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17 March 2007

Issue 2595

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Editor's picks

A wee drink for thirsty astronauts

Space

A wee drink for thirsty astronauts

Features
Welcome to life on the tiniest scales

Life

Welcome to life on the tiniest scales

Features
Are we born prejudiced?

Life

Are we born prejudiced?

Features
The illusion of reality in a quantum world

Physics

The illusion of reality in a quantum world

Features

Table of contents

News

Micro-implants restore movement to paralysed limbs

Technology

Micro-implants restore movement to paralysed limbs

People left paralysed by a stroke could soon get some movement back thanks to artificial neurons that stimulate muscle in a coordinated way. Dubbed BIONs, the injectable devices the size of rice grains are already used to stimulate muscles to stop them wasting away. Now their developer, Gerald Loeb of the University of Southern California, …

News

Technology

Life or death? Let software choose

News

Space

Pit stops in space to fuel future craft

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Fuel cells set to switch trains onto a greener track

News

Technology

Robotic amphibian takes to the water

News

Space

Has Galileo lost its way?

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Sound principles guided design of Greek amphitheatres

News

Space

Icy chips off the old asteroid block

News

Life

'Trust' hormone helps mind-reading too

News

Life

Lack of sleep hits night owls hard

News

Life

Listen up, says caterpillar, I'm quite disgusting

News

Space

No such thing as a constant constant?

News

Life

Cells that wagged Pavlov's dogs

News

Health

Genome's guardian gets a tan started

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Tiny organisms remember the way to food

News

Health

TB vaccine ain't what it used to be

News

Health

New twist in tale of BSE's beginnings

News

Life

Pharaoh's pots give up their secrets

News

Life

The snake that hears sound through its jaw

News

Earth

Cheap coal threat to global climate

News

Life

Diaries of Darwin's wife revealed

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

The universe is a string-net liquid

News

Earth

Are we eating Latin America's primate population?

News

Health

US drops plans for anti-radiation drug

News

Health

Anaemia drug must not be abused

News

Iran's archaeological sites damaged by bacteria

News

Space

Take a virtual tour of Mars

News

Health

Soft-drink quaffers consume the most calories

News

Opinion

Are you fit to call yourself an expert?

Are you fit to call yourself an expert?

As our well-being, and lives, grow ever more dependent on developments in science and technology, making good decisions about the issues involved is crucial. So we should be very careful about who we allow to judge, says Harry Collins A SCIENTIST mentions in a radio discussion that there might be a gene for terrorism. Next …

Opinion

Earth

Fake fights are not helping climate science

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: US must incentivise carbon cuts

Opinion

Life

Editorial: We must face our prejudicial urges

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Sowing the seeds of survival

Opinion

Features

A wee drink for thirsty astronauts

Space

A wee drink for thirsty astronauts

AT THE bar in any exclusive hotel, you expect the price of your drink to sting. But $3000 for a glass of water? Ouch. That's the price tag in the most exclusive hotel of all – the International Space Station. Ferrying fresh water up to the station's astronauts equates to a bar bill of millions …

Features

Life

Welcome to life on the tiniest scales

Features

Life

Are we born prejudiced?

Features

Physics

The illusion of reality in a quantum world

Features

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Eye of the beholder

New York artist Devorah Sperber has always been fascinated by the science behind vision, curious to understand how viewers experience her artwork. "As a visual artist," she says, "I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic than the act of seeing." To explore the process of sight, Sperber recreates famous works …

Books & Arts

Life

Silent Fields: The long decline of a nation's wildlife, by Roger Lovegrove

Books & Arts

Physics

A Measure of All Things, by Ian Whitelaw

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Edible insects

Regulars

Life

Mathematical models are no way to save the planet

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

Armour-piercing ice cream ONE of the unwritten rules of public relations is that friendly images can make nasty things seem less so. However, this example from Ames Laboratory in Iowa leaves Feedback's head echoing with cognitive dissonance: "Armour-piercing projectiles made of depleted uranium have caused concern among soldiers storing and using them. Now, scientists at …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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