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28 July 2007

Issue 2614

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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.

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Histories: The man who mended hearts

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Mars: What flows beneath

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Mars: What flows beneath

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Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now

Earth

Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now

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Superhuman: what gives elite athletes the edge?

Life

Superhuman: what gives elite athletes the edge?

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Table of contents

News

Womb-on-a-chip may boost IVF successes

Life

Womb-on-a-chip may boost IVF successes

Can conception, the most intimate of human experiences, be automated? Teruo Fujii of the University of Tokyo in Japan and his colleagues are building a microfluidic chip to nurture the first stages of pregnancy. They hope, eventually, to create a fully automated artificial uterus in which egg and sperm are fed in at one end …

News

Technology

Cheap 'polymer' opal could fight fake currency

News

Technology

Evolutionary algorithms now surpass human designers

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Number-cruncher kills off checkers

News

Technology

Man takes on machine at poker

News

Technology

Cheap microphones listen for landmines

News

Life

Dinosaurs' slow rise to world domination

News

Environment

Ravenous jumbo squid take to California

News

Technology

Trick of light advances quantum computing

News

Earth

Iodine enters the climate-change mix

News

Earth

Earth's crust is just like pizza dough

News

Health

Less pain is more gain for gym junkies

News

Health

Spontaneous mutation may explain autism puzzle

News

Health

Vaccine stops ovarian cancer coming back

News

Health

Vaccine could halt deadly amoeba in its tracks

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Technology

Insight: Where not to build nuclear power stations

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Building for a cooler planet

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Global warming is changing the world's rain

News

Health

'Cancer drug' site shut down

News

Health

Human skin to replace animal tests

News

Space

Our local black hole may have a baby brother

News

Health

Blocking insulin may curb Alzheimer's

News

Life

Vital rainforest experiment under threat

News

Health

Libya sends foreign medics home

News

Space

Moon and Mars robots in Arctic tests

News

Space

Space station crew dump trash overboard

News

Health

Cot death controversy reopened

News

Life

Bold scheme to save rare seabirds

News

Opinion

Comment: Don't vote for scientific ignorance

Comment: Don't vote for scientific ignorance

WHEN 10 Republican candidates for the next US president were asked in their first Presidential Debate in May whether they believe in evolution, three of them – Kansas senator Sam Brownback, Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Colorado representative Tom Tancredo – answered no. This might shock many New Scientist readers, but among the US public …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: A gene for restless legs?

Opinion

Technology

Interview: The shape of android robots to come

Opinion

Features

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.

Health

Histories: The man who mended hearts

Asked to name the greatest scientific achievements of the 1960s, it's a fair bet most people will list two that remain as awe-inspiring now as they were then: landing men on the moon and giving a dying man a new heart. When Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, he made headlines around …

Features

Space

Mars: What flows beneath

Features

Earth

Huge sea level rises are coming – unless we act now

Features

Life

Superhuman: what gives elite athletes the edge?

Features

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Technology

Review: Glut by Alex Wright

GLUT is a readable romp through the history of information processing, from the origins of writing to the emergence of libraries and finally the World Wide Web. It has aspirations to be more, though, putting this history in the context of human cultural evolution and psychology . Wright also argues that advances in information technology …

Books & Arts

Review: Mind, Life and Universe

Books & Arts

Physics

The word: Silicon balls

Regulars

Physics

Review: How Mathematicians Think by William Byers

Books & Arts

Earth

Second sight: An early geological map of Scotland

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Recursive dreams READER Leigh Bunting was dreaming one morning in the spring. He can't remember what the dream was about, but he does remember waking to find the bedroom door shut. This was odd, because usually it isn't. It was so odd that it woke Bunting from the dream of waking – at which point …

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