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25 March 2006

Issue 2544

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Blasts from the past: Superstar soprano males

Life

Blasts from the past: Superstar soprano males

Features
Quantum computers: March of the qubits

Technology

Quantum computers: March of the qubits

Features
Everlasting power in the offing

Technology

Everlasting power in the offing

Features
Half virus, half beast – it's a 20-sided freak

Life

Half virus, half beast – it's a 20-sided freak

Features
Ride the celestial subway

Space

Ride the celestial subway

Features

Table of contents

News

How to tell a fender bender from a pile-up

Technology

How to tell a fender bender from a pile-up

SYSTEMS that broadcast an alert when a car has crashed risk swamping emergency services with trivial calls about scraped fenders. Such systems need to get much smarter, says Daniel Talmor, a doctor at the intensive care unit of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Otherwise paramedics will waste a lot of their time …

News

Technology

Cities race to reap the rewards of wireless net for all

News

Technology

Robo-muscles deliver power from within

News

Health

Why humans don't easily catch bird flu

News

Technology

Rules for the modern robot

News

Earth

Greener houses brick by brick

News

Life

Vertical lessons keep kids healthy

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Tropical storms turn up heat in climate battle

News

Space

Shady deals on a galactic scale

News

Life

The goat fetus that's immune to BSE

News

Health

Angina equally common to men and women

News

Life

The oldest footprints in Australia

News

Technology

Ozone spikes hit men where it hurts

News

Earth

And life created continents...

News

Life

A brain primed for violence?

News

This week 37 years ago

News

Earth

Where the world got its water

News

Health

One drug trial, six men, disaster…

News

Life

Have we already colonised Titan?

News

Space

Martian gullies 'like lunar landslides'

News

Earth

Amazon being devastated at terrible rate

News

Space

Clearest view yet of the universe's troubled youth

News

Health

Families called in to battle TB

News

Space

Comet probes may be called on again

News

Earth

Plea to conserve home of the peyote cactus

News

Space

NASA Mars rover limps to the hills

News

Health

Slobodan Milosevic: A self-made demise?

News

Health

Soy 'hormone' given the all clear

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Australia reels under storm assault

News

Opinion

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Life

Interview: Footsteps in the sand

Some 60,000 years ago, modern humans meandered out of Africa, but the details of this migration are murky. What routes did they take? How could they have crossed deserts and mountain ranges? Did they leave and later return? To find the answers to some of these questions, last year the US National Geographic Society in …

Opinion

Life

The seal killing has to stop

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Rise and fall of an iconic woodpecker

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Drug trial disaster offers a warning

Opinion

Features

Blasts from the past: Superstar soprano males

Life

Blasts from the past: Superstar soprano males

The popularity of the castrato voice reached its peak with opera performances in early-18th-century Italy To celebrate the launch of New Scientist 's latest book, Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers , we've asked its editor, Stephanie Pain, to select four of her favourite blasts from the past, together with a brand new one Read more: " …

Features

Technology

Quantum computers: March of the qubits

Features

Technology

Everlasting power in the offing

Features

Life

Half virus, half beast – it's a 20-sided freak

Features

Space

Ride the celestial subway

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

Consciousness: In here, out there, somewhere?

IS THE mind locked into the brain? Are conscious experiences just bits of the brain? That's the way it looks to most people, including a large number of researchers. So it might come as a bit of a shock to discover that quite a few scientists and philosophers disagree. According to the standard model of …

Books & Arts

Physics

The word: Loser

Regulars

Physics

The Quantum Zoo by Marcus Chown

Books & Arts

Earth

Oceans: An illustrated reference by Dorrik Stow

Books & Arts

Clinical research moves to halt shift to Asia

Careers

Regulars

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