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25 November 2006

Issue 2579

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Editor's picks

Cancer: The traitors within

Health

Cancer: The traitors within

Features
Locating, locating, locating

Life

Locating, locating, locating

Features
Living in a world without faces

Life

Living in a world without faces

Features
The solar system, but not as we know it

Space

The solar system, but not as we know it

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

Biospray fights food poisoning

Spraying chicken carcasses with viruses may sound crazy – but if the viruses are harmless to humans but lethal to food poisoning bacteria, it could be a way of making food safer. "In theory, these sprays could be used to wash any carcass in any abattoir," says Paul Barrow of the University of Nottingham, UK, …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Throwing out the garbage, Antarctica-style

News

Technology

Sims put real cities to the test

News

Technology

Sense of self keeps robots on the move

News

Health

Too little oxygen may prompt onset of Alzheimer's

News

Space

Scouring clears up moon puzzle

News

Life

Words come easier after a singalong

News

Life

Homing in on a US naval legend

News

Life

Leggy lizards evolve in fast-forward

News

Technology

Silicon joins the ranks of superconductors

News

Earth

Tall trees once topped Tibet

News

Life

How to live long and prosper

News

Life

Ear implant success sparks culture war

News

Earth

Mount St. Helens has something in her throat

News

Space

Dark-matter particles could 'X-ray' the Sun

News

Health

Beefed-up vaccine hits back at polio

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

174 countries, and no post-Kyoto ideas

News

Soundbites

News

Space

A universe like no other, or is it?

News

Health

This will hurt – and now we know why

News

Life

Male circumcision: A contentious cut

News

Space

Houston, we have tee off

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Inuit sue US government over oil

News

Health

Governments' choice of bird flu vaccines questioned

News

Technology

Silicone breast-implant ban lifted

News

Life

Family fractures linked to schizophrenia

News

Technology

CERN, the giant fridge magnet, is go

News

Anti-terror law hits animal rights activists

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.

Earth

Editorial: The climate won't wait

THE world's governments are sleepwalking to climate disaster. That much is clear from the UN's latest climate conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya. It is increasingly obvious that the minor diplomats and environment ministers in charge of climate negotiations have lost sight of the huge climatic forces that threaten future planetary security. It is high time …

Opinion

Interview: Can we escape the mess we've made?

Opinion

Technology

Bioweapons: In the name of defence?

Opinion

Features

Cancer: The traitors within

Health

Cancer: The traitors within

FOR years, they've been depicted as the good guys. Stem cells help renew many parts of our bodies and, we're told, with a little coaxing might provide cures for anything from Alzheimer's to diabetes. But stem cells can also turn bad. Very bad. Rogue stem cells are now known to be involved in at least …

Features

Life

Locating, locating, locating

Features

Life

Living in a world without faces

Features

Space

The solar system, but not as we know it

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.

Skin: A natural history, by Nina J Jablonsky

SKIN is arguably the body's largest organ (arguably because some purists will try to tell you the lining of the gut has a greater surface area), yet it gets much less attention than, say, the liver or heart. Skin is, as Jablonsky ably illustrates, a marvel of engineering: tough, stretchable, impermeable, pliable, a bacterial and …

Books & Arts

Life

The Story of the Apple, by Barrie E Juniper and David J Mabberley

Books & Arts

It's a woman's world wide web

Careers

Physics

Not just a pretty equation

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Waggle

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback

Famous dead sparrows SADLY, we are not sure we will be able to make it to the Netherlands to visit an exhibition showcasing some rather rare birds at the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam. The Grand House Sparrow Exhibition, which opened on 14 November, is curated by Kees Moeliker, winner of the 2003 Ig Nobel …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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