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28 March 2009

Issue 2701

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Editor's picks

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy

Life

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy

Features
Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity

Earth

Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity

Features
Can fractals make sense of the quantum world?

Space

Can fractals make sense of the quantum world?

Features
Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale

Earth

Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale

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.

'Wasted' wells fail to solve Africa's water problems

THE age-old trek of African women to collect water from distant rivers and dirty ponds is once more a feature of the continent. Millions of women must take the old paths through the bush because an estimated 50,000 recent boreholes, pumps and wells installed with foreign aid are lying derelict for want of basic maintenance. …

News

Gloves come off in race to find the Higgs

News

Life

Texas creation vote hangs in the balance

News

Space

Speculation mounts over North Korean missiles

News

Carbon-sink experiment sunk by hungry crustaceans

News

Bush ban on morning-after pill is reversed

News

Red and processed meat linked to early death

News

Great lakes lessen, and more

News

Life

Special investigation: How my genome was hacked

News

Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion

News

"In India we see four people travelling by motorbike. I thought they could travel more safely by car."

News

Coral colony as old as the pyramids

News

'Dark side' of cancer drugs brings hope of cure

News

Life

Spanking 'brings couples together'

News

Space

Giant ice flows bolster case for volcanoes on Titan

News

Algal blooms' lingering toxicity explained

News

Life

Deteriorating home life puts kids at risk

News

Space

Alien world created star's odd twinkle

News

Technology

Morphing liquid could lead to cancer breath test

News

Earth

Volcano plumes spin up a storm

News

Life

Our complex brains thrive on the edge of chaos

News

Health

Artificial 'baby butter' accelerates healing

News

Longer summers are killing Mediterranean corals

News

Technology

Robots could flex nanotube 'muscles'

News

Technology

Battlefield lasers move a step closer

News

Earth

Rare animals to feature on Google Earth

News

Space

How to save the world from an asteroid impact

News

Technology

Vibrating touch screen puts Braille at the fingertips

News

Technology

F1 cars get a power boost, but at what risk?

News

Opinion

Media distortion damages both science and journalism

Media distortion damages both science and journalism

Simon Baron-Cohen has had autism research misreported in the UK press WHEN media reports state that scientist X of Y university has discovered that A is linked to B, we ought to be able to trust them. Sadly, as many researchers know, we can't. This has three serious consequences. For starters, every time the media …

Opinion

Time for laws on genome spies

Opinion

Climate crunch warning

Opinion

Grizzly crossing

Opinion

What's hot on NewScientist.com

Opinion

Health

Realities of boozing are tough to swallow

Opinion

Health

Science is back in the driving seat

Opinion

Features

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy

Life

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy

The feeling that history is repeating itself is one of the weirdest sensations a healthy human can have Mr P, an 80-year-old Polish émigré and former engineer, knew he had memory problems, but it was his wife who described it as a permanent sense of déjà vu. He refused to watch TV or read a …

Features

Earth

Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity

Features

Space

Can fractals make sense of the quantum world?

Features

Earth

Megaconservation: Saving wildernesses on a giant scale

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.

Enigma Number 1538

Six factors Harry chose two 2-digit numbers and added them together to create a third 2-digit number. Each of the three numbers was the product of two primes; the six primes were all different. He then transposed the unit digits of his first two numbers to create two new numbers, which he added together to …

Regulars

Life

Review: Supersense by Bruce M. Hood

Books & Arts

Review: Animal Investigators by Laurel A. Neme

Books & Arts

Space

Review: The Georgian Star by Michael D. Lemonick

Books & Arts

Review: Shapes by Philip Ball

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

Aromatic car tyres for times with the opposite sex SEARCHING online for some new car tyres, Jon Chard came across the Kumho company. He was surprised to discover that choosing the correct fragrance of a tyre can be as important as issues like handling, ride, noise and economy. At least, that's what he thinks the …

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