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16 February 2008

Issue 2643

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Uncovering the evolution of the bacterial flagellum

Life

Uncovering the evolution of the bacterial flagellum

Features
Can science save a masterpiece?

Technology

Can science save a masterpiece?

Features
Could preon stars reveal a hidden reality?

Space

Could preon stars reveal a hidden reality?

Features
Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind

Life

Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind

Features

Table of contents

News

The power walk that charges your phone

Technology

The power walk that charges your phone

IT GIVES a whole new meaning to "power walking". Strap on a pair of leg braces and with a little extra effort you can generate enough electricity while you walk or run to charge up your cellphone or laptop, or perhaps even a prosthetic arm. The brace, built by Max Donelan and colleagues at Simon …

News

Earth

Clearing land for biofuel crops just makes things worse

News

Health

Sweetener may be worse for dieters than sugar

News

Life

Monkey brain scans reveal 'voice region'

News

Technology

Picky phages put to work in bacteria sensor

News

Technology

Robotic fish to spy beneath the waves

News

Technology

Delivering drugs at the flick of a switch

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Games consoles reveal the supercomputer within

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Big brains payrolled by Big Tobacco

News

Health

Pollen clues expose fake malaria drug scam

News

Space

Superfluids could create a 'universe in a bucket'

News

Black hole event horizon created in the lab

News

Physics

Why sandcastles are so easy to build

News

Life

Earliest bats did not 'see' with sound

News

Tweaking taps for a constantly warm shower

News

Earth

Global warming may not have caused sluggish Atlantic

News

Life

Hard graft, not genes, creates musical genius

News

Life

Racial stereotyping persists in 'non-racists'

News

Earth

Natural rifts may have weakened Antarctic ice shelf

News

Life

Creationism encroaches on Darwin's bicentennial

News

Earth

US agency under fire over mercury trading

News

Health

Gender-bender chemical probe targets PR firm

News

Earth

Sumatran tigers 'being sold into extinction'

News

Earth

Map reveals natural disaster hotspots

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

On the origins of human spite

News

Technology

Aircraft noise poses a health risk for sleepers

News

Opinion

Commentary: Ideas that will govern America

Commentary: Ideas that will govern America

WHEN I wrote in a previous "World lines" commentary (15 December 2007, p 52) that I was joining a group of individuals to call for a presidential debate on US science and technology policy, I didn't have much hope that such an event might actually take place. Yet in the few weeks since, we have …

Opinion

Comment: Truth is the best defence

Opinion

Editorial: Racism still runs deep

Opinion

Life

Perspectives: My colleagues and other animals

Opinion

Interview: The man who would prove all studies wrong

Opinion

Features

Uncovering the evolution of the bacterial flagellum

Life

Uncovering the evolution of the bacterial flagellum

THREE years before his death in 1805, English philosopher William Paley proposed a now-famous thought experiment. Imagine discovering a watch on the heath: how would you explain its intricate arrangement of parts, its clear design for a purpose? Naturally, you'd conclude that it was built by a watchmaker, not blown together by chance. By analogy, …

Features

Technology

Can science save a masterpiece?

Features

Space

Could preon stars reveal a hidden reality?

Features

Life

Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind

Features

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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.

Technology

Review: The Telephone Gambit by Seth Shulman

ANY reader of detective stories knows to watch for subtle anomalies. A dozen years ago I spotted one while investigating the history of fibre optics. In an interview in 1921, less than a year before his death, Alexander Graham Bell had said that he considered his greatest invention to be the photophone , an obscure …

Books & Arts

Life

Review: Life as It Is by William Loomis

Books & Arts

Health

Review: The Blue Death by Robert D Morris

Books & Arts

Physics

Review: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion edited by Stephen Hawking

Books & Arts

Space

Review: The Wraparound Universe by Jean-Pierre Luminet

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

Reinventing maths HOLD the front page! Richard Taylor alerts us to a blog post by an American physics student in England last year at http://fliptomato.wordpress.com about a 1994 paper by M. M. Tai entitled: "A mathematical model for the determination of total area under glucose tolerance and other metabolic curves" ( Diabetes Care, vol 17, …

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