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6 May 2006

Issue 2550

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The phone that roared

Technology

The phone that roared

Features
Aspartame: The healthy option?

Health

Aspartame: The healthy option?

Features
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Earth

Stalactites: Chaos + time = beauty

Features
Change the way you see the world

Earth

Change the way you see the world

Features
Tapping into vision, thoughts and dreams

Life

Tapping into vision, thoughts and dreams

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Bug-eye lens gives a broader view

IMAGINE if you could see the world through the eyes of an insect, able to spot a bite to eat or a potential predator even when it is almost behind you. That may soon be possible, using an artificial, ultra-wide angle "eye", about 2.5 millimetres across and developed by researchers at the University of California, …

News

Technology

The rotor that spins on a bubble

News

Technology

Computer watches you bust a move

News

Technology

Boost for Arabic web users

News

Technology

Open the pod bay doors, HAL

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

NASA braced for deluge of data from deep space

News

Earth

Modified cotton cuts pesticide use

News

Earth

No winner in future climate league

News

Health

Emergency Marburg treatment succeeds in test

News

Earth

North America just got smaller

News

Technology

Virtual slicing gives faster testing

News

Space

Saturn's spin is hard to pin down

News

Life

Did carob seeds allow shady diamond deals?

News

Life

Why gorillas gorge on decaying wood

News

This week 32 years ago

News

Health

Skin faults linked to allergic disorders

News

Life

Panama butterflies cosy up to other species

News

Life

Shape changer helps HIV play havoc

News

Life

How chemicals can speed up evolution

News

Life

Insight: Beware escaped chimps

News

Soundbites

News

Physics

Lasers may test a weighty theory

News

Earth

More and more animals face extinction

News

Health

Beware Europe's unknown viral nasties

News

Earth

Ozone: the sequel

News

Earth

UK told to bury nuclear waste, again

News

Health

Health woes pile up in the US

News

Life

Male birth control moves closer

News

Health

The perils of cheerleading

News

60 Seconds

News

Physics

Free will – you only think you have it

News

Earth

UK to get EU's largest wind farm

News

Opinion

How not to banish HIV

Life

How not to banish HIV

IN THE same State of the Union address in which George Bush prepared the world for war in Iraq in 2003, he announced a foreign policy initiative of an altogether different kind – "a work of mercy beyond all current international efforts to help the people of Africa". This was the President's Emergency Plan for …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Nuclear waste too hot to handle

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: US may collide with success yet

Opinion

Life

Interview: A life evolving

Opinion

Features

The phone that roared

Technology

The phone that roared

"These deluded and romantic men gave me a glimpse of the skilled proletariat of the United States. They sang obsolete sentimental songs with genuine emotion; and their language was frightful even to an Irishman. They worked with a ferocious energy which was out of all proportion to the actual result achieved...They were free-souled creatures, excellent …

Features

Health

Aspartame: The healthy option?

Features

Earth

Stalactites: Chaos + time = beauty

Features

Earth

Change the way you see the world

Features

Life

Tapping into vision, thoughts and dreams

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

The Master Plan by Heather Pringle

IN 1935 Heinrich Himmler set up a research group known as the Ahnenerbe. Its agenda was to rewrite prehistory in the light of Nazi ideology and racial theory. The group masterminded the looting of museums in occupied Poland, and was responsible for the most notorious medical experiments of the Reich. Alarmingly, Pringle catalogues the comparative …

Books & Arts

Switzerland's thriving pharmaceutical industry

Careers

Germany's scientist chancellor brings high-tech renaissance

Careers

Health

Putting bodies on display

Books & Arts

Life

Infinite Nature by R Bruce Hull

Books & Arts

The word: Primitive streak

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback

Is the moon a fake? THANKS to Mark MacDiarmid for alerting us to the existence of a very silly book. Who Built The Moon? is by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. The blurb reveals that: "The Moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is …

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