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3 March 2007

Issue 2593

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Editor's picks

Reading fiction with Darwin's eyes

Life

Reading fiction with Darwin's eyes

Features
War of the worms

Earth

War of the worms

Features
Inside inflation: after the big bang

Space

Inside inflation: after the big bang

Features
The Neanderthal within

Life

The Neanderthal within

Features

Table of contents

News

Mother robot tops up her kids' flagging batteries

Technology

Mother robot tops up her kids' flagging batteries

Even the most intelligent robot is useless without power. While advanced robots like Honda's Asimo regularly astonish audiences with their dexterity, the power-hungry humanoid needs a change of battery after only 40 minutes. For future robots to perform useful tasks, such as undertaking construction work or exploring disaster zones, they will need smarter ways to …

News

Technology

Dump the TV set, watch the web instead

News

Physics

Moslem tilers were hundreds of years ahead of their time

News

Technology

Used cooking oil could be turned into cosmetics

News

Earth

Catalyst recycles waste methane into plastics

News

Technology

Changing road markings at the click of a mouse

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

Better forecasting to predict magnetic solar storms

News

Earth

Modified salmon aren't so tough out of the tank

News

Life

Head to Tibet for a taste of Mars

News

Technology

HIV acquires a nano-enemy

News

Life

Kill the sperm, spare the irritation

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Asthma linked to hybrid immune cell

News

Health

How common viruses can turn cells cancerous

News

Life

A taste for milk shows evolution in action

News

Life

People see pets through rose-tinted glasses

News

Health

Ginkgo could aid memory formation

News

Earth

Mountain frogs succumb to high-flying pesticides

News

Earth

Lead in bullets threatens recovery of condor

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Natural birth control is slippery but effective

News

Life

Wild chimps use spears to hunt bush babies

News

Life

Sweaty wrestlers may boost risk of hepatitis B

News

Technology

A drug to fend off radiation

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Higgs boson: Glimpses of the God particle

News

Life

Discovering the tomb of Jesus, wife and son

News

Earth

Hidden life under Larsen ice revealed

News

Health

Can vitamin supplements do more harm than good?

News

Earth

Tracing poachers with tusk DNA

News

Space

Iran launch: space shot or political stunt?

News

Opinion

Interview: How we tell right from wrong

Life

Interview: How we tell right from wrong

Marc Hauser Audio: We devote a full episode of our weekly podcast, SciPod, to exploring Marc Hauser's work on the "moral organ" and what it means to our notions of justice and fair play. Listen to it here (mp3 format) . In a hospital emergency room, five critically ill patients desperately need organ transplants. A …

Opinion

Life

Let's not go back to nature

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: Higgs with a difference

Opinion

Life

We're not unique, just at one end of the spectrum

Opinion

Features

Reading fiction with Darwin's eyes

Life

Reading fiction with Darwin's eyes

MARXIST, radical feminist, Foucauldian, deconstructionist, post-colonial and queer. It reads like the fight card for an ideological battle royal. In fact, these are some of the major schools of thought in literary criticism from the past 40 years – and they have much in common. Central to these and all other approaches to understanding literature …

Features

Earth

War of the worms

Features

Space

Inside inflation: after the big bang

Features

Life

The Neanderthal within

Features

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Jobs in pharma: Basic skills are key

YOU'VE probably heard about revolutionary antibody treatments for cancer and the excitement surrounding disciplines such as proteomics. Perhaps you fancy yourself as one of tomorrow's pioneers who will exploit our knowledge of the human genome to create medical breakthroughs for AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer's. There is no doubt that the pharmaceutical industry needs smart scientists …

Careers

Life

Review: The Dawkins Delusion, by Alister McGrath, with Joanna Collicutt McGrath

Books & Arts

Life

The Final Letters of Captain Scott – an exhibition

Books & Arts

Space

State of the Universe 2007, edited by Martin Ratcliffe

Books & Arts

Technology

The word: Typosquatting

Regulars

Life

Review: Digging up the Dead: Uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon, by Druin Burch

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

Horse-drawn solar power HERE is a heart-warming little story for the greens among us. Occasionally, Hester Lacey tells us, she happens across some of the very few remaining horse-drawn travellers down the back lanes of Dorset in the rural south-west of England. These travellers, she says, live one of the greenest lifestyles available in the …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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