Subscribe now

This week's magazine

9 June 2007

Issue 2607

New Scientist issue 2607 cover
Previous issue Next issue
arrow
Subscribe
Access our magazine content direct via our website, app or print magazine
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Unbreakable: the tough secrets of nature's glue

Life

Unbreakable: the tough secrets of nature's glue

Features
Video broadcast flags: The sequel

Technology

Video broadcast flags: The sequel

Features
Galapagos tortoises: untangling the evolutionary threads

Earth

Galapagos tortoises: untangling the evolutionary threads

Features
Life – but not as we know it

Life

Life – but not as we know it

Features

Table of contents

News

Battlefield 'Bear' robot to rescue fallen soldiers

Technology

Battlefield 'Bear' robot to rescue fallen soldiers

"I WILL never leave a fallen comrade." So states the US Soldier's Creed, and true to that vow, 22-year-old Sergeant Justin Wisniewski died in Iraq last month while searching for soldiers abducted during an ambush on 12 May. A remote-controlled robot that will rescue injured or abducted soldiers, without putting the lives of their comrades …

News

Technology

Balance chip keeps you rock steady

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Denial-of-service attacks: street crime on the web

News

Technology

Data stored in live neurons

News

Earth

US loath to give up gas guzzlers

News

Earth

Software predicts if chemicals will biodegrade

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

Japan loses ground on whaling ban

News

Life

Elephants only heed warning calls from local herds

News

Earth

Global warming is speeding up ocean waves

News

Earth

Ice ages dried up African monsoons

News

Life

Good news you may want to forget

News

Life

Polynesians took chickens to the Americas 100 years before Columbus

News

Health

Folic acid can lower stroke risk by 30%

News

Life

Dedicated birds duet to protect territory

News

Life

Fetuses could have 'mature' immune system

News

Space

Quantum communication sets new distance record

News

Soundbites

News

Environment

US Southwest could be heading for a megadrought

News

Health

Stem cells: From adult to embryo

News

Life

Secret fission papers were too hot to handle

News

Space

Quantum quirk may reveal early universe

News

Life

Walking on two legs evolved surprisingly early

News

Health

Sugar supplement may treat immune disease

News

Health

XDR-TB carrier causes US health scare

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Up to 900 species of land bird at risk by 2050

News

Earth

George W. Bush – climate saviour or sinner?

News

Health

Reprieve for HIV medics in Libya still possible

News

Earth

'Nuclear winter' could bring years of failed crops

News

Earth

Developing countries more worried about emissions

News

Health

US doctor smeared for raising drug concerns

News

Opinion

Forest destruction: The road to ruin

Earth

Forest destruction: The road to ruin

DOZENS of Indonesians killed by landslides this spring have paid the price of unchecked development. Many other innocents in developing nations die each year as rampant illegal logging and deforestation denude steep hillsides, loosening soil and allowing heavy rains to create deadly deluges. Such environmental perils are increasingly common across much of the world as …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Stem cell therapies without tears

Opinion

Editorial: Should scientists boycott Israel?

Opinion

Health

Turning point: Always fight

Opinion

Life

Interview: Scents, soaps and birdsong

Opinion

Life

Perspectives: The secret power of things we hold dear

Opinion

Features

Unbreakable: the tough secrets of nature's glue

Life

Unbreakable: the tough secrets of nature's glue

WHEN Paul Hansma looks at a zoomed-in image of a human bone, he sees nature's toughness – and its frugality. The close-up reveals bits of collagen and tiny mineral particles coated with glue, as well as lots of dark, empty spaces. In this arrangement, the biophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognises what …

Features

Technology

Video broadcast flags: The sequel

Features

Earth

Galapagos tortoises: untangling the evolutionary threads

Features

Life

Life – but not as we know it

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.

Making God good

INTELLIGENT design (ID) is not just bad science, it is bad religion, says Francisco Ayala, and he should know: he once trained for the Catholic priesthood, and is now an evolutionary biologist. This sensitive book is an attempt to do what many – Richard Dawkins on one side, the pope and creationists on the other …

Books & Arts

Live like a penguin

Books & Arts

Head candy

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Wine cellar mould

Regulars

Life

Nonplussed: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas by Julian Havil

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

Feedback

Inside men's minds IF YOU thought that men's magazines serve up a diet of scantily clad women and tips on sexual performance because that's all men are interested in, think again. According to a statement issued by the UK Guild of Health Writers, what men really want to read about is osteoporosis, breast cancer (which …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop