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2 August 2008

Issue 2667

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Past masters of coastal geology

Earth

Past masters of coastal geology

Features
A vaccine for modern living

Health

A vaccine for modern living

Features
Is climate change causing an upsurge in US tornadoes?

Earth

Is climate change causing an upsurge in US tornadoes?

Features
Are 'disposable' reactors a safe energy solution?

Earth

Are 'disposable' reactors a safe energy solution?

Features
How the humble potato could feed the world

Earth

How the humble potato could feed the world

Features

Table of contents

News

Wi-Fi networks suffer 'autoimmune' attacks

Technology

Wi-Fi networks suffer 'autoimmune' attacks

JUST as the body's immune system sometimes mistakenly attacks its own cells, so the security software intended to protect network users can be fooled into attacking them. This could make attacks by hackers even harder to detect and prevent. Security software typically prevents unauthorised access by encrypting most of the data transmitted across a network, …

News

Technology

Digital camera chip turned into lens-free microscope

News

Health

Dementia vastly underestimated in low-income countries

News

Health

Schizophrenia genes found at last

News

Life

Why a mule is not a dumb-ass

News

Earth

Supermountains gave us the air we breathe

News

Space

Mangled stars could reveal ejected black holes

News

Life

Folklore gets it wrong on love matches

News

Earth

Software predicts where El Niño will strike next

News

Technology

Software strips patients' names, keeps the gory details

News

Technology

Airline cockpit blackouts are not being tackled

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Creating a computer game is child's play

News

Life

Bumblebees help close in on serial killers

News

Health

Wheelchairs may impair spinal-cord recovery

News

Life

Tree shrews could drink humans under the table

News

Life

Your neighbourhood could be making you fat

News

'I bought a brand-new Cadillac'

News

Space

Was ancient Greek 'computer' an astronomical tool?

News

Life

How snakes got their fangs

News

Life

Gene variant more prevalent in transsexuals

News

Space

Antimatter and matter don't always go bang

News

Space

Is our universe fine-tuned for life?

News

Life

Technical hurdles may rule out Olympic gene cheats

News

Life

Getting inside the minds of athletes who cheat

News

Earth

Arctic ice continues to thin

News

Health

Back to basics for failed HIV vaccine

News

Health

New cash to tackle smoking in developing world

News

Space

Nations sign landmark lunar exploration agreement

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

A third of China's carbon footprint blamed on exports

News

Earth

Hidden populations give lynx a fighting chance

News

Health

Ethical storm brews over embryonic stem cell lines

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: Why God and science don't mix

THE investor and philanthropist John Templeton sadly died last month . He leaves behind a substantial financial legacy, including a famous investment house, and a foundation with assets of more than $2 billion. I never met him, but we corresponded once, after I wrote an article in 1996 suggesting that the recent glut of university …

Opinion

Comment: Anthropologists should stay off the front line

Opinion

Editorial: Where do nutrititional supplements fit in sport?

Opinion

Space

Interview: The cosmic explorer

Opinion

Features

Past masters of coastal geology

Earth

Past masters of coastal geology

...... "On entering this tremendous chasm an immense cliff overhangs the traveller and strikes the mind with considerable terror. Even in a light gale the sound of the wind is awful; each winter the appearance of the place alters as stones are continuously falling in immense fragments." When English artist Charles Tomkins described Blackgang chine …

Features

Health

A vaccine for modern living

Features

Earth

Is climate change causing an upsurge in US tornadoes?

Features

Earth

Are 'disposable' reactors a safe energy solution?

Features

Earth

How the humble potato could feed the world

Features

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Review: <i>Txtng: The Gr8 Db8</i> by David Crystal

Review: Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal

WITH its astounding rise in popularity since 2001, text messaging has been widely deplored as the ruin of teens, language and perhaps civilisation itself. Yet the reality is far less dire. There's no evidence that texting damages writing skills; on the contrary, academic studies – as well as creative phenomena such as text poetry – …

Books & Arts

Review: Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A Muller

Books & Arts

Review: Surrealism, Art and Modern Science by Gavin Parkinson

Books & Arts

Life

Review: The Score by Faye Flam

Books & Arts

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Tacky tachyons A BUTCHER's shop may be the last place where you would expect to come across nutty physics theories. Nevertheless, it was at his local butcher's in East Sussex, south-east England, that Jeremy Drew and his son picked up a postcard flyer headed "Tachyon energy". Yes, folks. Tachyons are back, together with their usual …

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