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18 March 2006

Issue 2543

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Editor's picks

Climate: The great hockey stick debate

Earth

Climate: The great hockey stick debate

Features
A people lost for words

Life

A people lost for words

Features
The unbearable elusiveness of gravitons

Space

The unbearable elusiveness of gravitons

Features
Nuclear nightmare in Manhattan

Technology

Nuclear nightmare in Manhattan

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

Nano-scaffolds could help rebuild sight

ANIMALS blinded following damage to their optic nerve have had their vision partially restored with the help of an implanted nanoscale scaffold that has encouraged nerve tissue to regrow. The technique, likened by its inventors to the way a garden trellis encourages the growth of ivy, holds out the hope that people with diseased or …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Saved by 'sand' poured into the wounds

News

Technology

Fake statues unmasked with X-rays

News

Technology

Chatbot George gets a makeover

News

Technology

Google wants to store it all

News

Health

Pot-smoking your way to memory loss

News

Life

For a healthier workout, run with the pack

News

Health

Insight: Mad cows and the UK's beef industry

News

Life

Easter Island mystery deepens

News

This week 38 years ago

News

Life

Saturn's miniature moon a possible haven for life

News

Earth

Whales move north as oceans warm

News

Life

Why mammal ears need coils

News

Life

Shark oil keeps seabirds alive

News

Space

Planet hunters eye Andromeda

News

Life

Frog joins the ultrasonic league

News

Health

Infant death link to low serotonin

News

Life

Tracing the origins of Chile's ancient hill art

News

Life

Troubling times for embryo gene tests

News

Soundbites

News

Space

Martian probes are rewriting history

News

Earth

EU's butterfly havens are vanishing

News

Physics

Are days numbered for 'bubble fusion'?

News

Earth

Design flaw led to New Orleans levee breach

News

Health

Warnings issued over cats with bird flu

News

Space

Stardust samples reveal comet's fiery past

News

Health

Africa leads measles purge

News

Scientific fraud is too easy

News

60 Seconds

News

Abortion: Science, politics and morality collide

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.

Science could prevent misplaced convictions

THANKS to TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , forensics is perceived as a glamorous science. In reality, of course, it is anything but, and in some areas it isn't particularly scientific either. Fingerprints, tool marks and similar evidence can be invaluable in bringing a criminal to justice. The problem is that expert witnesses …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Climate change is all around us

Opinion

Life

Editorial: A new hunting ground for alien life

Opinion

Technology

Interview: Designing a wish

Opinion

Features

Climate: The great hockey stick debate

Earth

Climate: The great hockey stick debate

IT IS a persuasive image. Dubbed "the hockey stick" soon after it was first drawn, the graph shows the average temperature over the past 1000 years. For the first 900 or so years there is little variation, like the shaft of an ice-hockey stick. Then, in the 20th century, comes a sharp rise like a …

Features

Life

A people lost for words

Features

Space

The unbearable elusiveness of gravitons

Features

Technology

Nuclear nightmare in Manhattan

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.

The Oracle by William Broad

THIS book focuses on Delphi, the sanctuary of Apollo in ancient Greece, whose oracle – priestess Pythia – sat over a chasm in the earth, breathing in its fumes and answering questions. Archaeologists began investigating the site more than 100 years ago. They found the place where the oracle sat – but no chasm. Broad's …

Books & Arts

Life

Picturing Tropical Nature by Nancy Leys Stepan

Books & Arts

Physics

The word: Mesoscopic

Regulars

Earth

The saving of Planet Gaia

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Accidental stereo IT IS now 20 years or so since Californian record collectors Brad Kay and Steven Lasker came up with the intriguing theory that some old mono recordings were accidentally made in stereo, long before LP stereo was launched in 1958. In the 1920s and 1930s there was no tape, so studios cut recordings …

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Letters

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