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16 September 2006

Issue 2569

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The anthropologist's dilemma

Life

The anthropologist's dilemma

Features
How to be a genius

Life

How to be a genius

Features
Global warming: Will the Sun come to our rescue?

Earth

Global warming: Will the Sun come to our rescue?

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

Microwave weapon 'less lethal', but still not safe

The Active Denial System, the Pentagon's "less-lethal" microwave-based crowd-control weapon, produces potentially harmful hotspots when used in built-up areas, and its effects can be intensified by sweaty skin. The flaws call into question the weapon's usefulness in hot conditions, like those in Iraq. The ADS fires a microwave beam intended to heat skin without causing …

News

Earth

Vaporisation could turn landfills into power

News

Life

Plastic bug's genome revealed

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Antisocial robots go to finishing school

News

Earth

Solar alchemy turns fumes back into fuels

News

This week 38 years ago

News

Earth

Pacific holds the key to Indian monsoon

News

Earth

Nitrous oxide – no laughing matter for forests

News

Life

Keeping bacteria from talking may help

News

Technology

Ancient Greeks invented 'quantum dot' dye

News

Earth

Guess the height of the world's tallest tree

News

Technology

Getting rid of wobbles at tiny scales

News

Health

Flu's killer tactic puts families at risk

News

Health

Beware vague feelings of memory loss

News

Life

Island creatures evolve to be great and small

News

Life

How did the chimpanzee cross the road?

News

Life

Drug helps men last longer in bed

News

Health

US life expectancy: the eight Americas

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Faeces on food crops – safer than you'd think

News

Earth

Last chance to stop plant catastrophe

News

Technology

Tracing the limits of quantum weirdness

News

Life

Why we're not immune to losing sleep

News

Life

Viral hitch-hikers that help a fetus survive

News

Earth

Mega-dams back on the agenda

News

Technology

Nuclear power: Return of the atom

News

Space

'Space camp' to beat the bends

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Ultra-lethal TB sends fear through Africa

News

Earth

Do eco-friendly products harm the environment?

News

Health

Spread of flu in US slowed after 9/11

News

Health

Toxic legacy of the 9/11 dust

News

Physics

Benjamin Franklin's 'lightning kite' paper goes online

News

Life

Giant turtle is not a safe menu item

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.

Technology

Innovation: A better way than patents

Innovation is at the heart of the success of a modern economy. The question is how best to promote it. The developed world has carefully crafted laws which give innovators an exclusive right to their innovations and the profits that flow from them. But at what price? There is a growing sentiment that something is …

Opinion

Technology

Living online: The internet could be so much better

Opinion

Technology

Living online: Give it a try

Opinion

Life

Editorial: You could be a genius too

Opinion

Technology

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google

Opinion

Life

Living online: The end of privacy?

Opinion

Technology

Living online: Connected like never before

Opinion

Life

Living online: I'll have to ask my friends

Opinion

Life

Living online: This is your space

Opinion

Features

The anthropologist's dilemma

Life

The anthropologist's dilemma

Another hot and steamy morning in Hanoi. I'm sitting by the city's central lake trying out my clumsy Vietnamese on Hiep, a street child I've known for a few weeks. The heat is making us tired. Sweat is glistening on our foreheads and I'm about to suggest we go and get some ice cream. Then, …

Features

Life

How to be a genius

Features

Earth

Global warming: Will the Sun come to our rescue?

Features

Regulars

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Feedback

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Letters

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