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11 March 2006

Issue 2542

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Editor's picks

Stem cells: Miracle postponed?

Life

Stem cells: Miracle postponed?

Features
Histories: Where mastodons roam

Life

Histories: Where mastodons roam

Features
Hollywood takes on the pirates

Technology

Hollywood takes on the pirates

Features
Are we still evolving?

Life

Are we still evolving?

Features
In space no one can hear you scream

Life

In space no one can hear you scream

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.

Earth

Snap up wave power with a magnetic trick

A WAVE-DRIVEN generator with virtually no moving parts could make wave power a more efficient and competitive form of renewable energy. The key to the device, dubbed the Snapper, is the way it converts a slow, steady wave motion into an efficient current-generating jackhammer-like action. Despite growing enthusiasm for wave power in countries such as …

News

Technology

'Hunch engine' sharpens up your half-baked ideas

News

Life

DNA bears the scars of past depression

News

Life

Selfless chimps lend a hand

News

Earth

Coastal carbon sinks are shrinking

News

Technology

Long-distance lovers can still drink together

News

Technology

Money can't buy you bandwidth

News

Technology

Has chatbot Alice crossed to the dark side?

News

Life

How to survive a marital tiff

News

Technology

Welcome to the open source cellphone

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

This week 25 years ago

News

Earth

Hidden Garden of Eden wilts as Earth warms

News

Health

Ale and hearty? Try the new health tipple

News

Space

Star shade will let alien planets shine

News

Earth

Gravity reveals shrinking Antarctic ice

News

Life

Why we aren't like our primate cousins

News

Life

When an active pregnancy leads to brainier offspring

News

Life

Genes, money and the American quest for identity

News

Health

Brain holds the key to chronic fatigue

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Vaccine could stop MS in its tracks

News

Space

Insight: The shuttle's foam problem

News

Health

Malaria threatens to become a superbug

News

Earth

PCBs are killing off eels

News

Health

Obesity rises in European children

News

Life

Bespoke badger bathrooms may save cattle

News

Earth

Cloudy future for ground-based astronomy

News

UK advisers say 'no' to nuclear future

News

Space

Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Africa's water crisis deepens

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

Animal rights and wrongs

THE demonstration in Oxford two weekends ago at which 600 people expressed their support for animal testing could have big implications for scientific research. Medical students, researchers and scientists, previously reluctant to speak up for fear of intimidation and harassment, took to the streets in response to protesters who are campaigning against a new animal …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Are we still evolving?

Opinion

Space

Turning point: Prepare for lift-off

Opinion

Earth

Interview: In the disaster zone

Opinion

Features

Stem cells: Miracle postponed?

Life

Stem cells: Miracle postponed?

HYEONI KIM believed. He had been paralysed at just 8 years old when he was hit by a car on his way home from school. So when South Korea's science superstar, Woo Suk Hwang, asked if his team could take skin cells from Kim and use them to obtain stem cells that might one day …

Features

Life

Histories: Where mastodons roam

Features

Technology

Hollywood takes on the pirates

Features

Life

Are we still evolving?

Features

Life

In space no one can hear you scream

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

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, images, secrecy by Mario Biagioli

IN 1609, while he was professor of mathematics at Padua in Italy, and in his mid-40s, Galileo Galilei heard of the invention of the telescope by Hans Lippershey and constructed a vastly improved version with lenses that he ground himself. Within six years, the astronomical discoveries he made with it took him from being an …

Books & Arts

Physics

Singularities: Landmarks on the pathways of life by Christian de Duve

Books & Arts

Earth

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Books & Arts

Technology

The word: Velcro

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

Smelly trademarks YOU can't launch a red postal service in the UK or a purple-wrapped chocolate in New Zealand because the Post Office and Cadbury have trademarked these colours. You could, at the time of writing, make a motorbike that sounds like a Harley (Feedback, 10 December 2005). Now Edward Phillips alerts us to the …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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