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28 October 2006

Issue 2575

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Editor's picks

Profile of a sexsomniac

Life

Profile of a sexsomniac

Features
Searching for life in a handful of dust

Life

Searching for life in a handful of dust

Features
The rules of contagion

Life

The rules of contagion

Features
The elephant and the event horizon

Space

The elephant and the event horizon

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.

Life

Smarter tags for the animal underworld

If conservationsist want to know what a wild animal is up to, they fit it with a radio tracker. That's fine if it stays out in the open – but not if it's a burrowing or diving kind of beast. The GPS radio tags currently used to track wild animals and monitor their behaviour don't …

News

Technology

It's the next best thing to a Babel fish

News

Technology

Driven to distraction by your own vehicle

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Wiki's little sister hits the 'shelves'

News

Life

I spy a Cuban dissident

News

Technology

Invisibility cloak is here at last

News

Health

Patient groups special: Swallowing the best advice?

News

Life

Antelope know a good mate when they see one

News

Life

Tame your brain to keep your cool

News

Life

Herds of bison to return to US

News

Life

Ancient human hunters smelt blood on the breeze

News

Health

Stem cell insulin offers hope to type 1 diabetics

News

Physics

Relativity faces toughest ever test

News

Life

Beaked whales dive deepest

News

Health

Ecstasy as a brain booster for Parkinson's?

News

Decision time for America

News

Health

Alzheimer's alert over anaesthetics

News

Life

Honeybees have their genome sequenced

News

Space

Alien-hunters tune in to ET-TV

News

This week 45 years ago

News

Technology

Nuclear security special: Disaster waiting to happen

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Chernobyl haunts the Norwegian uplands

News

Health

Should people be tested for mad cow disease?

News

Stay on the pill, or switch to a coil?

News

Life

Iceland kills its first endangered whale in decades

News

Earth

Global warming may kill fewer species than expected

News

Earth

Ozone hole reaches record proportions

News

Technology

IBM factories linked to boosted cancer risk

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

Armchair warlords and robot hordes

IT SOUNDS like every general's dream: technology that allows a nation to fight a war with little or no loss of life on its side. It is also a peace-seeking citizen's nightmare. Without the politically embarrassing threat of soldiers returning home in flag-wrapped coffins, governments would find it far easier to commit to military action. …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Drug companies in bed with patient groups

Opinion

Editorial: Climate change warms up US elections

Opinion

Life

Interview: Traditional medicine, novel partnership

Opinion

Features

Profile of a sexsomniac

Life

Profile of a sexsomniac

THE first time it happened, Lisa Mahoney woke up to her boyfriend trying to have sex with her. "What are you doing?" she said, pushing him off. "You started it," he said. A few years later, a friend of hers crashed in her bed one night. The next morning he told her that she had …

Features

Life

Searching for life in a handful of dust

Features

Life

The rules of contagion

Features

Space

The elephant and the event horizon

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.

The word: Urban heat island

When the group Lovin' Spoonful sang "hot town, summer in the city" 40 years ago, their lyrics about sidewalks hotter than match heads were particularly apt. Cities, especially in summer, are hotter than the surrounding countryside. They are urban heat islands. Why? Because bricks, concrete and asphalt absorb more heat than vegetation – and fewer …

Regulars

Physics

Brave New Universe, by Paul Halpern and Paul Wesson

Books & Arts

Life

Wild and Fearless, by Natascha Scott-Stokes

Books & Arts

Australian biotech: Views from the inside

Careers

Life

Review: From Counterculture to Cyberculture, by Fred Turner

Books & Arts

A glimpse of infinity

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

Armpit art SEVERAL readers have written to us adding their own examples of what Colum Clarke called "apposite adjacents" at the top of the pages of dictionaries (7 October). Among our favourites are two that Jonathan Ormond found in his Reader's Digest Reverse Dictionary (1989 edition). "Armpit Art", he suggests, sounds like a plausible future …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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