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27 June 2009

Issue 2714

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Editor's picks

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

Earth

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

Features
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

Life

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

Features
Building a crash-proof internet

Technology

Building a crash-proof internet

Features
Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms

Space

Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms

Features
Surf's up: Learning to forecast the waves

Earth

Surf's up: Learning to forecast the waves

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.

Earth

Africa alone could feed the world

DOOM-MONGERS have got it wrong – there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports published this week. The first, projecting 10 years into the future from last year's food …

News

New York researchers can pay for human eggs

News

Technology

Cool short cut could speed LHC restart

News

Pets play role in superbug spread

News

Earth

Debate heats up over long-term climate forecasts

News

Wind power could supply world's electricity

News

US refuses prisoners right to DNA tests

News

Stone Age flute, Cocaine subs, and more

News

Technology

Bombers vs verifiers: A nuclear race worth winning

News

Physics

Statistics hint at fraud in Iranian election

News

"The physics of the first kiss were off. I knew where I needed to be, but it was hard to reconcile the differences"

News

Life

The genetic secrets of younger-looking skin

News

Space

In search of NASA's next rocket

News

Language may be key to theory of mind

News

Earth

Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands'

News

Why great white sharks are like serial killers

News

Earth

Sun leaves Earth wide open to cosmic rays

News

Gangster leaning is in your genes

News

Giant sperm go back at least 100 million years

News

Space

Mars may hide secret water table

News

Health

Transplant drug turns traitor to tackle viruses

News

Life

Dinosaur demise brought the rise of the elephants

News

Brain sees tools as limb extension

News

Technology

Laser weapon dazzles but doesn't blind

News

Technology

Taxibot could save airlines billions

News

Earth

Chicken feathers could make cheap hydrogen store

News

Technology

Physios recommend a healthy dose of gaming

News

Technology

Triple-engined car could smash land-speed record

News

Technology

Cryogenic chips could end IVF mix-ups

News

Opinion

Finding a fair price for free knowledge

Technology

Finding a fair price for free knowledge

When technology makes knowledge globally available, reshaping the economics of buying and selling it becomes crucial TEN years ago, a piece of software called Napster taught us that scarcity is no longer a law of nature. The physics of our universe would allow everyone with access to a networked computer to enjoy, for free, every …

Opinion

A paradoxical cure for fossil fuel junkies

Opinion

No hiding place for electoral cheats

Opinion

Pirates ahoy!

Opinion

Earth

Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please

Opinion

Viewfinder: Opinions from around the world

Opinion

Features

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

Earth

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

Frozen deposits of energy-rich clathrates could make the Siberian permafrost the new Gulf Burning methane trapped in ice could answer the world's energy problems DEEP in the Arctic Circle, in the Messoyakha gas field of western Siberia, lies a mystery. Back in 1970, Russian engineers began pumping natural gas from beneath the permafrost and piping …

Features

Life

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

Features

Technology

Building a crash-proof internet

Features

Space

Solar ghosts may haunt Earth's radioactive atoms

Features

Earth

Surf's up: Learning to forecast the waves

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 1551

The same chance Harry and Tom each had a set of 15 red and six coloured snooker balls. Each of them had a bag, into which he put one or more of the red balls and four or more of the coloured balls from his set. Although Tom put more balls into his bag than …

Regulars

Review: Wetware by Dennis Bray

Books & Arts

Review: Why Does E = mc2?

Books & Arts

Review: The Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming

Books & Arts

Review: The Illustrious Dead by Stephan Talty

Books & Arts

Life

Review: Darwin's Camera by Phillip Prodger

Books & Arts

Let's get it together

Careers

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It's that time again

WHAT kind of broken clock, we wondered innocently on 6 June , could ever be "right" more than twice a day? Readers have written in their droves to disabuse us of our innocence. Let Barry Morse take the floor first: if there is a change to daylight saving time so that clocks go back, then …

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