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21 July 2007

Issue 2613

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A sunshade for the planet

Earth

A sunshade for the planet

Features
<i>e</i>: the mystery number

Physics

e: the mystery number

Features
Western medicine doesn't have all the answers

Health

Western medicine doesn't have all the answers

Features
Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution

Health

Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution

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.

Technology

Gizmo

Forget bricks and mortar. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are making a building out of water. Although it has a solid roof, the Digital Water Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain will use 6000 valves spurting water to make "walls" that expand as people fill a room and shrink as they leave. …

News

Technology

The rise of cyberbullying

News

Technology

Speed-of-light computing comes a step closer

News

Technology

How to spot false friends on Facebook

News

Health

Unusual bacteria may trigger Crohn's disease

News

Life

Chance and isolation gave humans elegant skulls

News

Earth

Software recognises dolphins by their whistles

News

Technology

California court voids electronic vote

News

Technology

Summer sun can provide winter heat

News

Earth

Taking the fossil out of fossil fuel

News

Space

Hubble Space Telescope maps minerals on the moon

News

Health

Adolescent rats enjoy cannabis more than their elders

News

Earth

Volcanic jets have deep origins

News

Health

Childhood brain infections risk of schizophrenia

News

Life

Primates on the 'pill'

News

Earth

Climate change linked to a millennium of war in China

News

Health

Florescent scorpion toxin lights up tumours

News

50 years ago: Mail sorting goes electronic

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Meat is murder on the environment

News

Health

Extra genes help mice keep youthful looks

News

Life

Spite is a uniquely human emotion

News

Earth

Megaflood carved the English Channel

News

Physics

Has the dark energy particle been spotted?

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Superheroes fight childhood obesity

News

Medical scans for women may do more harm than good

News

Space

World's largest optical telescope sees first light

News

Maths of Möbius strip finally solved

News

Health

Healthcare is 'financial catastrophe' for millions

News

Earth

Australia announces 'cap and trade' CO2 scheme

News

Technology

Fake documents can buy dirty bomb material

News

Earth

China is saint and sinner of paper industry

News

Opinion

Comment: Let's legalise cloning

Life

Comment: Let's legalise cloning

In many countries, including the UK, human reproductive cloning – creating a baby from the genetic material of a single adult – is a criminal offence. This is not generally seen as controversial: scientific societies , medical groups and governments around the world have condemned the idea of human cloning since the technique was first …

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Cyber-bullying versus online privacy

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Goodbye junk food, hello fruit and vegetables

Opinion

Physics

Interview: Why mathematics is beautiful

Opinion

Features

A sunshade for the planet

Earth

A sunshade for the planet

EVEN with the best will in the world, reducing our carbon emissions is not going to prevent global warming. It has become clear that even if we take the most drastic measures to curb emissions, the uncertainties in our climate models still leave open the possibility of extreme warming and rises in sea level. At …

Features

Physics

e: the mystery number

Features

Health

Western medicine doesn't have all the answers

Features

Health

Remote control brains: a neuroscience revolution

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: Man of the Hole

YOUR friends and family are gone. Everyone else you have ever known has vanished. Forever. The loneliness seems unimaginable. But this is reality for one solitary native Brazilian Indian living on a small island of Amazon rainforest amid a sea of cattle ranches and soya plantations. Virtually nothing is known about him, except that he …

Regulars

Earth

Review: Sea Change by Richard Girling

Books & Arts

Review: The Sleep of Others by Kenton Kroker

Books & Arts

Technology

Review: The story of the people's gun by Michael Hodges

Books & Arts

Review: The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore

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: Strange safety instructions

Tasty radiation THINK twice before following even the most well-meaning advice. Clare Bewick, for example, reports consulting information on "safe disposal of Closed Radioactive Sources" from the Derbyshire Net for Learning, in the English Midlands. "The person responsible for disposing of the sources must wear protective gloves and lab coat at all times whilst handling …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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