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20 September 2008

Issue 2674

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Editor's picks

Who really discovered the ozone hole?

Earth

Who really discovered the ozone hole?

Features
Do fly-by anomalies reveal new physics at work?

Space

Do fly-by anomalies reveal new physics at work?

Features
Mean machines go green

Earth

Mean machines go green

Features
Do supercharged brains give rise to autism?

Health

Do supercharged brains give rise to autism?

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

Gizmo

Apple wants to control what shoes you wear. In a deal with Nike, the computer company came up with a wireless sensor that slots into Nike+ running shoes and sends the time, speed and distance of your run to a receiver attached to an iPod Nano. To stop people attaching the sensor to any other …

News

Life

Software spots the spin in political speeches

News

Technology

Graphical search engine will cheer sports fans

News

Technology

Online gamers are fit – physically if not mentally

News

Space

Gas stations in space need protective sunblock

News

Technology

Water, water everywhere, and now it's safe to drink

News

Technology

Robot assistant gives surgeons a cutting look

News

Earth

Climate change gave dinosaurs a lucky break

News

Life

Deaf people feel the correct pronunciation

News

'Some pharma companies are dramatically overcharging Americans'

News

Life

In pain? Take one masterpiece, three times a day

News

Life

Ancient genetic imprint unites the tribes of India

News

Earth

Clearer skies have brought more rain

News

Space

Dark matter may string together starry necklace

News

Life

How genes might pick our mates for us

News

Life

Rats can sniff out the new cat on the block

News

Technology

Condition critical: The medical crisis facing America

News

Life

Plants' alarm clock genes found

News

Earth

Insight: What's driving the Arctic sea ice decline?

News

Space

Planet's strange orbit points to planetary billiards

News

Health

Plastic linked to heart disease and diabetes

News

Health

Watch out for the other bird flu

News

Technology

'LHC day' was highest profile physics event in history

News

Earth

Galveston's 1900 legacy saved it from Ike

News

Earth

Turbulent weather ahead for southern US

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Should we legalise hunting of endangered species?

News

Earth

UK escapes bluetongue epidemic... for now

News

Creationism overshadows science festival

News

Life

Female circumcision common in Egypt despite ban

News

Earth

North American fish swimming towards extinction

News

Opinion

Could non-lethal weapons increase conflict?

Technology

Could non-lethal weapons increase conflict?

THE world has embarked on a new arms race – and rather than nuclear warheads, the currency this time is arms that don't kill. Governments, armies and police forces hope that "non-lethal" weapons will not only offer more effective methods of crowd control, but help draw a line under the bloody conflicts of the 20th …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: A helping hand for clean technologies

Opinion

Editorial: Hunger and conservation don't mix

Opinion

Commentary: Misuse of science is a threat to civil liberties

Opinion

Life

Interview: The alien hunter

Opinion

Features

Who really discovered the ozone hole?

Earth

Who really discovered the ozone hole?

Joe Farman Joe Farman had only ever published a handful of research papers. He was one of the foot soldiers of science, running instruments monitoring the atmosphere above the UK's Halley Bay research base in Antarctica. But one of his rare excursions into print is among the most famous by an environmental researcher. In October …

Features

Space

Do fly-by anomalies reveal new physics at work?

Features

Earth

Mean machines go green

Features

Health

Do supercharged brains give rise to autism?

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.

Fuelling a chemical revolution

WHEN Andy Pag's old red Peugeot is running low on fuel, he ignores the filling stations and stops at the next restaurant instead. Filling up on discarded chip fat, vegetable oil and whatever else he can scrounge from chefs along the way, Pag, an engineer-turned-journalist, hopes to inspire other people to try alternative fuels for …

Careers

Life

Review: Superdove: How the pigeons took Manhattan... and the world by Courtney Humphries

Books & Arts

Review: Born Digital by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

Books & Arts

Review: Between Earth and Sky by Nalini Nadkarni

Books & Arts

Review: The Lightness of Being by Frank Wilczek

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

Cure for everything FEEDBACK is indebted to denizens of the Urban75.com bulletin board for alerting us to a website that must surely be of benefit to all humanity. Go to Oilpulling.com and you will find it promises a method by which "migraine headaches, bronchitis, diseased teeth, arterio thrombosis, chronic blood disorders such as leukemia, arthritis …

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Letters

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