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26 November 2005

Issue 2527

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Editor's picks

Supersonic jets: The next generation

Technology

Supersonic jets: The next generation

Features
Will a pastry a day keep the doctor away?

Health

Will a pastry a day keep the doctor away?

Features
Exploring the moral maze

Life

Exploring the moral maze

Features
Looking for alien intelligence in the computational universe

Life

Looking for alien intelligence in the computational universe

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

New anaesthetic delivery system goes wild

It is almost certainly the only piece of equipment in a wildlife vet's armoury that uses motorbike spare parts. But it won't help them get around. It is a novel anaesthetic delivery system designed for field use. To operate on an animal, a vet can deliver the anaesthetic by injection or gas, but neither is …

News

Earth

Myriad mirrors turn desert into energy farm

News

Technology

Robo-planes fight for airtime

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Seeking a safe path through the landmine debate

News

Technology

When is a landmine not a landmine?

News

Life

For ultrasharp pictures, use a living camera

News

Technology

A cool way to soup up a supercomputer

News

Soundbites

News

Technology

Quantum bubbles are key to extreme computing

News

Health

Innocents die as DNA goes untested

News

Life

Dino droppings reveal prehistoric taste for grass

News

Physics

'Hot' superconductor surprise baffles physicists

News

Life

Weather's role in early Irish building

News

Health

Statins also do stem cell magic

News

Health

Malaria control should target 'super-spreaders'

News

Health

Lifespan-boosting gene may be more effective if absent

News

Life

Helpful ants put up no-entry signs

News

Earth

Young Earth not as hellish as we thought

News

Life

Tibet's mountain gods have a way of preserving nature

News

Earth

'Missing' Xenon's hiding place unearthed

News

Space

Where to find the beginning of time

News

Health

Families share traits of autistic children

News

Life

How life shapes the brainscape

News

Health

Brief thoughts

News

Controversial chemical legislation is approved

News

Health

No slowing in AIDS calamity

News

Technology

Why we cannot rely on firearm forensics

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

GM peas cause surprise allergic reaction

News

Health

FDA clears anti-flu drug Tamiflu

News

Space

Internet entrepreneur poised to become rocket man

News

Health

Published Chinese research may be skewed

News

Space

Japan's accident-prone probe soldiers on

News

Opinion

A farewell to nuclear arms in the UK?

A farewell to nuclear arms in the UK?

THIS week, the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment hopes to gain approval to build a 1000-terawatt laser called Orion at its headquarters at Aldermaston in Berkshire, about 100 kilometres west of London. One of the most powerful lasers in the world, Orion will recreate the extremely high temperatures and pressures at the heart of nuclear explosions. …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: No genetically modified peas please

Opinion

Earth

Interview: The ice man cometh

Opinion

Features

Supersonic jets: The next generation

Technology

Supersonic jets: The next generation

IT MUST have made a terrific din. But luckily as the aircraft tore across the spring sky over Woomera, South Australia, last month at more than twice the speed of sound, there was no one around to hear it except a few kangaroos. Shot into the sky on the back of a rocket, the plane …

Features

Health

Will a pastry a day keep the doctor away?

Features

Life

Exploring the moral maze

Features

Life

Looking for alien intelligence in the computational universe

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

A truly blue rose After 15 years spent chasing the florists' holy grail, Melbourne-based biotech company Florigene has created the first blue rose. The variety was produced by transferring genes for the blue pigment delphinidin from pansies, torenias and irises. The flower is now being tried out on the public in the US and Japan. …

Careers

Australian biotech is on the up

Careers

The memoirs of Mary Midgley

Books & Arts

Down under on the up and up

Careers

Life

The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson

Books & Arts

Physics

It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity by N David Mermin

Books & Arts

The word: Ambiguity

Regulars

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

Liberty cabbage – Feedback's cure for bird flu OUR main theme this week is cabbage – and a saga of devotion to the truth even when it flies in the face of sacred symbols of national identity. Last year Korean scientists reported that their national dish, the spicy fermented cabbage called kimchi, cured infected chickens …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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