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24 February 2007

Issue 2592

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Virtual outbreaks, real world ramifications

Technology

Virtual outbreaks, real world ramifications

Features
Genetic road to super-immunity

Health

Genetic road to super-immunity

Features
Green sky thinking: eight ways to a cleaner flying future

Technology

Green sky thinking: eight ways to a cleaner flying future

Features
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Earth

Histories: The wave from nowhere

Features
Soap suds and cosmic secrets

Space

Soap suds and cosmic secrets

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

Kill a cancer by filling it with holes

THEY dispense a thousandth of the power it takes to illuminate a light bulb, yet electrodes inserted into tumours for just 15 minutes could inflict a decisive blow on cancers and other diseases. What's more, they could destroy tumours without inflicting collateral damage on surrounding tissue, unlike treatments such as radiation therapy. When prostate cancer …

News

Earth

Owl survey is a real hoot

News

Technology

One-stop shop for disaster advice

News

Technology

Memory sticks? Swabs, more like

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

Helping troops tell friend from foe

News

Space

Satellites vs. space junk: evening the odds

News

Life

Genetic "barcoding" reveals a slew of new species

News

Life

Australian astronomers expect Martian invasion

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Sex offenders: Throwing away the key

News

Earth

US mobilises for a biofuelled future

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Insight: The grim aftermath of torture

News

Health

Back-up circulation kicks in after stroke

News

Life

While you slumber, your brain puts the world in order

News

Life

It pays to be well hung, if you're a rat

News

Space

Dark matter may be the death of Milky Way

News

Life

Jays travel in time to be sure of breakfast

News

Earth

Birds of prey are a pollution magnet

News

Life

IVF babies draw short straw on birth defects

News

Health

Garlic crush that's good for the heart

News

Health

No more gaps with home-grown teeth

News

Will ID cards make everyone a suspect?

News

Genetic privacy protected by law

News

Technology

Radiation warning gains skull and crossbones

News

Earth

International climate angst is growing

News

Fatal attraction of the US

News

Opinion

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Life

Health checks for women, not shots

CHILDREN and vaccines can be a controversial combination when it comes to forming public policy. Where the vaccine concerned is designed to protect against a sexually transmitted infection, expect fireworks. The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is feeling the heat from religious groups and concerned parents after signing an order on 2 February requiring …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: The uncomfortable truth about sex crimes

Opinion

Space

Turning point: The angel that flew to the Moon

Opinion

Life

Interview: Once more with feelings

Opinion

Features

Virtual outbreaks, real world ramifications

Technology

Virtual outbreaks, real world ramifications

UNTIL that fateful day, 20 September 2005, the disease was unknown. But once the outbreak began, its effects were devastating. For many, the infection was lethal. Dying victims oozed contaminated blood through their skin and anyone coming into contact with it quickly succumbed. It all began when a group of adventurers encountered a deadly virus …

Features

Health

Genetic road to super-immunity

Features

Technology

Green sky thinking: eight ways to a cleaner flying future

Features

Earth

Histories: The wave from nowhere

Features

Space

Soap suds and cosmic secrets

Features

More

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The scientist behind a revolutionary fuel cell

CONSIDER where you might find the headquarters of a company that is set to change the way we all power and heat our homes. This company, Ceres Power, has designed a very clever bit of technology that could slash our heating bills and even dish out electricity for free, all for the cost of a …

Careers

Life

Culturing Life: How cells became technologies, by Hannah Landecker

Books & Arts

Physics

The certainty of chance

Books & Arts

Health

Penicillin: Triumph and tragedy, by Robert Bud

Books & Arts

Earth

The word: Terroir

Regulars

Life

Review: An illusion of Harmony: Science and religion in Islam, by Taner Edis

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

ET saves the planet THE solution to global warming has turned up in Feedback's spam filter. Stephen Bassett, director of the Paradigm Research Group, has written an open letter to climate activist Al Gore, copying the letter all over the place – which is why our computer intercepted it as spam. Bassett claims the US …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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