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24 May 2008

Issue 2657

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Editor's picks

Science rules OK: Running societies the rational way

Life

Science rules OK: Running societies the rational way

Features
Fire & ice: What really happened to water on Mars

Space

Fire & ice: What really happened to water on Mars

Features
So you think humans are unique?

Life

So you think humans are unique?

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

New mesh gives net gains against mosquitoes

GET a good night's sleep: bed nets designed to stop mosquitoes in their tracks are undergoing large-scale trials in India and Tanzania. Ordinary nets keep mosquitoes at bay, but the malaria-transmitting insects can still bite skin lying against the mesh. Coating nets with insecticide prevents this, but the chemicals tend to wash out of conventional …

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

How to protect your good name against cyberspite

News

Earth

Quirk of sea air provides video link to protected reef

News

Life

Treating animals like molecules aids census

News

Earth

Cheap carbon trap cleans up power station emissions

News

Earth

Low snowfall puts Alpine tourism on a downhill slide

News

Technology

Internet to run out of addresses 'within 3 years'

News

Life

False teeth sensors reveal the secrets of speech

News

Health

Genes not pigmentation reveal skin cancer risk

News

Life

Lab rats turn cannibal in cleaner cages

News

Life

Rehab and pain strengthen 'Kill-MD' urge

News

Health

Eating less beats exercise for a long life

News

Space

Early images reveal frosts on Pluto

News

Life

Ivy uses nanoparticles to cling to walls

News

Life

Shorebirds defy gravity to get a drop to eat

News

Earth

Earth may hide a lethal carbon cache

News

Life

Transgenic monkeys to aid Huntington's research

News

Space

Star self-destructs before astronomers' eyes

News

Health

Body's own drug damps down fear

News

Earth

Insight: Can we trust Atlantic hurricane prediction?

News

Soundbites

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Earlier the better for autism therapy?

News

Life

Ban on first-cousin marriages 'not necessary'

News

Earth

'Self-digesting' biofuel plants could ease food crisis

News

Space

Space station 'lifeboat' gets the all-clear

News

Health

Indonesia holding out for bird flu vaccine deal

News

Technology

'Cheetah' legs don't give unfair boost

News

Technology

Nanotubes could cause lung disease like asbestos

News

Teachers still preaching creationism in US classrooms

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: No way up for women physicists

OVER the past few decades, while all fields of science have increased the proportion of women at faculty level, physics has remained the most unequal, with women accounting for only around 10 per cent of faculty members. Is this because women are innately incapable of succeeding in the field (and/or innately prefer other careers), or …

Opinion

Editorial: Scientific testing can prevent policy disasters

Opinion

Editorial: Not unique but special

Opinion

Commentary: Science is losing out to the allure of Wall Street

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Bring on the solar revolution

Opinion

Features

Science rules OK: Running societies the rational way

Life

Science rules OK: Running societies the rational way

SOME measures are just plain common sense. If drug use is rife in prisons, deter offenders with random drug tests. If teenagers are straying into delinquency, give them a taste of what prison life is like to shock them into cleaning up their acts. And since newly qualified drivers cause many deaths and injuries, all …

Features

Space

Fire & ice: What really happened to water on Mars

Features

Life

So you think humans are unique?

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.

Graduate Special: Make some money

MONEY. They say it can't buy you happiness, and the Beatles didn't care much for it because apparently it can't buy you love either. But with the burden of student loans and the promise that more education leads to a fatter pay packet (see "Higher earnings") , potential income is at the forefront of every …

Careers

Graduate Special: Making a difference

Careers

Graduate Special: Make a discovery

Careers

Graduate Special: Finding Happiness

Careers

Graduate Special: Go to the extreme

Careers

Graduate Special: Become Famous

Careers

Graduate Special: Become an expert

Careers

Graduate Special: Become an inventor

Careers

Graduate Special: Start a business

Careers

Thousand Mile Song by David Rothenberg

Books & Arts

Fortune and Glory by Douglas Palmer, Nicholas James and Giles Sparrow

Books & Arts

Jane's Space Recognition Guide by Peter Bond

Books & Arts

Life

Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly

Books & Arts

Graduate Special: Success

Careers

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

Put bread on your head IN RECENT months we have often reported on so-called "Nigerian" scams (3 May) , also known as "419" scams because they are illegal under Section 419 of the Nigerian penal code. The origin of these endeavours goes back a lot further than you might think. Conned , a history of …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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