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2 September 2006

Issue 2567

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Editor's picks

Teenagers: Lost in time

Life

Teenagers: Lost in time

Features
Elevator to the stars

Space

Elevator to the stars

Features
Muscles: Don't use them, don't lose them

Life

Muscles: Don't use them, don't lose them

Features
North of the big bang

Space

North of the big bang

Features

Table of contents

News

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Life

Plan to nurture test-tube sharks

Keeping squabbling children apart is a problem that taxes all parents, but for the grey nurse shark it is a little more serious. Its embryos have a nasty habit of eating each other in the uterus. This intra-uterine cannibalism means that despite starting a pregnancy with up to 40 embryos in her two uteruses, a …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

How to keep foods bursting with goodness

News

Technology

Bacteria-driven motor runs on glucose fuel

News

Technology

Brain cells and robotics make a connection

News

Space

Moon game good enough for NASA

News

Technology

Pinning down a gem's true colour

News

Life

Along came a surprise colony of spiders

News

Life

Bluetongue virus licks northern Europe

News

Health

Gut cells produce a 'bug-proof fence'

News

Space

Rogue hot stars discovered in 'boring' clusters

News

Health

How cancer cells cooperate to succeed

News

Life

Ocean plankton absorbs less CO2 than expected

News

Health

The diabetes drugs we didn't know we had?

News

Earth

Arctic Ocean continues to freshen up

News

Health

Enzyme shot restores memory in Alzheimer's mice

News

Life

Cultured chimpanzees pass on their skills

News

Life

Hard surfaces turn stem cells into tough tissues

News

Space

Atomic jitters hint at quantum spume

News

This week 38 years ago

News

Earth

Mould no threat to people of New Orleans

News

Life

Stem cell breakthrough marred by misinformation

News

Life

Evolutionary biology reappears on federal grant list

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Scandal grows over suspect body parts

News

Space

Rows over planetary status are as old as the asteroids

News

Earth

Air conditioning boom threatens Kyoto protocol

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Drugs, crime and a conservation crisis

News

Health

Bird flu research must be shared faster

News

Earth

Oil slick takes its toll on Lebanese coast

News

Space

Probe set to for lunar crash-landing

News

Life

'Morning after' pill made widely available in US

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.

Health

Editorial: So many victims of the drug trade

THINK of a drug victim and the image that typically comes to mind is a junkie OD'ing in some squalid basement. Kris Eggle was about as far from that stereotype as you can imagine. A former college athlete, he was a ranger at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona. In August 2002, he …

Opinion

Space

Pluto is down but not out

Opinion

Technology

Interview: Searching for the next internet hit

Opinion

Life

The things we do for love

Opinion

Features

Teenagers: Lost in time

Life

Teenagers: Lost in time

Wade through the dirty underwear, discarded magazines and half-eaten sandwiches and you find yourself in the heart of the teenager's lair. Despite first impressions, this is a high-tech space, bristling with the latest gadgetry. You may call it a bedroom, but to its owner it is an arcade, complete with computer, TV, games console, CD …

Features

Space

Elevator to the stars

Features

Life

Muscles: Don't use them, don't lose them

Features

Space

North of the big bang

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.

Physics

The Intelligibility of Nature, by Peter Dear

JUST as the body of knowledge evolves over time, so does the way scientists view the world they are explaining. This interplay between knowledge and mental model is the subject of Peter Dear's book. He shows how mechanistic explanations in physics and chemistry became ever more frequent after the industrial revolution, only to be supplanted …

Books & Arts

Space

Go For Launch, by Joel W Powell

Books & Arts

Head of the Wellcome Trust describes his vision

Careers

Life

The word: Startle

Regulars

Welcome to the future that never was

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

Thugs reunited VARIOUS websites promise to track down your old schoolmates and friends so you can get in touch. But what about the ones you don't want to encounter again, like unsavoury former relatives by marriage, or the class thug expelled by the school at age 16 to your great relief? Many US states now …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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