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12 August 2006

Issue 2564

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Editor's picks

You are made of space-time

Space

You are made of space-time

Features
Histories: The forgery epidemic

Life

Histories: The forgery epidemic

Features
Fell a forest, build a nation

Earth

Fell a forest, build a nation

Features
Wrestling the muscle-bots

Technology

Wrestling the muscle-bots

Features
Life in the deep freeze

Earth

Life in the deep freeze

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.

Life

Debate rages over animal-human chimeras

Should medical researchers be allowed to create human-animal hybrids to investigate disease? No, says an ethics think tank that advises the Scottish Parliament. Yes, says Ian Wilmut of the University of Edinburgh, creator of Dolly the cloned sheep. In its 8 August report, the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics advocates banning embryos containing human and …

News

Life

Interrupted HIV treatment may still work

News

Life

Win for Darwin on Kansas school board

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Drug firm backs vulture recovery plan

News

Integrity of science is in jeopardy

News

Earth

Monet's early smog analysis

News

Life

Confronting the sexual abuse of animals

News

Life

X-rays break the silence of ancient worms

News

Technology

Zap-while-you-scan therapies set sights on cancer

News

Technology

From snapshot to cover model in a single click

News

Technology

Shattered art can be digitally rebuilt

News

Technology

No laser protection for US civil aircraft

News

Technology

A spy in your CD?

News

Health

Fruity hitchhikers leave you heaving

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Grouse-shooting popularity boosts global warming

News

This week 34 years ago

News

Earth

Waterproof rice can outlast the floods

News

Health

Brain growth link to schizophrenia

News

Space

Big bang reconciled with 'missing' lithium

News

Space

If you thought you knew the age of the universe...

News

Life

Ice Age DNA may now be sequenced

News

Life

Malaria parasite's cloak of invisibility

News

Earth

Burying CO2 may solve the problem

News

Life

To avoid being eaten, get smart

News

Soundbites

News

Life

The selfish gene that learned to cooperate

News

Health

Warning over 'boutique' ultrasound scans

News

Space

Big crunches wipe the slate clean

News

Health

What does future hold for drug trial victims?

News

Space

When our moon waxed and waned in a day

News

Life

Geneticists successfully reverse gene evolution

News

Space

Latecomer revs up dark energy race

News

Earth

Escaped golf-course grass frees gene genie in the US

News

Opinion

Who said the internet was fair?

Technology

Who said the internet was fair?

FOR those who fear for the internet's future as an information highway to which everyone has equal access, these are worrying times. "Without a clear policy preserving the neutrality of the internet and without tough sanctions against those who would discriminate, will be forever changed for the worse," wrote Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon on …

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: Loop quantum gravity increases its pull

Opinion

Life

Interview: Saving Shackleton's shacks

Opinion

Life

Hunting living fossils on the ocean floor

Opinion

Features

You are made of space-time

Space

You are made of space-time

Lee Smolin is no magician. Yet he and his colleagues have pulled off one of the greatest tricks imaginable. Starting from nothing more than Einstein's general theory of relativity, they have conjured up the universe. Everything from the fabric of space to the matter that makes up wands and rabbits emerges as if out of …

Features

Life

Histories: The forgery epidemic

Features

Earth

Fell a forest, build a nation

Features

Technology

Wrestling the muscle-bots

Features

Earth

Life in the deep freeze

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.

Hunting for Australia's rich natural resources

IT'S a grey winter's day on Sydney Harbour. Ferry passengers making their way from beachside suburbs to the city are shivering in overcoats and scarves, but for Phil Schmidt of CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, the weather is perfect. "It's not windy. That was the main thing we were concerned about," he says. Schmidt is …

Careers

Life

Out of the Woods: Tales of resilient teens, by Stuart T Hauser, Joseph P Allen and Eve Golden

Books & Arts

Technology

How Invention Begins, by John H Lienhard

Books & Arts

Space

Many Worlds in One: The search for other universes, by Alex Vilenkin

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Imaginary friend

Regulars

Life

Who is the author of your thoughts?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Show me the way to the next whisky box JAPANESE companies are fiercely competitive. So when JVC scored lots of free publicity by announcing a loudspeaker cone made from birch wood soaked in sake, it was inevitable that some rival would try and top the story. Pioneer is first. One of the company's engineers was …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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