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26 August 2006

Issue 2566

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Mathematics: The burden of proof

Physics

Mathematics: The burden of proof

Features
Upcoming colliders: Physics on the edge

Space

Upcoming colliders: Physics on the edge

Features
Hooked: Why your brain is primed for addiction

Life

Hooked: Why your brain is primed for addiction

Features
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Life

Histories: Make me a new nose

Features
Hunting life in Martian rocks

Life

Hunting life in Martian rocks

Features

Table of contents

News

Engineers' trick builds tougher body armour

Technology

Engineers' trick builds tougher body armour

A TECHNIQUE used for centuries to support the weight of buildings and bridges has inspired the development of a new type of armour. The tough, lightweight material is made of a network of microscopic trusses, miniature versions of the triangular scaffolds used to support tall buildings and bridges. The researchers who created the material, at …

News

Life

Egyptian inscriptions saved by software

News

Life

Elephants teach robots to walk

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Lasers advance slowly into the battlefield

News

Technology

Curbs placed on US phone tapping

News

Technology

Human enhancement beyond evolution

News

Life

Rats' noses identify related humans

News

Health

Gene is key to premature birth

News

Space

It takes two to spin giant dust spirals

News

Technology

Speed boost helps quantum codes on their way

News

Life

Only winter bugs get a bird down

News

Life

Cooling towers are a hotspot for evolving disease

News

This week 34 years ago

News

Life

HIV-resistant people give new drug clues

News

Life

The jaws behind the fastest attack in the world

News

Earth

Warming up for a plague outbreak

News

Earth

Buses cause air clean-up backfire

News

Space

NASA selects makers of next-generation spacecraft

News

Physics

Eccentric mathematician shuns prestigious award

News

Health

Sneaky DNA analysis to be outlawed

News

Health

US urged to act against Chaga's disease

News

Health

Viruses to be sprayed on cold meats

News

Earth

Norway loses its appetite for whale meat

News

Life

Butterflies evolve to thwart male killers

News

Earth

Squeeze every raindrop to fight world hunger

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Embryonic stem cells without embryo death

News

Health

Cot death survey points to babies most at risk

News

Earth

The calm before the storm for America's hurricane coasts

News

Earth

Pollutant damages child immunity

News

Earth

America is not the Serengeti

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

'Ether' returns in a bid to oust dark matter

News

Opinion

Where science and poetry meet

Life

Where science and poetry meet

AT THE university where I once taught creative writing, the physics department offered a course known in the common room as Astronomy for Poets. Being somewhat interested in both subjects, I got curious and phoned up the admissions secretary, who sent me a glossy brochure. It included the following bullet-points: discover the secrets of pulsars …

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: Mathematics must evolve

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Caring for war's hidden casualties

Opinion

Life

A forest's life is written on its leaves

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Life and death on the high seas

Opinion

Features

Mathematics: The burden of proof

Physics

Mathematics: The burden of proof

THERE can't be many people that would turn down a Nobel prize. So after the International Mathematical Union announced this week that it was awarding what some consider the mathematical equivalent, the prestigious Fields medal, to the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, it may seem surprising that Perelman has decided to refuse it. He was supposed …

Features

Space

Upcoming colliders: Physics on the edge

Features

Life

Hooked: Why your brain is primed for addiction

Features

Life

Histories: Make me a new nose

Features

Life

Hunting life in Martian rocks

Features

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The word: Eggcorns

DO YOU get "boggled down" trying to explain things in "lame man's terms"? When the "chickens come home to roast" do you find yourself "cutting off your nose despite your face"? Do these errors make you want to "kill over and die"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you have laid …

Regulars

The Lost Men: The harrowing story of Shackleton's Ross Sea party, by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Books & Arts

Life

Alien Invaders: A guide to non-native species of the Britisher Isles, by Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan

Books & Arts

Written on Skin: An Australian forensic casebook by Liz Porter

Books & Arts

Life

God and science: You just can't please everyone

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

Surprising science WHAT makes a scientific paper "surprising" or "unexpected"? Michal Jasienski believes the rapid increase in the frequency of these words in papers' titles is simply a bid by the authors to stand out amid the deluge of publications. Every minute, on average, two papers are added to the Science Citation Index. When Jasienski, …

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