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10 March 2007

Issue 2594

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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.

Life

Can't bite, cant fight

Features
Gone today, hear tomorrow

Health

Gone today, hear tomorrow

Features
Look, no carbon footprint!

Earth

Look, no carbon footprint!

Features
Skin colour: cracking the genetic code

Life

Skin colour: cracking the genetic code

Features
Is the universe a fractal?

Space

Is the universe a fractal?

Features

Table of contents

News

TVs put squeeze on minor metals

Technology

TVs put squeeze on minor metals

Ever heard of the ruthenium rush, the bismuth bonanza or the indium stampede? Demand for cellphones and flat-screen TVs is depleting global supplies of a host of uncommon metals. Indium is built into a billion consumer devices a year, for instance in phone displays, and prices have soared. Some estimates say reserves could run out …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Chip revolution poses problems for programmers

News

Technology

Fighting the US elections – on YouTube and Wikipedia

News

Technology

Tail lights grow in the dark

News

Technology

Bone up with an ink-jet printer

News

Health

Cheating athletes could soon by rumbled by insulin test

News

Technology

Video game may help detect depression

News

Space

Sun sends bumpy asteroids into a spin

News

Technology

Least reflective coating made with nanorods

News

Life

Curves were best for Stone Age women

News

Life

Build a whole new body from one small fragment

News

Earth

Coral holds record of Kenya's past

News

Life

A hint of bitterness curbs birds' greed

News

Life

Why beetles won the evolutionary game

News

Life

Raise my chick, or your eggs get it

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Cancer virus shows its kinder face

News

Life

Rapists snared by sperm-free semen

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

California's cloudbursts pave the way for quakes

News

Earth

Climate report 'was watered down'

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

US aims to break drug industry's hold on pricing

News

Health

The Atkins diet works – a bit

News

Earth

Seismic signals reveal enormous reservoir

News

Life

Teen hormone may aid infertile women

News

Earth

Climate bonanza through ozone-hole healing

News

Life

Snowboarders may be stressing alpine wildlife

News

Health

Rice with human genes to be grown in US

News

Health

Stakes are raised in the battle to beat polio

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

Adult stem cells will not do

THERE is considerable debate in certain circles in the US over whether stem cells from adults will be as effective in treating disease as those from embryos. The White House, which opposes the use of human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) on ethical grounds, argues that we don't need them since adult stem cells show great …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Human genes fine in medicinal crops

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Carbon omissions

Opinion

Life

Interview: In the end, we are all part of one another

Opinion

Features

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Life

Can't bite, cant fight

When Britain went to war with South Africa's Boer republics in 1899, it found itself fighting not one but three enemies. There were the Boers themselves. There was disease: typhoid and dysentery claimed more lives than the fighting. And then there was tooth decay, which cost the army almost as many men as the Boers' …

Features

Health

Gone today, hear tomorrow

Features

Earth

Look, no carbon footprint!

Features

Life

Skin colour: cracking the genetic code

Features

Space

Is the universe a fractal?

Features

More

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Three diverse career paths in physics

The project leader Lyn Evans, project leader for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva Lyn Evans is building the biggest machine in the world. The Large Hadron Collider, a 27-kilometre-long chain of superconducting magnets at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, will be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. By smashing together particles and reading …

Careers

Every garden should have one...

Books & Arts

Life

Review: Beyond War: The human potential for peace, by Douglas Fry

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

Secrets of tachyonisation AH, TACHYONS! Hypothetical faster-than-light particles, or the "pure life-force energy" that is converted by "subtle organizing energy fields into the exact frequencies needed to maintain and restore perfect balance to a life form" that Feedback mentioned back on 9 July 2005? If the latter, people are naturally going to want to know …

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Letters

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