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19 July 2008

Issue 2665

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Editor's picks

Circumcision: To cut or not to cut?

Life

Circumcision: To cut or not to cut?

Features
Awaiting a messenger from the multiverse

Space

Awaiting a messenger from the multiverse

Features
Brains apart: The real difference between the sexes

Life

Brains apart: The real difference between the sexes

Features
Why economic theory is out of whack

Physics

Why economic theory is out of whack

Features

Table of contents

News

Gizmo

Technology

Gizmo

Disappearing labels could soon tell you when food in your fridge is out of date. The National Taiwan University in Taipei has developed an ink based on anthraquinone β-sulfonate, which fades from red to beige in the presence of oxygen. Varying the thickness of a gas-permeable polyacrylate film on top of a food label allows …

News

Earth

Who needs coal when you can mine Earth's deep heat?

News

Technology

Printable ads boost ignored web campaigns

News

Technology

CD alloy boosts flash card memory

News

Earth

Submarine eruption bled Earth's oceans of oxygen

News

Health

Boozing mice get the blues when they dry out

News

Earth

US spring melt to shift by months

News

Technology

Invisible nanotube cable could support a human

News

Life

Laser illuminates fragile dinosaur footprints

News

Life

Google Earth reveals Afghanistan's hidden treasures

News

Earth

Dying Tasmanian devils turn to teen pregnancies

News

Life

Babies use grown-up memory tricks

News

Earth

Climate change may increase kidney stones

News

Space

Asteroid switched Mars's magnetic field on and off

News

Space

Is the largest asteroid Pluto's wayward cousin?

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Nothing fishy about old people after all

News

Health

'Universal' allergy therapy a step closer

News

Space

Early galaxies had magnetic fields as strong as today's

News

Earth

Grazing sea urchins create reef cacophony

News

Life

Brain's response to being spurned is affected by race

News

Health

Killing mosquitoes increases dengue fever deaths

News

Earth

A taste for the rare may drive sturgeon to extinction

News

Life

How best to protect the treasures of the deep?

News

Space

Mars sample mission carries $8 billion price tag

News

Life

Serious assaults up 30% in the UK

News

Life

Desperate parents sold implausible stem-cell 'cures'

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Satellite cutbacks could leave us blind at the poles

News

Health

HIV gene is a mixed blessing for carriers

News

Earth

Mystery ailment hits South African crocs

News

Earth

Seaweed sucker vacuums up invasive reef algae

News

Opinion

Comment: Can fiction make a difference?

Comment: Can fiction make a difference?

THE sea is rising, driven by melting ice and the expansion of warmer water – a consequence of climate change. Already on islands like Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean, the trees are poisoned by salt, and children's football games have to be abandoned as high tide approaches and the water bubbles out of the ground. …

Opinion

Editorial: Economic theory just isn't up to scratch

Opinion

Earth

Commentary: Cash prizes won't solve our energy problems

Opinion

Life

Interview: It's a dog's life...again

Opinion

Features

Circumcision: To cut or not to cut?

Life

Circumcision: To cut or not to cut?

...... IMAGINE a quick and simple surgical procedure that trials have shown could give your newborn child lifelong protection against HIV and may ward off sexually transmitted diseases and cancer too. It involves a little pain and bleeding, and occasionally goes wrong, but the risk of serious adverse effects is tiny. Would you have it …

Features

Space

Awaiting a messenger from the multiverse

Features

Life

Brains apart: The real difference between the sexes

Features

Physics

Why economic theory is out of whack

Features

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Books to travel with: Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn

MARIE WINN won her nature-writing spurs with Red-Tails in Love , about two hawks that built a nest on 5th Avenue. Now she braves America's most famous park at night, in this enjoyable celebration of the wildlife that makes its home in New York's Central Park. It may be a human creation, but real wildness …

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: Riffing on Strings edited by Sean Miller and Shveta Verma

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: Guesstimation by Lawrence Weinstein and John A Adam

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: What the Nose Knows: The science of scent in everyday life by Avery Gilbert

Books & Arts

Books to travel with: Final Theory by Mark Alpert

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

US holds fossilised UFO REMEMBER when the joke was that on the internet, no one knows you're a dog? Perhaps that should now be changed to: no one knows for sure if you're a raving loon. We keep stumbling upon and puzzling over web pages like www.americanchronicle.com/articles/66764 – which reports that the US government secretly …

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Letters

Regulars

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