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4 February 2006

Issue 2537

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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.

Technology

Robot special: Get a grip

Features
Robot special: Almost human

Technology

Robot special: Almost human

Features
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Technology

Robot special: Now hear this

Features
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Technology

Robot special: Walk this way

Features
Teach your brain to stretch time

Life

Teach your brain to stretch time

Features

Table of contents

News

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Earth

Pigeons to set up a smog blog

Got your own blog yet? If not you'd better hurry up if you don't want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons. Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies above San Jose, California, each carrying a GPS receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic cellphone. They will …

News

Technology

Feels sensational, says robot finger

News

Technology

Individual mobile homes for living cells

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

A race against time to diagnose bird flu

News

Technology

10-minute test for deadly stomach bug

News

Technology

Turning the worm secures the computer

News

Life

Probing the secrets of sticky earwax

News

Space

Hubble explodes latest 'evidence' of cosmic strings

News

Health

Do healthy prions boost stem cells?

News

Earth

Glacial tricks of a volcanic sculptor

News

Technology

Getting up to speed on ethanol

News

Earth

Arctic permafrost set to disappear over next century

News

Life

This week 23 years ago

News

Earth

Green turtle demise greatly exaggerated

News

Space

Quantum foam blows away naked singularity

News

Life

Inside the brain of an alcoholic

News

Life

How the mind senses movement

News

Health

Concerns rise over deer with chronic wasting disease

News

Life

Tasmanian devils felled by rare cancer

News

Space

'Tenth planet' is bigger than Pluto

News

Soundbites

News

Health

France keeps its atomic testing secrets

News

Space

Quark stars crack cosmic conundrums

News

Life

Gun-toting motorists more prone to road rage

News

Earth

Top climatologist forecasts swift ice cap collapse

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Answering the cellphone-radiation question

News

Faraday: a poser without peer

News

Health

Childhood defects kill more people than AIDS

News

Technology

US in U-turn over nuclear reprocessing

News

Life

Battle of the tiddler vertebrates

News

Life

Safe pickings needed for India's vultures

News

Opinion

Forgotten wrongs of cloning 'pioneer'

Life

Forgotten wrongs of cloning 'pioneer'

A FRAUD, a liar and a charlatan: that is the general verdict on Woo Suk Hwang, South Korea's disgraced "king of cloning". But the reactions to Hwang's transgressions, which have focused on the fraud, are themselves deeply unsettling. His team didn't just fabricate data. It also breached ethical guidelines designed to protect women from exploitation …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: We need to hear the bad news

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Google whacked over Chinese censorship

Opinion

Interview: A sceptic's work is never done

Opinion

Physics

Science: A thing of beauty

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Robot special: Get a grip

CLAD smartly in a white flight suit, the astronaut is a picture of concentration – carefully grasping a rod with a gloved hand and fastening it to a large aluminium frame by gently twisting the rod until it locks in place. That frame might some day support solar panels to power a space station or …

Features

Technology

Robot special: Almost human

Features

Technology

Robot special: Now hear this

Features

Technology

Robot special: Walk this way

Features

Life

Teach your brain to stretch time

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.

Life

The End of Faith by Sam Harris

Do we need another book on the conflict between reason and faith? Yes, if it is as well-written as Sam Harris's The End of Faith (Free Press, £7.99). It's an account of why he sees religions as a global problem. Harris has no problem with mystical experiences – they're rational, he says – except for …

Books & Arts

Life

Making Happy People by Paul Martin

Books & Arts

Life

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Books & Arts

Space

The word: Tachyons

Regulars

Technology

Living in a material world

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Curse of the ear worm EXPERIMENTS not working? Guinea pigs on strike? Muons in a mess? Then Barney Gardom may have stumbled across the service you need at http://athanor.firedrake.org . It offers "home and office cleansing" as part of its "curse removal and protection" services. We assume they'll do laboratories too. Barney is troubled by …

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