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15 July 2006

Issue 2560

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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

Guess what's coming to dinner

Features
Return of the giant insects!

Life

Return of the giant insects!

Features
Warning signs

Technology

Warning signs

Features
All the pleasure of drinking, without the pain

Life

All the pleasure of drinking, without the pain

Features
Let there be dark matter

Space

Let there be dark matter

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

Overcoming paralysis is a case of mind over matter

A MAN paralysed from the neck down by knife injuries sustained five years ago can now check his email, control a robot arm and even play computer games using the power of thought alone. Matt Nagle's extraordinary abilities first grabbed the headlines in March 2005. Now details of the technology that lets him perform these …

News

Technology

Tissue engineers grow cartilage in the lab

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Gadgets get the feel of the tactile world

News

Technology

Wired-up bugs give fuel cells extra oomph

News

Earth

Satellites track the fires raging beneath India

News

Technology

Crime pays for 'stock spammers'

News

Earth

Dirty old mine has rich seam of drugs

News

Earth

Carbon dioxide's great underground escape in doubt

News

Life

Sex differences run deeper than we think

News

Life

Major flaw in miscarriage test

News

Life

Van Gogh had turbulence down to a fine art

News

Earth

Global warming will hurt Californian wine industry

News

Life

'Handmade cloning' success uses a chopped egg

News

Earth

Biodiesel takes the lead in biofuel battle

News

Health

Neurons return in damaged brains

News

Life

Lone males blamed for gorilla die-offs

News

Life

Plight of the native bumble bee

News

Space

Code cracked on Galileo satellite system

News

Health

Whooping cough makes a comeback

News

Life

Einstein in no-sock shock

News

Health

Company behind UK drug trial debacle folds

News

Life

Prominent cardinal attacks science behind stem cells

News

Life

Famous dead castrato brought out of retirement

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Crunch time for shuttle as safety demands pile up

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Unseen oceans: Revelations from the abyss

News

Life

Subspecies, distinct populations and the fight for land

News

Earth

Trees hiccup methane rather than belch

News

Life

Stem cells turned into sperm

News

Life

Ancient dinosaurs grew hot and cold

News

This week 36 years ago

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

Tall stories and the twisted history of science

I WAS saddened to hear of the death last month of Harriet, the giant tortoise that Charles Darwin reputedly collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835. She died in the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland, where she spent the last two decades of her allegedly very long life. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't mourning …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Pleasure without pain

Opinion

Life

Editorial: We must tell subspecies apart

Opinion

Technology

Interview: The art of living dangerously

Opinion

Features

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

Guess what's coming to dinner

On 16 November 1911, a crowd of expectant diners headed by the wife of US presidential hopeful Woodrow Wilson gathered at Delmonico's, one of Manhattan's most famous restaurants. They were there to enjoy an eight-course dinner laid on by Good Housekeeping magazine. The menus, printed on paper bags, hinted at what was in store: out …

Features

Life

Return of the giant insects!

Features

Technology

Warning signs

Features

Life

All the pleasure of drinking, without the pain

Features

Space

Let there be dark matter

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

After Dolly: The uses and misuses of human cloning by Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield

WHEN Dolly the cloned sheep was unveiled to the world in 1997, it was the most staggering news ever to cross my desk as a reporter. Which is why I so enjoyed this elegantly written inside story of how a living mammal was created for the first time from a specialised adult cell. Ian Wilmut, …

Books & Arts

Technology

Design Like You Give a Damn edited by Architecture for Humanity

Books & Arts

Earth

The word: Hyperacusis

Regulars

Health

Time to turn the tables on 'big food'

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

Red-hot hygeine tip WITHOUT a shadow of a doubt, Arm and Hammer toothpaste will put a complete stop to all decay processes and eradicate odour – if its advertising is an accurate description. Ashley Mason reported a television ad, but Feedback's TV had broken so we did a quick search and turned up the self-explanatory …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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