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26 May 2007

Issue 2605

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Ideas: the lifeblood of cities

Life

Ideas: the lifeblood of cities

Features
Earth's natural wealth: an audit

Earth

Earth's natural wealth: an audit

Features
Do animals have emotions?

Life

Do animals have emotions?

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.

Life

Animal/human 'cybrid' embryos get the OK

Don't say hybrid: say cybrid. That's the new name for an embryo created by combining genetic material from humans with eggs from other animals, most likely rabbits or cows. The terminology could help sidestep the UK's ban on the creation of embryos containing both animal and human genes – and it seems to be working. …

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Noise keeps spooks out of the loop

News

Technology

Jet pilots can now fly in virtual formation

News

Life

Internet censorship on the rise

News

Life

New forensic technique points finger at smokers

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

Technology casts disability in a different light

News

Life

Largest-ever shipwrecked treasure found off UK

News

Earth

New nuclear facilities could be in your backyard

News

Earth

Angry shareholders urge Exxon to get green

News

Health

California set for stem cell bonanza

News

Health

Is the stand-off over bird flu virus over?

News

Earth

Wildlife will feel the heat of global warming

News

Health

Gene in the frame for autism

News

Space

Solar wind becomes fractal when stormy

News

Technology

How the brain can hear shapes

News

Space

Congestion gives clue to black holes' weight

News

Life

Singing whales like a big audience

News

Earth

Have hurricanes met their match in El Niño?

News

Life

Superpoison's genetic blueprint is revealed

News

Earth

Volcano's swelling girth could pinpoint eruption

News

Earth

Hormones in the water devastate wild fish

News

Life

Ancient gene kit came in handy for limbs

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Life could exist in a collapsing universe

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Magnets may make the brain grow stronger

News

Health

Super-antibodies fight off malaria

News

Space

Do magnetic fields drive dark energy?

News

Health

Bugs struck down by 'super-oxidised' water

News

Earth

Firestorm from space wiped out prehistoric Americans

News

Opinion

The creationist museum of misinformation

The creationist museum of misinformation

AN INTERESTING cultural experiment is taking place in Petersburg, Kentucky. It will shed light on the following question: how much money and glitz does it take to institutionalise a lie about science? Of course, "buying" reality is not a new idea, especially in politics. Nor are institutional attacks on science, from the Nazi campaign against …

Opinion

Health

Virus stand-off means we all lose

Opinion

Life

Interview: The cosmos as canvas

Opinion

Features

Ideas: the lifeblood of cities

Life

Ideas: the lifeblood of cities

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright compared cities to living organisms "How in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city," said the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in a 1904 speech. He proceeded to elaborate on his metaphor of a city as a living organism: …

Features

Earth

Earth's natural wealth: an audit

Features

Life

Do animals have emotions?

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

The word: Arribada

THE beach is totally deserted. Suddenly, and seemingly out of nowhere, reptiles emerge in their thousands from the sea, clambering onto the sand. A few days later, they're gone again. It's cited as one of the most spectacular manifestations of reptile life anywhere: the arribada. “Reptiles emerge in their thousands from the sea” Arribada is …

Regulars

Wisdom of washing

Books & Arts

Three-square

Books & Arts

Career guidance from a top neuroscientist

Careers

Health

Cancer Activism: Gender, media and public policy by Karen Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow

Books & Arts

Technology

Snipers, Shills & Sharks: eBay and human behaviour by Ken Steiglitz

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Snake from outer space SPOTTED by Ian Lewis in the London Daily Mail 's recent report on a dead 6-metre python discovered by a path in the north of England: "Baffled police are trying to find out how the fully grown reptile wound up in the village of Cloughton near Scarborough, a million miles from …

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Regulars

Letters

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