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28 February 2009

Issue 2697

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How to survive the coming century

Earth

How to survive the coming century

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Rise of the robogeeks

Technology

Rise of the robogeeks

Features
Why do some people kill themselves?

Health

Why do some people kill themselves?

Features
Salt solution: Cheap power from the river's mouth

Earth

Salt solution: Cheap power from the river's mouth

Features

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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.

Forensic evidence goes on trial

LAST month, Steven Barnes was exonerated of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old New York schoolgirl in 1985. Barnes had been convicted of these crimes on the basis of forensic evidence, including testimony that soil on his truck tyres matched that at the crime scene. An imprint on the outside of his truck also …

News

Earth

Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left?

News

Health

Youthful infertility balanced by late-blooming ovaries

News

Life

Fossilised fish are proof of ancient sex

News

Physics

How camels could explain quantum uncertainty

News

'It was kind of like a religious conversion'

News

Health

Revealed: Scientific evidence for the 2001 anthrax attacks

News

Supercell signal could spark tornado warnings

News

How giant pterosaurs ruled the air

News

Fast food joints raise stroke risk

News

Born to look on the bright side

News

A landscape's beauty is in the brain of the beholder

News

Health

Child abuse may leave 'suicide marks' on genes

News

Found: Pieces of meteorite spotted before impact

News

Earth

Biggest sand dunes set to grow as Earth warms

News

Technology

3D printer brings animated movie stars to life

News

Technology

Website to dish the dirt on foods

News

Technology

Why robots can't be trusted with weapons

News

Technology

Projector phones: Cool app or visual pollution?

News

Space

Mega-laser to probe secrets of exoplanets

News

Technology

Future TV screens seen in coffee stains

News

Technology

Gold delivery could boost molecular medicine

News

Human activity primes Borneo's forests to burn

News

Scientists find chink in flu's armour

News

Life

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea on the rise

News

Space

Twin-tailed comet drops by for a visit

News

Space

Time to tax space litterbugs?

News

Shocking pink tubes help to save albatrosses

News

Mission to hunt missing CO2 goes AWOL itself

News

Shoot for the moon, China blames the west, and more

News

Opinion

The woman in charge of the world's biggest experiment

Technology

The woman in charge of the world's biggest experiment

Fabiola Gianotti is taking over as head of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (Image Michael Struik) Next month Fabiola Gianotti takes over as head of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. The largest experiment of its kind, it could answer some of the mysteries of the universe. She …

Opinion

The time has come to re-engineer the planet

Opinion

Forensic science – guilty as charged

Opinion

Facebook facedown

Opinion

Health

Changes will mean affordable drugs for all

Opinion

How to spot a hidden religious agenda

Opinion

Features

How to survive the coming century

Earth

How to survive the coming century

As deserts encroach on fertile land, as it has near Dunhuang, China, people will be forced to move towards the poles Explore an interactive map of the world warmed by 4 °C ALLIGATORS basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 …

Features

Technology

Rise of the robogeeks

Features

Health

Why do some people kill themselves?

Features

Earth

Salt solution: Cheap power from the river's mouth

Features

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Enigma Number 1534

Head start Harey and Tortus decided to race from Harey's house to school, a distance of a whole number of metres. They each ran at their own steady speed and when Harey reached school, Tortus was over half way there, but still had a two-figure number of metres to go. The next day they repeated …

Regulars

Life

Review: How to Build a Dinosaur by Jack Horner and James Gorman

Books & Arts

Space

Spectacular spectrum reveals Sun's chemistry

Books & Arts

Mind

Review: The End of My Addiction by Olivier Ameisen

Books & Arts

Review: Antimatter by Frank Close

Books & Arts

Review: Decoding the Heavens by Jo Marchant

Books & Arts

Review: The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock

Books & Arts

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Feedback

Bacon gets the bacon READER Laurel Daniel says she knows we have said we don't want any more examples of nominative determinism, but she still thinks we might be interested in the convergence of name and talent demonstrated by Jolee Bacon, the Idaho woman who won first place in the Nez Perce County Fair hog-calling …

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