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12 July 2008

Issue 2664

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The monk who went to hell in a basket

Earth

The monk who went to hell in a basket

Features
Making formula milk more like mum's

Health

Making formula milk more like mum's

Features
The moonbots have landed

Space

The moonbots have landed

Features
Rewriting Darwin: The new non-genetic inheritance

Life

Rewriting Darwin: The new non-genetic inheritance

Features

Table of contents

News

To put up an oil rig, follow that clam

Life

To put up an oil rig, follow that clam

Video: To put up an oil rig, follow that clam... AMOS WINTER, a graduate student at the Massuchusetts Institute of Technology, has a new skill to add to his resumé. "Amos is now a licensed clam digger in the state of Massachusetts," his supervisor, Anette Hosoi, says proudly. Razor clams retreat rapidly into the sand …

News

Technology

Spinal implant grows with the patient

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

Giant rubber snake may be the future of wave power

News

Earth

Earth's hum predicts quake danger spots

News

Technology

Brain implant lets paralysed man talk again

News

Life

Drivers are safer with a passenger at their side

News

Earth

Volcano spews lethal acid brew

News

Life

How bats made the leap from gliding to flying

News

Space

Stellar theft sends guilty star into a spin

News

Health

Chelation trial for heart disease under fire

News

Space

Now the Moon reveals its water

News

Life

Four artificial new letters for the DNA alphabet

News

Health

Brain's mood regulator implicated in cot death

News

Health

Ten people die from new CJD-like disease

News

Life

Love makes you blind to sexy strangers

News

Health

Frozen embryos give bouncier babies

News

Life

Cleaner fish stations are a reef safe haven

News

Earth

The supercontinent that ate itself

News

Life

Flatfish caught evolving, thanks to its roving eye

News

Space

Killer asteroid predictions 'off by millions of miles'

News

Soundbites

News

Life

New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US

News

Earth

Hormone-loaded spearguns make captive tuna spawn

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Contaminated US site faces 'catastrophic' nuclear leak

News

Earth

Grasslands may be resistant to climate-led invasions

News

Earth

Melting ice sheets will send slow wave around globe

News

Life

Can you turn teeth into sperm?

News

Life

Archaeologists to refuse help over possible Iran strike

News

Life

Governments urged to crack down on 'transplant tourism'

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.

Commentary: Don't accept this tainted money

THERE ought to be a debate about whether this or any other science magazine should accept advertisements from the Templeton Foundation . “It is not in science's interests to run ads from the Templeton Foundation” This institution, which aims to promote a connection between religion and science, spends large sums of money supporting research in …

Opinion

Life

How we can learn from children with half a brain

Opinion

Comment: The developing world needs its own science journals

Opinion

Life

Creationists launch cynical attack on school science

Opinion

Earth

Interview: From rock'n'roll to the sounds of nature

Opinion

Features

The monk who went to hell in a basket

Earth

The monk who went to hell in a basket

After months of preparation, Friar Blas del Castillo could put it off no longer. On 13 April 1538, he tied his habit tightly round himself, crossed his stole over his chest and jammed a metal helmet on his head. Equipped with only a hammer, a flask of wine and a wooden cross, he climbed into …

Features

Health

Making formula milk more like mum's

Features

Space

The moonbots have landed

Features

Life

Rewriting Darwin: The new non-genetic inheritance

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.

Review: Darwin's Garden by Michael Boulter

IN DARWIN'S day, the garden at Down House – his home from 1842 until his death in 1882 – was a hub of scientific activity. With experiments on pollination, hybridisation and dispersal of plants, and findings that paved the way for modern genetics and studies of food chains and biodiversity, it's not surprising to find …

Books & Arts

Review: Nature's Clocks by Doug Macdougall

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Sorry, Mr bin Laden, sir... AFTER the 9/11 attacks in 2001, federal authorities in the US began compiling a list of people deemed a threat to airline security and therefore not to be allowed on board commercial flights. The no-fly list quickly grew beyond the likes of Osama bin Laden to include many other names …

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