that thinks like you...

Technology

The robot that thinks like you...

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

Easy animation to get novices jumping for joy

DRAWINGS sketched on the screen of a Tablet PC can be animated in seconds thanks to new software. All it takes is the flourish of a stylus. The software, called K-Sketch, allows a relatively unskilled user to sketch out a scene on the PC's screen, select the parts they want to animate, and then simply …

News

Earth

How green is your house?

News

Technology

Cheap, rapid, hand-held check for HIV

News

Life

Biological clock ticks for men too

News

Life

Elephants pay homage to dead relatives

News

Technology

What collagen can tell you, and how

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Scratching the way to a faster internet

News

Technology

A sound way to fight movie pirates

News

Life

The stomach cannot lie

News

Life

How fatty food tickles the tongue

News

Earth

Did volcano cause a sea level rebound?

News

Life

Dyslexia gene may have been pinpointed

News

Technology

Nanoscale 'spring' thermometers are highly sensitive

News

Health

Walking near the road boosts pollution intake

News

Life

Romantic rodents woo with a song

News

Health

Victims of genetic discrimination speak up

News

Earth

Great apes face Ebola oblivion

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Marauders continue to plunder the oceans

News

Health

Yet more reasons to ban smoking

News

Earth

X-rays peer into the green solvents of the future

News

Physics

At the fourth photon, the time will be...

News

Space

Student satellite in power-down mystery

News

Earth

Ship canal was storm funnel during Katrina

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Anonymous sperm donor traced on internet

News

Space

Powerful new binocular telescope opens one eye

News

Greater protection for animal-testing labs moves closer

News

Technology

US abandons nuclear bunker-buster research

News

Jailed microbiologist's appeal rejected

News

Space

Hope for man stuck in space

News

Opinion

Mission unthinkable: Disbanding NASA

Space

Mission unthinkable: Disbanding NASA

LESS than two years after it was announced with great fanfare, President Bush's plan to return people to the moon is in trouble. The signs are everywhere. Take Operation Offset, a proposal devised by a group of Republican legislators to cut government programmes and free up funds to pay for damage done by hurricanes Katrina …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Anonymity vanishes for sperm donors

Opinion

Editorial: One bad apple...

Opinion

Earth

Let the future take root

Opinion

Features

Money and monkey business

Life

Money and monkey business

THE capuchin monkeys working with economist Keith Chen and psychologist Laurie Santos know a good bargain when they see one. They use metal chips as money, buying bits of apple or cucumber from humans, and they seem to know what they're doing. When the researchers make apple cheaper than cucumber – offering more food for …

Features

Life

The secrets of human handedness

Features

Technology

Gunpowder: A blast from the past

Features

Technology

The robot that thinks like you...

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.

Round-up

Down on the farm... A major new research campus is set to bring hundreds of new jobs to the south bank of the Potomac river. One of the region's largest life-sciences research donors, the non-profit foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is building a 700-acre life sciences campus dubbed Janelia Farm. Officials decided to keep the …

Careers

Health

US liberty and the pursuit of medicines

Books & Arts

Earth

The word: Cherrapunji

Regulars

Feynman uncut

Books & Arts

Space

How to Gaze at the Southern Stars by Richard Hall

Books & Arts

Life

Curious Minds by Joseph LeDoux

Books & Arts

Mid-Atlantic starts biotech makeover

Careers

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

Confusing Karen FOLLOWING the disaster of hurricane Katrina, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued guidelines for "keeping food safe during an emergency". The bulk of the advice focuses on how to keep one's freezer cold during power outages, and it includes tips such as: "Fifty pounds of dry ice should hold an 18-cubic-foot full …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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