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14 April 2007

Issue 2599

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Editor's picks

They made me do it

Life

They made me do it

Features
Island of trash or the 'Garbage of Eden'?

Earth

Island of trash or the 'Garbage of Eden'?

Features
Ediacarans: the 'long fuse' of the Cambrian explosion?

Earth

Ediacarans: the 'long fuse' of the Cambrian explosion?

Features
Impossible things for breakfast, at the Logic Café

Physics

Impossible things for breakfast, at the Logic Café

Features

Table of contents

News

New York City considers promoting circumcision

Life

New York City considers promoting circumcision

Never a city to trail behind, New York is already considering whether promoting circumcision among the city's men might help limit the spread of HIV there. The procedure has worked wonders in Africa, cutting the infection rate by 60 per cent in circumcised Ugandans, Kenyans and South Africans compared with their intact compatriots. On 28 …

News

Earth

Sushi name and shame game

News

Technology

Float like a robot butterfly

News

Life

Spawn of Microsoft's Clippy wants to help

News

Technology

Pedestrian power could go off grid

News

Technology

Drones to defend US airports

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Who needs radar when magnetic fields will do?

News

Earth

Eel feel helps wave power go with the flow

News

Earth

Fungi come in from the cold to fruit twice a year

News

Life

Taoist alchemy gave warriors their purple patches

News

Life

Whales claim record for longest mammal migration

News

Life

Stress warning for depressed mums-to-be

News

Space

Modified gravity reigns in star bars

News

Technology

Computer-aided breast cancer screening in doubt

News

Earth

Water helps earthquake-ravaged Earth to heal

News

Life

Cute dogs wowed our ancestors

News

Life

Secret of eagles' landing revealed

News

Earth

Wolves go on charm offensive

News

Space

'Axis of evil' a cause for cosmic concern

News

Earth

As polluters quibble, the poor learn their fate

News

60 Seconds

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Health

Obesity's helper in triggering diabetes

News

Earth

Dry future ahead for the US Southwest

News

Life

Mongoose pups make noisy work of sibling unity

News

Soundbites

News

Life

A life of crime takes its toll on health

News

Life

Violent, antisocial, beyond redemption?

News

Earth

Clocks go forward, cars come out

News

Health

US reopens conflict-of-interest drug research cases

News

Technology

Iran's nuclear boast causes international anxiety

News

Earth

Some forests may speed global warming

News

Space

NASA says space find isn't just rocket fuel

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.

Life

Editorial: Swayed by the crowd

BAD things are done by bad people. This in a nutshell is the philosophy behind just about all our social, political and religious institutions. The idea that, aside from mental illness and being too young to know better, people are free to choose how to behave and should be judged accordingly is taken for granted …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Nowhere to turn for climate change deniers

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Butterflies on the front line

Opinion

Earth

Facing climate change: Reasons to be cheerful

Opinion

Features

They made me do it

Life

They made me do it

As aniconic image of human rights abuse, it is hard to equal: a hooded man with electrodes attached to his fingers stands precariously on a small box. One slip and he risks a numbing electric shock. In April 2004 this picture and others showing American soldiers mistreating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad …

Features

Earth

Island of trash or the 'Garbage of Eden'?

Features

Earth

Ediacarans: the 'long fuse' of the Cambrian explosion?

Features

Physics

Impossible things for breakfast, at the Logic Café

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.

The word: Fan death

IS THERE something deadly lurking in your bedroom? Leave an electric fan running overnight with the door and windows shut, and you can suffocate to death. The fan uses up all the oxygen in the room and produces lethal amounts of carbon dioxide. Dozens perish every year. It happened to a friend of a friend. …

Regulars

Physics

The Periodic Table: Elements the style! by Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher

Books & Arts

Space

Stardust from Space, by Monica Grady and Lucia deLeiris

Books & Arts

Does this look like a dream to you?

Books & Arts

Space

Review: Animals in Space: From research rockets to the space shuttle by Colin Burgess

Books & Arts

Einstein on and off the soapbox

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

Unrecognised iris ANYTHING that makes air travel less miserable has to be worth a try, so we jumped at the chance of registering for the fast-track Iris Recognition Immigration System, aka IRIS, being tested by the British government. You register at the airport by looking into a camera that stores your iris pattern and passport …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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