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24 June 2006

Issue 2557

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Editor's picks

Amazonia: how life branches out

Life

Amazonia: how life branches out

Features
How interruptions can destroy your day

Life

How interruptions can destroy your day

Features
Let there be lightning

Earth

Let there be lightning

Features
Peanut allergy: dining with death

Health

Peanut allergy: dining with death

Features

Table of contents

News

Home-grown circuit to set the pace for faulty hearts

Technology

Home-grown circuit to set the pace for faulty hearts

A "wire" made from a patient's own cells could one day be used to keep electrical impulses flowing in the heart. It may even mean people will no longer have to be fitted with pacemakers. A normal heart has an efficient electrical circuit that sychronises the beats of the atria and ventricles – the chambers …

News

Technology

Pentagon fears enemies may sabotage chips

News

Technology

Telecoms giants threaten freedom and equality on net

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

How to protect solar energy collectors from the wind

News

Technology

Taser deaths to be investigated

News

Life

Weather-wise monkeys are first to the fruit

News

Space

Neptune's hidden asteroid belt

News

Life

How cocaine hijacks the craving brain

News

Life

Web-footed fossils hint at birds' wet past

News

Life

The giant panda bounces back

News

Earth

Fertilisers give the lungs of the planet bad breath

News

Health

The dirty truth about allergies

News

Life

Bats and horses get strangely chummy

News

Life

Sexual gymnast of the plant world

News

Life

Jellyfish mass grave found on bed of Arabian Sea

News

Health

Teasing out "stem cells" from a bag of blood

News

Earth

Quake fears haunt southern California

News

This week 24 years ago

News

Space

Magnetic fields snare black holes' food

News

Earth

Humans have wrecked coral reefs in 30 years

News

Space

Pamela satellite begins searching for antimatter

News

Life

New embryo test cuts disease risk

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Future looks bright for whale hunters

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Kyoto promises are nothing but hot air

News

Life

Chronic fatigue syndrome can kill – official

News

Health

Measles alert at World Cup

News

Earth

Hawaii gets world's largest marine sanctuary

News

Space

Shuttle is go for launch, but not everyone agrees

News

Life

Darwin's patient letter up for auction

News

Space

Infrared telescope may fly – some day

News

Earth

Birds break rules of species distribution

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

The fall of reason in the west

THE triumph of science explains, more than any other single factor, the west's enormous lead over other civilisations in technology, innovation, living standards and military might. Yet since the 1920s, and more particularly since 1970, western misgivings about science have greatly increased. Attacks have come from left and right, from intellectuals and anti-intellectuals, from the …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Catch a whale, save a species

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: How to monitor greenhouse gas emissions

Opinion

Life

Meet the modern-day Fred Flintstone

Opinion

Life

Robots are our friends

Opinion

Features

Amazonia: how life branches out

Life

Amazonia: how life branches out

DUCK LAKE is really little more than a pond. Perched on top of a scrub-studded hill in Amazonia's remote north-western corner, it seems an unpromising place from which to try to kill off one of the 20th century's major biological ideas. But it may be that beneath its water lies the true history of the …

Features

Life

How interruptions can destroy your day

Features

Earth

Let there be lightning

Features

Health

Peanut allergy: dining with death

Features

More

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Sixth form special: Science gives sport a helping hand

BLOWING IN THE WIND THE BIG IDEA: All yacht racers crave the perfect spinnaker – that colourful, billowing sail that pulls a boat when the wind is astern. Unfortunately the airflow round these is so complex that designers usually rely on trial and error for the best results. Now science is coming to the rescue... …

Careers

Sixth form special: Day in the life of a TV researcher

Careers

Sixth form special: Five ways to spend your gap year

Careers

Sixth form special: How to get a science job after school

Careers

Strange science

Careers

Sixth form special: University? Industry? Zoology?

Careers

Equal this

Books & Arts

Fighting the big C

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Sousveillance

Regulars

Life

Consciousness: because you're worth it

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Pretend World Cup trip JUST how World Cup obsessed are your friends and workmates? What would it be worth to prove to them that, yes, you were there when your national team scored that crucial goal? Feedback has just received an email from www.fakealibi.com plugging an offer to provide fake documentation of a World Cup …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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