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22 April 2006

Issue 2548

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Editor's picks

Histories: Rolling down the river

Life

Histories: Rolling down the river

Features
Wasps – sniffer dogs with wings?

Life

Wasps – sniffer dogs with wings?

Features
Welcome to total immersion gaming

Technology

Welcome to total immersion gaming

Features
Is it all over for nuclear power?

Technology

Is it all over for nuclear power?

Features
Exploring Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse

Space

Exploring Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse

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.

Health

Fighting superbugs with milk

A NEWBORN wallaby is a tiny, bean-shaped creature, barely more than a fetus. It lacks a developed immune system, relying on compounds in its mother's milk to protect it against pathogens. Now a unique antimicrobial has been discovered in wallaby milk that could be used in hospitals to fight deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria. When born, with …

News

Life

U-shaped bone gets whales moving

News

Life

Ban is no deterrent to stoned drivers

News

Health

Need a food or drug hit? Just relax

News

Technology

Brain training can change autistic behaviour

News

Space

Space molecule made in the lab

News

Life

Nile releases city's deep history

News

Technology

Websites break art's 'golden ratio' rule

News

Technology

Lasers bring quake-cracks to light

News

Technology

Attack of the giant rodent

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

New hunt is on for robot top dog

News

Technology

Solar-powered implant could restore vision

News

Technology

Caught by the sound of your speeding car

News

This week 30 years ago

News

Life

Virus turns killer as insect host fans out

News

Space

A view of the universe before the big bang

News

Life

Evolution gets busy in the urban lab

News

Earth

Killing wolves won't solve farmers' long-term problems

News

Space

Earth escapes gamma-ray-burst disaster

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Acrylamide: The food scare the world forgot

News

Earth

Whaling fleet for sale

News

Life

Lost wetlands push bird flu into farms

News

Technology

Eminent physicists warn US against nuclear option

News

Health

Dangerous fast food fats show global variation

News

Space

Tenth planet is white like fresh snow

News

Life

Goth subculture may support vulnerable teens

News

Health

Merck in court over osteoporosis drug

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.

Life

Editorial: Rise of the urban jungle

THE discovery of a new ecosystem, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, say, is a rare and exciting event, and tends to be big news. But one of the biggest "discoveries" of recent years is going on quietly, right under our noses. It turns out that cities – those noisy, smelly, garbage-strewn expanses of asphalt and concrete …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: How to deal with a food scare

Opinion

Technology

Interview: Six clicks of separation

Opinion

Earth

Unsettling times for Africa's nomadic herders

Opinion

Features

Histories: Rolling down the river

Life

Histories: Rolling down the river

The mail must get through In January 1871, the Prussian troops encamped near the upper reaches of the river Seine took little notice as Emile Robert trundled past on his horse and cart. The Frenchman in his smock and otter-skin hat was obviously an itinerant egg seller, and the occupying Prussians had more pressing things …

Features

Life

Wasps – sniffer dogs with wings?

Features

Technology

Welcome to total immersion gaming

Features

Technology

Is it all over for nuclear power?

Features

Space

Exploring Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse

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

What's in a name? Meaning behind "ugly monkey" uacari lost to history

HOW do animals and birds get their common names? Why is a robin a robin? Why is a cat not a dog? Like their scientific counterparts, common names are part of a classification system – of sorts. You could call it folk taxonomy. Yet these names are much more than mere labels to ensure that …

Regulars

Technology

Beyond oil and gas by George A Olah, Alain Goeppert and G K Surya Prakash

Books & Arts

Physics

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, by Peter Doherty

Books & Arts

You get the picture

Books & Arts

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

Transformational shopping A MONTH ago we reported, with perhaps a tiny hint of scepticism, on a construction company called Snibor that claims to "build in every dimension" (4 March). How could we be so out of touch as to doubt, even implicitly, its ability to "exceed the conventional three" dimensions? Keith Simpson chides us for …

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