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4 March 2006

Issue 2541

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Sunken treasures of the Mediterranean

Life

Sunken treasures of the Mediterranean

Features
Proving that <I>E</I> equals <I>mc<SUP>2</SUP></I>

Physics

Proving that E equals mc2

Features
Nuclear waste: Its final resting place

Earth

Nuclear waste: Its final resting place

Features
When aliens rained over India

Life

When aliens rained over India

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Gizmo

Tennis fans will soon be able to play less energetic matches – using camera-phones as racquets. AR Tennis, a downloadable game under development by software engineer Anders Henrysson based in New Zealand, links two phones via a Bluetooth connection and allows them to hit a virtual tennis ball to each other. The players sit opposite …

News

Life

Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas

News

Technology

Hang on to the bumps for a smoother flight

News

Technology

Why timing is crucial in the botnet wars

News

Life

Double trouble on the roads?

News

Space

A star to help us see past the haze

News

Life

Why older mums expect more twins

News

Life

Ancient potatoes of the Andes

News

Life

When crickets turn cannibal

News

Technology

Flatscreen TVs to lose bad image

News

Earth

Hot claims for solar power future

News

Technology

Crop your photos with just a glance

News

Life

Jurassic 'beaver' is new fossil record

News

Life

Floral eavesdroppers get defensive

News

Health

Viagra may help treat Crohn's disease

News

Life

Eyes are fooled by spinning, curving balls

News

This week 23 years ago in New Scientist

News

Life

Hunters of the seas become the hunted

News

Life

Stem cells help horses over injury hurdle

News

Health

Dash of bleach boosts cancer vaccine

News

Earth

Global warming bubbles up from the ocean

News

Space

Neutrino 'mixing' may solve dark energy conundrum

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Have we got cell division all wrong?

News

Insight: US in dilemma over death row injections

News

Earth

Pulse reveals beating heart of a supervolcano

News

Biotech could stop bioterror

News

Earth

Altruism boosted by public recognition

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Say goodbye to cheap chicken

News

Life

Kennewick Man led a rough, tough life

News

Health

A-bomb legacy lives on in Japan

News

Life

US agents swoop on smuggled fossils

News

Earth

Papua New Guinea's forests illegally logged

News

Life

Microbes survived the Columbia shuttle disaster

News

Technology

Plutonium blast tests ageing nuclear materials

News

Opinion

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Health

Breast cancer and the hype over Herceptin

I HAVE nothing against miracles, but whenever there's a big buzz about a new drug, it's a fair bet it'll be down to the usual suspects: vested interests, early research, and uncritical journalists. Take Herceptin (trastuzumab). In October 2005, The New England Journal of Medicine sparked a huge reaction when it published studies which showed …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Supporters of animal testing stand up

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Use vaccines against bird flu

Opinion

Life

Interview: A sense of place

Opinion

Features

Sunken treasures of the Mediterranean

Life

Sunken treasures of the Mediterranean

IT'S not every day someone toasts a robot with ouzo, and rare indeed that they do so on board a ship beneath Mediterranean stars. Last July, however, a team of archaeologists, oceanographers and engineers did just that. They stayed up deep into the night on the deck of their research vessel Aegaeo, drinking to the …

Features

Physics

Proving that E equals mc2

Features

Earth

Nuclear waste: Its final resting place

Features

Life

When aliens rained over India

Features

More

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How to play the postdoctoral game

AN ASPIRING postdoctoral scholar could be forgiven for feeling some anxiety about the next few years of their career. Open any science magazine and you'll be told that life as a postdoc can be fraught with perils such as low pay, few benefits and, worst of all, a lack of career prospects. It doesn't have …

Careers

Physics

Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart

Books & Arts

Technology

Cell: A novel by Stephen King

Books & Arts

Your life starts here

Books & Arts

Life

Discussion: Beyond the selfish gene

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Panspermia

Regulars

Life

Breaking the spell of religion

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Multidimensional hard hats SNIBOR is a firm in south-west England that offers "building in every dimension". Have they found, Brian Hellyer asks, a way to exceed the conventional three? Or is it a promise to make use of all available dimensions, unlike those who skimp and make do with fewer? Feedback, still dealing with builders …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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