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8 December 2007

Issue 2633

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Editor's picks

Solar power: The future's bright

Solar power: The future's bright

Features
Reclaiming the peppered moth for science

Life

Reclaiming the peppered moth for science

Features
Mass extinctions: The Armageddon factor

Earth

Mass extinctions: The Armageddon factor

Features
Diary of a human 'lab rat'

Life

Diary of a human 'lab rat'

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

Going out is no excuse for not doing the housework, says South Korean company Yujin Robot. It is launching a vacuum cleaning robot that you steer around your home using the keypad and video screen of a 3G cellphone. In "sentinel mode", the robot doubles as a burglar alarm: sensors detect when something moves in …

News

Technology

How do we preserve scientific data for the future?

News

Earth

Mine waste could fuel its own clean-up

News

Life

Bloody rituals revealed by X-ray machine

News

Life

Do our brains work like Google?

News

Technology

Prodding cells can reveal risky cancers

News

Technology

Silenced genes can no longer stay hidden

News

Technology

Computers spot drug's deadly side effects

News

Life

Finches with faulty 'talk gene' fluff their songs

News

Earth

Did 'slushball' Earth help trigger the explosion of life?

News

Life

Antidepressant pill mimics effects of exercise

News

Life

Male antelopes play hard to get

News

Earth

Stormy weather ahead for US

News

Life

Picture-sorting dogs show human-like thought

News

Life

Spear victim reveals Australia's brutal past

News

Life

Earliest galaxies had building blocks of life

News

Earth

Divorce is costing the Earth

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Earth

Did a comet kick-start Earth's plate tectonics?

News

Life

Dolphins wave weed to attract a mate

News

Life

Chimps outperform students in a memory game

News

Life

Why books don't reveal the secrets of success

News

Earth

Ecotourism benefits nature and reduces poverty

News

Life

Doctors failing to report incompetent colleagues

News

Space

China gets its own moon conspiracy

News

Earth

Toxic dumping law gets legal challenge

News

Earth

Big business smells the cash in carbon cuts

News

Earth

Tritium hazard rating 'should be doubled'

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Was life forged in a quantum crucible?

News

Health

Milder Ebola strain complicates vaccine search

News

Opinion

Comment: Donated eggs don't come cheap

Life

Comment: Donated eggs don't come cheap

NOVEMBER was an astonishing month for embryonic stem cell research. First, Shoukhrat Mitalipov at the Oregon National Primate Research Center reported producing cloned embryonic stem cells from a rhesus macaque monkey – the first from an adult primate. The decade-long dream of using cloned human stem cells to cure intractable diseases seemed on the verge …

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: The peppered moth – the best of science

Opinion

Physics

Commentary: It pays to push boundaries

Opinion

Commentary: No, science does not 'rest on faith'

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: A place in the Sun

Opinion

Life

Interview: Pakistan's voice of reason

Opinion

Features

Solar power: The future's bright

Solar power: The future's bright

IN theory, solving the world's energy problems should be pretty straightforward. Locate a piece of sun-drenched land about half the size of Texas, find a way to capture just 20 per cent of the solar energy that falls there and bingo – problem solved. You have enough power to replace the world's entire energy needs …

Features

Life

Reclaiming the peppered moth for science

Features

Earth

Mass extinctions: The Armageddon factor

Features

Life

Diary of a human 'lab rat'

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.

Review: Shopping Our Way to Safety by Andrew Szasz

THERE'S a glaring incongruity in the public discussion of global warming. Here is perhaps the largest problem imaginable, the direct result of how people around the world have gone about producing and using energy for years. It is the epitome of a collective problem, and can be curtailed only if nations collectively agree to impose …

Books & Arts

Review: The Void by Frank Close

Books & Arts

Humans

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain by Oliver Sacks

Books & Arts

Review: Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres by Catherine Brady

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

Feedback

Climate sceptics vindicated...not HOLD the front page! Climate change is bunk! Hold it again! It isn't! In this hyperconnected age a story can come and go before the ink has been smeared on the dead tree, let alone dried. On 8 November many who would deny that human activity has anything to do with global …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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