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11 November 2006

Issue 2577

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Editor's picks

Death of the autopsy

Health

Death of the autopsy

Features
Blueprint for a Neanderthal

Life

Blueprint for a Neanderthal

Features
Gravity's secret

Space

Gravity's secret

Features
Buyer beware: the rise of food fraud

Earth

Buyer beware: the rise of food fraud

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

Has Netflix given away the answers in its software competition?

THERE's $1 million at stake in a competition being run by an online DVD rental firm. If you are thinking of entering, you might want to take note of an analysis by two computer scientists which has revealed a loophole that could be used as a cheat's charter. Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, is …

News

Technology

Should service providers pay for net attacks?

News

Home-schooling special: Preach your children well

News

Life

Take a leaf out of nature's book to tap solar power

News

Technology

Virtual cities come alive in 3D

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Quick trick to pick up oil slicks

News

Space

Space elevators could be a risky ride

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Cell transplant may restore lost sight

News

This week 12 years ago

News

Life

Kill the dingoes, and other species pay the price

News

Life

Gorillas missing link in HIV mystery

News

Health

Fever might make you better

News

Health

Ebola heads for last great apes

News

Space

Gas explosions may change the face of the moon

News

Health

Are we prescribing HIV drugs properly?

News

Space

Cosmic particle accelerator may be galaxy clusters

News

Life

'Uterus transplant could be tomorrow'

News

Life

Spiders with a chilli-flavoured bite

News

Earth

The poor will pay for global warming

News

Earth

Ice-age genome project faces cold storage

News

Earth

Glimmer of hope for 'doomed' fish

News

Life

Australian crocs head upstream

News

Space

Has Europe's satnav system got lost?

News

Life

Painkillers turned bird killers

News

Health

International coalition aims to fight flab

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

True cost of cluster bombs

News

Health

Libyan verdict date set for Bulgarian medics

News

Earth

IEA's U-turn on energy growth

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

Europe's scientists must make themselves heard on animal experimentation

INSULIN is estimated to have saved the lives of over 5 million diabetics. It was discovered by Frederick Banting and his colleagues in Toronto in 1922, through experiments on dogs and rabbits. Cardiac surgery is only possible because of the heart-lung machine, which bypasses the blood circulation to the heart and allows it to be …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: For cod's sake, act now

Opinion

Physics

Turning point: Back to my future

Opinion

Life

Survival of the nicest

Opinion

Life

Interview: The harmless people

Opinion

Features

Death of the autopsy

Health

Death of the autopsy

A 49-year-old man is admitted to hospital in Japan with chest pains and a partially paralysed arm. Doctors diagnose a simultaneous heart attack and stroke and the patient seems to respond well to treatment. The next day, however, he has a cardiac arrest, and later dies. The autopsy reveals that all along he'd had an …

Features

Life

Blueprint for a Neanderthal

Features

Space

Gravity's secret

Features

Earth

Buyer beware: the rise of food fraud

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

Oppenheimer: The tragic intellect, by Charles Thorpe

HE IS known as the father of the atomic bomb, but J. Robert Oppenheimer was much more than that. As scientific director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory during the second world war, Oppenheimer was a social symbol, a "nodal point" where scientific, political and military interests clashed. It is this sociological aspect of …

Books & Arts

Life

Moths That Drink Elephants' Tears, by Matt Walker

Books & Arts

Technology

Shattered Nerves, by Victor Chase

Books & Arts

Life as a lab technician

Careers

Space

Review: Dark Side of the Moon and The Man Who Ran the Moon

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Egosurfing

Regulars

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

No sex, we're NASA NASA views human space flight as an entirely chaste activity and doesn't want to know about any of the rumours that someone has "done it" in orbit. Press officers at the agency couldn't find any officials willing to talk about the subject when Laura Woodmansee told them she was researching a …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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