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20 June 2009

Issue 2713

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Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?

Earth

Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?

Features
AIDS denial: A lethal delusion

Health

AIDS denial: A lethal delusion

Features
Animals that count: How numeracy evolved

Life

Animals that count: How numeracy evolved

Features
Moon rocks and how to spot them

Space

Moon rocks and how to spot them

Features

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News

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Schwarzenegger tries to terminate conservation funding

CONSERVATION projects in California's state parks face a bleak future if plans by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to tackle the swelling state deficit of $24.3 billion go through. His swingeing cuts would include funding for 80 per cent of the 270 sites run by the California Department of Parks and Recreation . Those earmarked for closure …

News

Technology

Iran's nuclear plans in the balance

News

Mass circumcision project plans to cut HIV risk

News

Health

Swine flu vaccine gets go-ahead

News

Naval exercises 'probable cause' of UK dolphin strandings

News

HIV dogs California's porn industry

News

FDA to control tobacco, Telescope 'opens eyes', and more

News

Life

Could the orang-utan be our closest relative?

News

Health

Health clues found in Big Tobacco's files

News

'Resurrection bug' revived after 120,000 years

News

"We honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers. Baseej have guns we have brains"

News

Space

Quirky supernova could be something new

News

Earth

Video roadshows transform African agriculture

News

Element 112 joins the periodic table

News

Life

Sleeping on a complex decision may be a bad choice

News

Sun-bleached Parthenon had a colourful past

News

Adult mosquitoes could take insecticide to their young

News

Life

Do bow and arrow predate modern humans?

News

Hot city vegetation pumps up ozone levels

News

Life

Grey hair may be protecting us from cancer

News

Space

Even planets can have fat days

News

Male pond skaters forced to 'sing' for sex

News

Space

Huge stellar nursery found in dusty corner of our galaxy

News

Technology

Small hydrogen car may have a big future

News

Technology

Self-destructing data foils ID theft

News

Technology

The phone that helps out in a crisis

News

Technology

Cash machines hacked to spew out card details

News

Technology

Spider silk could yield super-powerful muscle

News

Technology

Email patterns can predict impending doom

News

Technology

Can we trust military drones to decide when to fire?

News

Opinion

Interview: Living it up at the South Pole

Earth

Interview: Living it up at the South Pole

Vladimir Papitashvili is head scientist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Auroras over the Elevated Station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Vladimir Papitashvili has spent his working life in the Earth's most frigid places. But today, as head scientist at the US's new "station-on-legs" at the South Pole, he spends his days in comparative luxury. …

Opinion

In praise of scientific heresy

Opinion

Health

The race to make pandemic vaccine

Opinion

Elemental drive

Opinion

What's hot on NewScientist.com

Opinion

Earth

Why Japan's whaling activities are not research

Opinion

Health

Why we mustn't let malaria defences crumble

Opinion

Interview: How I'll spend $3 billion

Opinion

Features

Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?

Earth

Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?

Toxic gases and mass extinctions mean Earth isn't always life friendly Interactive graphic: Medean extinctions throughout evolutionary history THE twin Viking landers that defied the odds to land on Mars in 1976 and 1977 had one primary goal: to find life. To the disappointment of nearly all concerned, the data they sent back was a …

Features

Health

AIDS denial: A lethal delusion

Features

Life

Animals that count: How numeracy evolved

Features

Space

Moon rocks and how to spot them

Features

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Enigma Number 1550

Eightman band The letters of EIGHTMAN represent different digits. When representing a number, ENIGMA is the product of GGG and TTT. Furthermore, a six-digit number using the letters of ENIGMA in a different order is the product of GGG and HHH. Please send in the number EIGHTMAN. WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender …

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Space

Celebrating one small step for man

Books & Arts

Space

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard: Space geeks

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Why the dinosaurs really died out

CONTROVERSY still simmers over what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The spectacular favourite, at the time of writing, is an asteroid splashing down off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, but there's always the chance that the main rival theory could erupt onto the scene again in a resurgence of lava flows across India's Deccan Traps. Skulking …

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