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26 January 2008

Issue 2640

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Why vaccines are hard to swallow

Health

Why vaccines are hard to swallow

Features
The strange anatomy of the brain

Life

The strange anatomy of the brain

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.

Life

Histories: Mithridates's marvellous medicine

Features
The mysterious workings of the rain cloud

Earth

The mysterious workings of the rain cloud

Features
The hunt for the Un-universe

Space

The hunt for the Un-universe

Features

Table of contents

News

Virtual world could aid diagnosis of schizophrenia

Life

Virtual world could aid diagnosis of schizophrenia

Video: See how the virtual world is used to explore the cognitive problems of people with schizophrenia See how the virtual world is used to explore the cognitive problems of people with schizophrenia Dogs that moo, lawn mowers that sound like fax modems and red fluffy clouds in a clear blue sky are all components …

News

Earth

Hopes build for eco-concrete

News

Earth

Pitter-patter of raindrops could power devices

News

Earth

Surf helps scientists predict volcanic eruptions

News

Life

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus

News

Life

Scientists find fountain of youth – for yeast

News

Life

Planet spotters seek a watery twinkle in the sky

News

Health

1918 flu pandemic had a trial run

News

Life

Family ties defy changing society

News

Life

Ancient bones suggest cavemen wore boots

News

Health

Coffee increases miscarriage risk

News

Technology

Computer develops its own Pac-Man strategies

News

Technology

Sound solution for cooling chips

News

Technology

DNA 'nose' sniffs out explosives

News

Earth

World's poor are up in arms over food prices

News

Life

Inbred humans live to a ripe old age

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Health

Morphine may leave babies sensitive to pain

News

Life

House-hunting bees behave like a brain

News

Space

Supernova 'echoes' are a window to the galaxy's past

News

Life

Has human clone generated stem cells?

News

Earth

Is the Pacific splitting in two?

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Bone marrow could stop organ rejection

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

How traffic pollution damages the heart

News

Life

Italian physicists face backlash over pope protest

News

Technology

Sacking of nuclear official prompts row

News

Earth

Antarctic volcano gives glacier the slip

News

Earth

Bush decision on sonar a blow for whales

News

Life

Labs get licences to create 'cybrid' embryos

News

Earth

Killer starfish destroy 'richest' coral reefs

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.

Comment: More science skills, please

SCIENCE, more than any other area of business, needs people with higher qualifications and skills – a first degree is the virtual minimum for entry-level jobs. Any country's prosperity is dependent on a robust supply of people with science, technology, engineering and maths qualifications. Yet the UK, like the US, is failing dismally to train …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Natural does not mean harmless

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Don't mess with nuclear safety

Opinion

Commentary: Revisiting nature versus nurture

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Keeping an eye on Antarctica

Opinion

Features

Why vaccines are hard to swallow

Health

Why vaccines are hard to swallow

A-YEAR-and-a-half ago, a vaccines expert in the eastern US received a phone call at home. The man on the line did not identify himself; he simply stated the names and ages of the researcher's two children and the schools they attended, then hung up. The threat was shocking, but not a surprise. "I get hate …

Features

Life

The strange anatomy of the brain

Features

Life

Histories: Mithridates's marvellous medicine

Features

Earth

The mysterious workings of the rain cloud

Features

Space

The hunt for the Un-universe

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

Review: Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs by Phillip Manning

Video: Watch a video of the discovery and analysis of the amazing fossil find Watch a video of the discovery and analysis of the amazing fossil find Vertebrate palaeontology is a science built on bones. Well-preserved bones can be richly informative – the massive skull and teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex , for instance, have "deadly" …

Books & Arts

Review: Biobazaar: The open source revolution and biotechnology by Janet Hope

Books & Arts

Review: The Naked Man by Desmond Morris

Books & Arts

Space

Review: The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration by Philip J Stooke

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

Talented gerbils HERE are three interesting-sounding scientific papers. Martin Gardiner was perusing the programme for the Acoustical Society of America conference, due to take place in June, when he came across "A vowel identification procedure for gerbils" by Joan Sinnott and Kelly Mosteller in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (vol 122, p …

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