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1 March 2008

Issue 2645

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Nanotech: The shape of things to come

Technology

Nanotech: The shape of things to come

Features
How the immune system fine-tunes the brain

Health

How the immune system fine-tunes the brain

Features
Evolution: What missing link?

Life

Evolution: What missing link?

Features
Turning CO<SUB>2</SUB> back into hydrocarbons

Earth

Turning CO2 back into hydrocarbons

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

Four-state material allows 'spintronic' computing

SUPERFAST computers could be on the way now that we have the ideal "multiferroic" material to build them with. "Spintronic" computers calculate using four logical states and so should be far faster than today's binary computers, which use two. Multiferroics can create these states because they produce both electric and magnetic fields, and each can …

News

Life

'Millionaire' tests help kids learn

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Souped-up battery prepares to slay the gas guzzlers

News

Technology

Audio cellphone 'display' lets you tap and talk

News

Technology

'Gambling DNA' helps fight online fraud

News

Technology

Cops can read the watermark in your hair

News

Earth

Krill flourishing in the Antarctic abyss

News

Earth

Greasy hair makes for clean air

News

Health

Simple blood test could predict your mood

News

Space

Chance of Earth surviving Sun's death ruled out

News

Life

Infertile sperm die to protect their brothers

News

Space

X marks the spot in dark matter web

News

Life

Spiders play dead to get laid

News

Earth

Lost logs are a barrier to turtle breeding

News

Life

Brain scans may explain teenage tantrums

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Quiet period could hint of impending earthquake

News

Health

Pancreas fix reverses type 1 diabetes

News

Space

Is cosmic string the radio burst culprit?

News

Earth

No time to lose in cutting CO2 emissions

News

Earth

Guilty countries pledge to go carbon neutral

News

Health

No compensation for faulty medical devices

News

Earth

Fatal fungus threatens America's bats

News

Health

Prozac only effective for the severely depressed

News

Earth

Dusty Wild West blamed on early settlers

News

Space

Is it time to form space police?

News

60 Seconds

News

US elections: Who is the greenest of them all?

News

Life

Iraq's legacy of looted treasures is revealed

News

Opinion

Comment: No place for target practice

Space

Comment: No place for target practice

ON THE evening of 20 February, many parts of the world were treated to a spectacular lunar eclipse. That same day, off the coast of Hawaii, an even rarer spectacle could be witnessed in the late afternoon skies: the intentional destruction of a satellite. Some cheered the event. The obliteration of a dangerous "runaway" satellite …

Opinion

Perspectives: Can apes save Hillary Clinton?

Opinion

Physics

Commentary: What future astronomers won't see

Opinion

Interview: The physicist who stood up to the pope

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: It's the climate, stupid

Opinion

Features

Nanotech: The shape of things to come

Technology

Nanotech: The shape of things to come

IN THE late 1980s, the book Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler caused quite a stir. It described a coming revolution in nanotechnology – the design of machines and structures on the scale of billionths of a metre. Drexler predicted that within a few decades we would have swarms of molecular devices that could build …

Features

Health

How the immune system fine-tunes the brain

Features

Life

Evolution: What missing link?

Features

Earth

Turning CO2 back into hydrocarbons

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: Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

SOMETIMES Einstein isn't enough. Michio Kaku was 8 years old when Einstein died in 1955, and he remembers hearing adults talk in hushed tones about the physicist's life, his death and his "impossible dream" of unifying the laws of physics. Kaku was to make it his life's goal to carry on the cause. But another …

Books & Arts

Review: The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, selected by Richard Dawkins

Books & Arts

Review: Big Bone Lick by Stanley Hedeen

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The ultimate Vegas show THE US government's nuclear test site in the Nevada desert is just 100 kilometres from downtown Las Vegas. There have been over 900 nuclear explosions there since it opened for business in 1951. Although the more recent "shots", as the explosions were called, were underground, in the 1950s gamblers would party …

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