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14 October 2006

Issue 2573

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Editor's picks

Solar sailing – poised to take off

Earth

Solar sailing – poised to take off

Features
Light at the end of the tunnel

Life

Light at the end of the tunnel

Features
Meet my android twin

Life

Meet my android twin

Features
Imagine Earth without people

Earth

Imagine Earth without people

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Picture a day in the life of a cell

Imagine feeding a mouse and then watching where its cells use the nutrients, or seeing how parts of a kidney cell respond to stress. Such detailed images are now possible using a technology called multiple isotope imaging mass spectroscopy, says Claude Lechene at Harvard University. An ion beam is fired at a biological sample, ripping …

News

Life

Aircraft go with less of a boom

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Artificial limbs wired direct to the brain

News

Technology

Is it a bird? No, it's a perching plane

News

Technology

Detecting art fakes at a stroke

News

Health

Maggot juice – just what the doctor ordered

News

Technology

Bioterror special: Friend or foe?

News

Earth

Earth's wobble killed off mammal species

News

Life

Clues to disease in stink bug baby food

News

Life

It's a hobbit... no, it's a human... no, it's a hobbit

News

This week 14 years ago

News

Earth

Is Venezuela's pipeline the highway to eco-hell?

News

Life

Difficult atmosphere for finding aliens

News

Space

Quasar workings revealed by gravitational lensing

News

Health

Mercury may contribute to premature birth

News

Earth

Paddies offer answer to greenhouse gas splurge

News

Soundbites

News

Space

Cosmic rays know their limits after all

News

Health

Damaged hearts helped by double drug treatment

News

Space

Shuttle Atlantis took tiny impact in orbit

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

More crops for Africa as trees reclaim the desert

News

Technology

Nuke test sends shock waves round world

News

Space

Mars rover prepares for its grand finale

News

Earth

Trouble in Darwin's paradise

News

Earth

World slips further into the 'eco-red'

News

Space

US takes unilateral stance in new space policy

News

Earth

WHO issues targets to cut air pollution

News

Life

Free stem cells for all?

News

Life

In praise of bear farms

News

Health

Big pharma calling journals' shots?

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

Mass hysteria: Terror's hidden ally

IN DECEMBER 2005 pupils and teachers at a school in the Shelkovsk region of Chechnya reported that they were suffering respiratory difficulties, seizures and fainting. The symptoms, which quickly spread to schools in surrounding villages, did not respond to medical treatment. Eventually close to 100 people were affected, mainly adolescent girls. The Chechens, traumatised by …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: 'Dual-use' biotech – proceed with caution

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: It takes two to keep a nuclear bargain

Opinion

Space

Brian May: Music and the stars

Opinion

Life

The animal roots of human morality

Opinion

Features

Solar sailing – poised to take off

Earth

Solar sailing – poised to take off

On sunlight alone the Solar Sail cruises at 5 knots. Raising the sails can add another 3 knots Sailing with the sun This is surely a Hollywood movie-in-waiting. It's a heartwarming story about a country doctor with an obsession for sailing, the generosity of the people in the small town where he lived, and an …

Features

Life

Light at the end of the tunnel

Features

Life

Meet my android twin

Features

Earth

Imagine Earth without people

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.

Leonardo, in his own hand

TODAY, with graphics software to do the hard work for us, we take for granted the ability to generate and manipulate complex images. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) had to rely on pen and paper to represent and understand the world, which makes the achievements of this artistic and engineering genius all the more remarkable. Manipulating …

Books & Arts

Life

The curious life of a polymath

Books & Arts

Life

The Story of Blanche and Marie, by Per Olov Enquist

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Hot flowers

Regulars

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

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

The 2006 Ig Nobel prizes FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out last week at Harvard University in a ceremony produced by the Annals of Improbable Research that featured a mini-opera, Inertia makes the world go round . We can't help feeling a little proud that we spotted a couple of the prize-winning …

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Letters

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