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9 December 2006

Issue 2581

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Editor's picks

Dead zones in the water

Earth

Dead zones in the water

Features
Fold testament: what shape is the universe?

Space

Fold testament: what shape is the universe?

Features

Table of contents

News

Cut-price solar panels follow the Sun

Earth

Cut-price solar panels follow the Sun

The same power from less material A solar panel designed to cut the cost of harnessing the sun's energy will go on the market next year. Its trick is to focus sunlight that strikes the entire panel onto far smaller slabs of the pricey material that turns light into electrical energy. Called Heliotubes, the panels …

News

Technology

The tick, tock of a strontium clock gets steadier

News

Technology

Web hits from my PeerSpective

News

Technology

Carbon nanotubes: dangerous when wet?

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Invented for the military, used to defend wildlife

News

Technology

Cellphone networks could help with road tolls

News

Life

Space rock clue to life's first home

News

Life

Bats have magnetic super-sense too

News

Technology

Avoid airbag injuries, keep kids in the back

News

Earth

Rainforest dwellers get the road to illness

News

Health

Master cells rule the enemy within

News

Technology

A table-top particle accelerator?

News

Life

Chicks and wild ducks dunnit

News

Earth

How Etna's Neolithic hiccup set off a tsunami

News

Life

Eat less, have more immune cells

News

Earth

Dirty cloud over India is no help to region's rice farmers

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Nose model gets a cautious sniff

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

Fashion industry needs to cotton on to green

News

Life

Neanderthals' fight for survival revealed

News

Life

Males with a version of the menstrual cycle

News

Earth

Africa 'barred from carbon trading'

News

Health

New evidence in Libyan HIV trial

News

New chemical laws for the EU

News

How to stop would-be bioterrorists

News

Technology

Nuclear submarines – the ultimate insurance?

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

How scared should we be of polonium?

News

Life

Concrete evidence in Giza's pyramids

News

Earth

Enormous rainforest protection scheme completed

News

Earth

US science teachers refuse climate DVDs

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

Wake up, time for climate action

THE battle to get the US government to accept the evidence of its own scientific advisers on how greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet has reached the highest court in the land. Last week, a case brought by Massachusetts, other states and environmental groups against the US Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the EPA has …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Taking the oceans' breath away

Opinion

Editorial: It pays to keep a little craziness

Opinion

Health

Lone voices special: Hard to swallow

Opinion

Technology

Lone voices special: At play in the multiverse

Opinion

Physics

Lone voices special: Take nobody's word for it

Opinion

Earth

Lone voices special: God said, let the dry land appear

Opinion

Lone voices special: How we know what we know

Opinion

Life

Lone voices special: An unforgettable lesson

Opinion

Life

Lone voices special: Watch out for the UFOs

Opinion

Life

Opinion special: Lone voices in science

Opinion

Features

Dead zones in the water

Earth

Dead zones in the water

The Chesapeake Bay region on the US east coast defines itself largely by its seafood. Blue crab meat is ubiquitous, with the options ranging from crab cakes to crab-topped hamburgers. The watermen are fiercely proud of their fishing heritage, yet many are leery of seeing their children or grandchildren follow them into the business. "My …

Features

Space

Fold testament: what shape is the universe?

Features

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

Not-so-secret island JUST sometimes, opening spam email instead of deleting it unread can be entertaining. Steve Paulsson was intrigued enough to peruse a message headed "Silent Panic at OPEC" and was rewarded with the announcement that "Right now, 4400 residents on this 'Secret Island' pay NOTHING for power. When their free-power technologies go mainstream in …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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