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8 November 2008

Issue 2681

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In search of the missing Stone Age tribes

Earth

In search of the missing Stone Age tribes

Features
How online games are solving uncomputable problems

Technology

How online games are solving uncomputable problems

Features
The secret life of the brain

Life

The secret life of the brain

Features
Where do science supermachines go when they die?

Technology

Where do science supermachines go when they die?

Features

Table of contents

News

Cellphone app will get air guitarists wailing

Technology

Cellphone app will get air guitarists wailing

ZoozBeats turns your cellphone into a playable guitar, drum kit, and more THE satisfying thud of a bass drum sounds every time Gil Weinberg strikes thin air with his iPhone. A pal nearby swings his Nokia smartphone back and forth, adding a rippling bass line. A third phone-wielding friend sprinkles piano and guitar phrases on …

News

Technology

'Concertina' scaffold could help mend broken hearts

News

Life

Women's hands boast more bugs

News

Life

Brain sees fine line between speech and song

News

Health

Gene hunt finds cancer culprits

News

Life

Ants have a simple solution to traffic congestion

News

Technology

The online doctor will see you now

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Space

Space tourists to get limited protection

News

Technology

Amoeba inspires simple memory circuit

News

Technology

X-rays unmask deadly replica guns

News

Technology

Why hair bleach is a murderer's best friend

News

Physics

Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?

News

Earth

Rare species could be frozen for future cloning

News

'I'm not terribly fast at my times tables'

News

Earth

GM cotton in the clear over farmer suicides

News

Earth

Climate change sends lemming numbers plunging

News

Space

Dark matter may be shining a light

News

Life

Earliest known shaman reveals tool of the trade

News

Earth

Japanese quake made the earth bounce

News

Earth

Does rainfall vary with sunspot activity?

News

Health

The odd drink in pregnancy won't harm baby

News

Life

Chinese and Nigerian men join elite genome club

News

Space

Hubble is living on borrowed time

News

Earth

Conservationists may be overestimating wildlife habitat

News

Earth

Can legislation stop the wells running dry?

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Primate welfare law could rule out some research

News

Life

Chicken genome plucked bare by inbreeding

News

Earth

Debate over Indonesian mud volcano gets messy

News

Opinion

How to launch a mission to the Moon

How to launch a mission to the Moon

As New Scientist went to press, India's first moon mission was approaching lunar orbit. For Madhavan Nair , the mission head, it is the culmination of nearly 40 years' work. But why are space missions a priority for India? Anil Ananthaswamy found out TWO weeks ago, India's first moon mission blasted off from the Satish …

Opinion

Health

Flu shots save fewer lives than thought

Opinion

Earth

Finding the facts about genetic modification

Opinion

How curing boredom can boost research

Opinion

Space

Rock'n'roll cellphones – social glue or plain annoying?

Opinion

Beware the destructive nature of greed

Opinion

Features

In search of the missing Stone Age tribes

Earth

In search of the missing Stone Age tribes

HUMAN adaptability was really put to the test during the last major episode of global warming. It was the Mesolithic era, or Middle Stone Age, and Europe was inhabited throughout, yet evidence of the people who lived there is thin on the ground, and nowhere more so than in what is now Britain. Just a …

Features

Technology

How online games are solving uncomputable problems

Features

Life

The secret life of the brain

Features

Technology

Where do science supermachines go when they die?

Features

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Living with Enza by Mark Honigsbaum

"I HAD a little bird, its name was Enza," went the schoolyard song in 1918. "I opened the window and in-flu-enza." The 1918 flu pandemic has been the subject of several books, but this is the first I know of from a UK perspective. The science isn't always current or correct to the last detail, …

Books & Arts

A fresh start in the Alps

Careers

In Search of Time by Dan Falk

Books & Arts

Review: Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg

Books & Arts

Gallery: Painting the life within

Books & Arts

Enigma No. 1519

Regulars

Regulars

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Error in error message, part 97

Free the polar bear from rules and laws! MANY of us idealise grassroots politics, in which ordinary citizens join together to take action on some issue of concern. So in this age of spin, it's only natural that commercial interests are creating groups that purport to be the genuine "grassroots" but are in fact anything …

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