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18 February 2006

Issue 2539

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Get ready for 24-hour living

Life

Get ready for 24-hour living

Features
Slippery ships float on thin air

Technology

Slippery ships float on thin air

Features
Watching the North Pole wobble

Earth

Watching the North Pole wobble

Features
Elephants on the edge fight back

Life

Elephants on the edge fight back

Features

Table of contents

News

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Life

New Olympic scoring system offers mixed results

Olympic figure skating is on thin ice again. The new scoring system designed to banish bias among judges could itself influence the choice of medal winners. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, Russia won gold for pairs figure skating thanks to a dubious score from one of eight judges, who later admitted being under pressure to …

News

Health

Bird flu lands in Africa

News

Technology

Trains the best way to carry US nuclear waste

News

Earth

Shovelling storm snow takes toll on the heart

News

Life

Cloning researcher's reputation tarnished

News

Health

FDA may reject safety warning for ADHD drugs

News

Health

Know when your time is up

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Disappearing deltas could spell disaster

News

Earth

Worst case global warming scenario revealed

News

Health

Ecstasy and loud music are a bad mix

News

Life

The secret to soap opera addiction

News

Life

Big cats hit by photographers' cheap trick

News

Health

When prions are 'good for the brain'

News

Health

Cancer deaths fall as US smokers quit

News

Technology

The bomb that tunnels through rock

News

Life

Tutankhamen liked his wine white

News

Technology

Cute graphics add credibility to fake websites

News

Technology

How to keep your site anonymous

News

Technology

Half-price missile shield for aircraft

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

A blushing start to colour vision

News

Technology

Beware the helpful robots in your home

News

Space

Violent past of the 'Man in the Moon'

News

Earth

Sands of time blown back to reveal ancient Sahara

News

Health

No excuse to quit the diet yet

News

Health

Melatonin may have no effect on sleep patterns

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Shark ancestors weren't so long in the tooth

News

Life

This week 30 years ago in New Scientist

News

Space

Sights set on quantum froth

News

Life

Leggier cane toads step up efforts to conquer Australia

News

Earth

We're eating an entire food chain

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.

Health

Editorial: Tobacco's burning shame

AFTER years of struggling for smoke-free workplaces, health labels on cigarettes and advertising bans, those waging the war against tobacco have something to be proud of. Cancer deaths in the US have fallen for the first time since records began in the 1930s, the American Cancer Society reported last week, an advance that is at …

Opinion

Bon appetit!

Opinion

No such thing as zero risk

Opinion

Features

Get ready for 24-hour living

Life

Get ready for 24-hour living

SO MUCH to do, so little time. Between a hectic work schedule and a thriving social life, Yves (not his real name), a 31- year-old software developer from Seattle, often doesn't have time for a full night's sleep. So he swallows something to make sure he doesn't need one. "If I take a dose just …

Features

Technology

Slippery ships float on thin air

Features

Earth

Watching the North Pole wobble

Features

Life

Elephants on the edge fight back

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.

Technology

There's no business like glow business

IN THE 1850s, glass-makers in Bohemia invented a new type of glass by adding small amounts of uranium ore. Not only was the glass a striking greenish-yellow colour, it also appeared to glow in the evening sun. It became very fashionable, and was used in all manner of glassware from jewellery to fruit bowls (see …

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Supercentenarian

Regulars

The edge of time

Books & Arts

Ocean pioneers

Books & Arts

Eleven myths about PhDs debunked

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

3D disasters DISNEY'S new movie Chicken Little is now showing in 3D in some cinemas. The film is digital, and this allows left and right-eye views to alternate so rapidly on the screen that an audience wearing special spectacles sees smooth depth. Before the advent of digital 3D, Hollywood had to use two film projectors, …

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Regulars

Letters

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