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21 October 2006

Issue 2574

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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

Histories: Passionate about Pekineses

Features
Reproduction revolution: The conceivable future

Life

Reproduction revolution: The conceivable future

Features
Reproduction revolution: Sex for fun, IVF for children

Life

Reproduction revolution: Sex for fun, IVF for children

Features
Reproduction revolution: The egg and sperm race

Life

Reproduction revolution: The egg and sperm race

Features
Reproduction revolution: Methuselah moms

Life

Reproduction revolution: Methuselah moms

Features
Half-life heresy: Accelerating radioactive decay

Physics

Half-life heresy: Accelerating radioactive decay

Features

Table of contents

News

Electronic map keeps drivers away from jams

Technology

Electronic map keeps drivers away from jams

Few things are more irritating than leaving a busy road to avoid a traffic jam, only to find that everyone else has had the same idea and you are stuck behind yet another queue. Now a smart electronic map has been developed to help drivers find the best route, using information on nearby roads together …

News

Technology

TV bridges broadband gap

News

Technology

MySpace for the dudes in lab coats

News

Technology

Keep your fingers out of my accounts

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

E-voting you can trust

News

Earth

Foreign invaders from the past occupy English countryside

News

Why fat mice are forgetful mice

News

Health

Fighting disease using lessons in grammar

News

Space

Saturn's seething atmosphere revealed

News

Life

Kids hang on to dad's every word

News

Health

There's not much that's special in organic wheat

News

Earth

Gold rushes to build a gold mine

News

Earth

Moon and rain could mean quakes

News

Life

UK fails species in its far-flung territories

News

Life

Cosmetic surgery special: When looks can kill

News

Space

Hopes for lunar ice melt away

News

Life

Biologists want to drop the word 'cloning'

News

Health

War, famine and death go hand in hand

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Unconscious decisions: A life and death dilemma…

News

This week 30 years ago

News

Life

Captured, the sweet scent of happiness

News

Soundbites

News

Space

'Deep Impact II' to blow Europa's cover

News

Life

Japan agrees to cut its tuna fishing quotas

News

Health

Dangerous ship-scrapping in the spotlight

News

Life

Stripped-down bacteria must pay for their keep

News

Civilian impact of Iraq war needs attention

News

Health

Tattoo: The mark of insensitivity

News

Opinion

Interview: Getting inside large-scale online games

Technology

Interview: Getting inside large-scale online games

Edward Castronova has got to be the only person in the world to rescue a failing career by calculating the gross domestic product of a place that doesn't exist. Just four years ago he was teaching at a college that didn't grant PhDs, no one knew his research, and his wife lived out of town. …

Opinion

US science: Doing it for the kids

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Beyond IVF

Opinion

Features

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

Histories: Passionate about Pekineses

The death of a Pekinese dog on New Year's Day 1905 saddened all of London's high society. Pekes were the latest thing, fashionable yet hard to acquire – and Mrs Douglas Murray's prized red peke Ah Cum was top of the tree. Smuggled out of China in 1896 by her husband, who cited the feat …

Features

Life

Reproduction revolution: The conceivable future

Features

Life

Reproduction revolution: Sex for fun, IVF for children

Features

Life

Reproduction revolution: The egg and sperm race

Features

Life

Reproduction revolution: Methuselah moms

Features

Physics

Half-life heresy: Accelerating radioactive decay

Features

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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.

The word: Copyright trap

THE Steinlaus – "stone louse" in English – is a rodent-like mite. According to the German medical dictionary Pschyrembel , it can be used to break down bladder, gall bladder and kidney stones. Research into its uses has progressed rapidly since it was first listed in 1983, and homeopaths have adopted it as a remedy. …

Regulars

Physics

A Beautiful Math: John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature, by Tom Siegfried

Books & Arts

Life

Life: A journal through time, by Frans Lanting

Books & Arts

Life

What's intelligence got to do with it?

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

Armchairs on Mars THE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is fulfilling its promise. At the end of last year the SpaceDaily website reported that the camera would be able to "see things on the planet as small as a dishwasher" (12 November 2005), and Sky and Space magazine declared that "while previous cameras …

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