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23 June 2007

Issue 2609

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The fight to save Earth's rocks

Earth

The fight to save Earth's rocks

Features
Nanobacteria: The Medusa strain

Life

Nanobacteria: The Medusa strain

Features
The scheming minds of crows

Life

The scheming minds of crows

Features
The second quantum revolution

Physics

The second quantum revolution

Features

Table of contents

News

Nanospheres leave cancer no place to hide

Technology

Nanospheres leave cancer no place to hide

GOLD-coated glass "nanoshells" can reveal the location of tumours and then destroy them minutes later in a burst of heat. Using these particles to detect and destroy tumours could speed up cancer treatment and reduce the use of potentially toxic drugs. It could also make treatment cheaper, says Andre Gobin of Rice University in Houston, …

News

Technology

American Wi-Fi gets off to a bad start

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Point-to-point Wi-Fi brings internet to all

News

Technology

It's robot eat robot at the AI zoo

News

Space

Liquid mirror could be used for Moon-based telescope

News

Technology

Web traffic moves faster in the internet's 'mantle'

News

Earth

Rising sea levels could divide and conquer Antarctic ice

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Could gene therapy help alcoholics stay on the wagon?

News

Technology

Allergy alert over slippery chemical

News

Life

Sense of touch is crucial for empathy

News

Space

Pluto holds its own in the war of the moons

News

Life

Killifish can survive without oxygen for 60 days

News

Life

When did placental and marsupial mammals split?

News

Technology

Vaccine developed for high blood pressure

News

Space

Astronomers look to quark stars for a fifth dimension

News

Life

Males meddle with their twin sisters' love lives

News

Life

Farmers in denial about the real cause of bovine TB

News

Life

Genes won't work round the clock

News

Life

Songbird reveals the secrets of its longevity

News

Health

Create a back-up copy of your immune system

News

Health

US vaccines on trial over link to autism

News

Technology

Pilots "poisoned" by dirty cabin air

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

FDA refuses to approve weight-loss treatment

News

Life

Low-tech tactics winning fight against Guinea worm

News

Space

Space station's lack of back-up computers is questioned

News

Earth

China contemplates restarting tiger trade

News

Physics

Teams argue over particle scoop

News

MIT accused of race bias

News

Earth

Exclusive global warming poll: The buck stops here

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

Prejudice against the stupid is stupid

SNEERING at people's DNA isn't allowed any more. If you refuse someone a job on the basis that their ancestors happened to live in places where dark skin is a useful adaptation to strong sunlight, you will, in civilised countries, be in trouble. We don't enslave people on the grounds of their genetic inheritance, make …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Perceptions of vaccines do matter

Opinion

Life

The joy of parasites

Opinion

Features

The fight to save Earth's rocks

Earth

The fight to save Earth's rocks

ON A RECENT stroll along a deserted Scottish beach, I couldn't resist taking a few of the stripy, egg-shaped pebbles that littered the shore. These will look nice in my garden, I thought as I popped them into my pockets. The words "eco" and "vandalism" never entered my head. That was until I heard about …

Features

Life

Nanobacteria: The Medusa strain

Features

Life

The scheming minds of crows

Features

Physics

The second quantum revolution

Features

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Flat Earth by Christine Garwood

DESPITE the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some people maintain the Earth is flat. This fascinating account examines why. The focus of Garwood's impressive research is a forgotten episode in the history of science – a huge 19th-century kerfuffle caused by a Flat Earth campaign which had Alfred Russel Wallace wading into the fray with …

Books & Arts

Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles, edited by Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, R. A. Coria

Books & Arts

Finding the right biotech employer

Careers

Geek porn or high art?

Books & Arts

Earth

Review: The Earth only Endures: On reconnecting with nature and our place in it by Jules Pretty

Books & Arts

Health

The word: Insulin murder

Regulars

Regulars

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The amazing energy bear HOW much "imaginative" science can be crammed into two sentences? Jane Griffith-Ward directs us to a promising candidate: "Timmy has been developed to re-energise the 'dead' atmosphere in centrally heated indoor rooms – effectively bringing the natural elements from fresh air – inside! Combining gentle magnetic fields in his tummy, with …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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