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9 August 2008

Issue 2668

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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.

163 ways to lose your job

Features
Cracking the hardest mystery of the Rubik's cube

Physics

Cracking the hardest mystery of the Rubik's cube

Features
When a little poison is good for you

Health

When a little poison is good for you

Features
Is 'miracle' Alzheimer's cure too good to be true?

Health

Is 'miracle' Alzheimer's cure too good to be true?

Features
Why complex systems do better without us

Life

Why complex systems do better without us

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

Sticker reveals soldiers' bomb blast exposure

A colour-changing crystal device worn on a soldier's uniform could reveal the intensity of bomb blasts they have been exposed to, helping doctors to treat brain injuries that are too subtle to be detected by brain scans. Soldiers in the Iraq war frequently suffer from blast-related traumatic brain injury following exposure to shock waves emanating …

News

Earth

Electrode lights the way to cheap energy storage

News

Technology

On the web, all traffic shall be equal

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Life

Computers to help spot criminals' bad habits

News

Technology

Artificial retina brings curvature to cameras

News

Technology

Search engines could be lubricated by quantum maths

News

Earth

The world's smallest snake discovered

News

Earth

Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery

News

Life

Drugs could turn couch potatoes into athletes

News

Health

Cannabis compound clue to colon cancer

News

Health

Vitamin C: Cancer patients' friend or foe?

News

'NASA will inspire the world once again'

News

Space

Spooks enlisted in hunt for gravity waves

News

Space

Universe's first stars bulk up in new simulation

News

Life

Some synaesthetes 'hear' moving dots

News

Earth

Did iron cyclones give Earth a wonky core?

News

Life

Rabies tragedy follows loss of India's vultures

News

Life

Parasitic flies force bees into drudgery

News

Life

Early Europeans quickly got a taste for milk

News

Life

Anthrax genes may pinpoint culprit

News

Health

South Africa may axe drug approval body

News

Space

Nocturnal satellite could spot strange solar particles

News

Earth

World's hottest water spews from 'black smokers'

News

Earth

Hawaii's endangered birds starved for cash

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Climate maps offer wildlife hope of sanctuary

News

Space

Falcon failure is another setback for solar sails

News

Life

Scientists bombed for working with flies

News

Earth

Humans cause climate change, US body accepts

News

Earth

China's smogs have surprise climate benefit

News

Earth

Saving species doesn't harm the world's poor

News

Health

US HIV stats called into question

News

Opinion

Comment: China's green journey

Earth

Comment: China's green journey

A FEW weeks ago, China's highest government decision-making body completed its second study session on climate change within a year. This was unprecedented, and symptomatic of the number of urgent environmental issues China is addressing and also of the country's new international role: ministers needed the time to help prepare for the final day of …

Opinion

Editorial: Don't overreact over bioterror research

Opinion

Mind

Editorial: Intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be

Opinion

Commentary: The importance of knowing how

Opinion

Technology

Interview: The father of the internet in Africa

Opinion

Features

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.

163 ways to lose your job

On 20 May 1921, excited crowds milled around Boston's railway station hoping to catch a glimpse of Albert Einstein, who was making his first visit to America's most famously learned city. After an impromptu tour, the physicist was whisked off to breakfast with the city's mayor and the governor of Massachusetts. Afterwards, as the diners …

Features

Physics

Cracking the hardest mystery of the Rubik's cube

Features

Health

When a little poison is good for you

Features

Health

Is 'miracle' Alzheimer's cure too good to be true?

Features

Life

Why complex systems do better without us

Features

Regulars

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Tilting earth cover up WORRIED by hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes? Wondering what to blame? Would you believe that these have all been linked to the Earth's axis shifting by 26 degrees in two stages, one in late 2004 and one in early 2005? How is it, you may well ask, that you didn't notice? It's …

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