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24 March 2007

Issue 2596

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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

Histories: To Russia with trepidation

Features
Extreme TB: the white plague

Health

Extreme TB: the white plague

Features
Cracking the power-line communication conundrum

Technology

Cracking the power-line communication conundrum

Features
Nanorockets – the ultimate baby boosters?

Space

Nanorockets – the ultimate baby boosters?

Features
Future recall: your mind can slip through time

Life

Future recall: your mind can slip through time

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.

This week 50 years ago

Moon's dust-up Dr Harold Urey, of the University of Chicago, believes that the surface of the moon is covered by dust created by the impact of a mighty flock of planetesimals. Moon dust, of course, is not a new idea. Mr Thomas Gold, also based in the United States, considers that the stuff is being …

News

Physics

Strange patterns appear when suspensions flow over a surface

News

Space

How the Red Planet got two faces

News

Health

Clues to autism revealed in copied genes

News

Health

First step to new immune system

News

Life

Angry faces can be good for the brain

News

Life

Tough bug reveals key to radiation resistance

News

Earth

Cooler climes help spur on evolution

News

Life

Why chickadee calls spook other birds

News

Life

Virtual dining provides tips for cyber characters

News

Technology

Step forward for internet privacy

News

Technology

Farewell fuzzy fingerprinting?

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

If you're happy, the robot knows it

News

Earth

Sea sponge leads way to cheaper solar cells

News

Life

The more bites the better

News

Earth

What's behind the big polar meltdown?

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Fresh questions on stem cell findings

News

Space

Now fly me to the asteroids as well

News

Earth

WWF takes EU fisheries ministers to court

News

Health

Global dispute over drug patents comes to a head

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Egg freezing: A reproductive revolution

News

Earth

Where have all the bees gone?

News

Earth

Former White House aide defends climate fudge

News

Space

Deterioration of the sharpest eyes on Mars has stopped

News

Life

Darwin's take on Gray's anatomy

News

Whistleblower Act to protect rights of scientists

News

Physics

Multidimensional symmetry tamed at last

News

Opinion

Whose wildlife is it anyway?

Earth

Whose wildlife is it anyway?

Thirty years is a long time in the history of threatened wildlife populations in Africa – in Kenya especially so. Since 1977, the country has lost between 60 and 70 per cent of its large wild animals. We know this because 1977 was the year the Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit (KREMU) began to keep …

Opinion

Editorial: TB breaks free of antibiotic control

Opinion

Life

Editorial: A chance to pause the biological clock

Opinion

Life

Turning point: The dying of the light

Opinion

Physics

Interview: The chance of a lifetime

Opinion

Features

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

Histories: To Russia with trepidation

"You are now called, Sir, to the most important employment that perhaps any gentleman was ever intrusted with. To your skill and integrity will probably be submitted no less than the precious lives of two of the greatest personages in the world." Thomas Dimsdale was about to discover the truth about his secret mission to …

Features

Health

Extreme TB: the white plague

Features

Technology

Cracking the power-line communication conundrum

Features

Space

Nanorockets – the ultimate baby boosters?

Features

Life

Future recall: your mind can slip through time

Features

More

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

Boas and Pythons of the World, by Mark O'Shea

NATURALLY we are captivated by the giant boas and pythons of the world. The green anaconda, for example, can grow to an eye-popping 11.5 metres. This book, however, features not only the largest, most well-known snakes, but also the smallest, including the often overlooked and rarely photographed basal snakes, such as wormsnakes, threadsnakes and blindsnakes. …

Books & Arts

Technology

Almost Human: Making robots think, by Lee Gutkind

Books & Arts

Clinical research learns its lessons

Careers

Dark Side of the Universe, by Iain Nicolson

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Productivity puzzle

Regulars

I am a leopard seal. Pray tell me, what are you?

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

Clicks for itches A GADGET from Intelligent Health Systems supposedly "eliminates itchiness and inflammation" from mosquito and other insect bites "in just a few clicks". Mosquito-Click works by piezoelectricity, and its maker claims that "any irritating or poisonous substance introduced under the skin by an insect is altered and therefore inactivated by the application of …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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