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1 August 2009

Issue 2719

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Editor's picks

Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser

Health

Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser

Features
Seismic boom: Breaking the quake barrier

Earth

Seismic boom: Breaking the quake barrier

Features
Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?

Life

Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?

Features
Dark energy may disguise shape of universe

Space

Dark energy may disguise shape of universe

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.

Food fight brews at Guantanamo Bay

DOCTORS who assist in the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay were accused last week of acting unethically, despite a government review that concluded prisoners are well cared for. Force-feeding has been used to combat hunger strikes by detainees at the US base since 2005, when over 80 inmates staged the first such protest. …

News

Social networks bury privacy policies to stay popular

News

Earth

Mining company abandons orang-utan airlift

News

Wanted: humane mousetrap

News

'Recycled' space shuttle receives safety boost

News

Life

Fertile mice created from skin cells

News

Health

Time to stub out subliminal packaging tricks

News

The stay-alive virus, First up the trees, and more

News

Earth

Did an ice age boost human brain size?

News

Health

Insight: Why dollars alone won't fix US healthcare

News

Fertile Crescent 'will disappear this century'

News

Space

Orbiting gas station could refuel lunar missions

News

Space

Centuries-old sketches solve sunspot mystery

News

Brain cells show surprise immunity to HIV

News

Life

Gene predictions tell an ever-changing story

News

Earth

Ocean swimmers stir the seas

News

Super-evolved bug factories could yield drugs

News

Space

Big dwarf galaxies steal small ones' stars

News

Health

Using fat to fight the flab

News

Hotter weather fed growth of Incan empire

News

Comets wreaked icy devastation on young Earth

News

Erasing memories may stop cocaine cravings

News

Chimps stay stuck in an innovative rut

News

Technology

Sticky tape emits useful terahertz rays

News

Technology

Cosy social networks 'are stifling innovation'

News

Technology

Bored drivers could get a prod from their car

News

Technology

Artificial Intelligence researchers confront sci-fi scenarios

News

Technology

Giant pencil traces archaeological finds fast

News

Technology

Transparent metal could be the stuff of giant planets

News

Opinion

Interview: America turns red, white and green

Earth

Interview: America turns red, white and green

Putting the American house in order The US's stance on climate change has shifted beyond recognition. President Barack Obama's science adviser John Holdren tells Graham Lawton how the US will put its house in order, secure a deal at the make-or-break summit in Copenhagen , and lead the world's fight against dangerous climate change How …

Opinion

Life

From butterfly to caterpillar: How children grow up

Opinion

Get the best from your genes

Opinion

Sloppy food labelling? You'd better believe it

Opinion

Hasta la vista, baby

Opinion

Earth

Comment: Tuna can stay on the menu... for now

Opinion

Viewfinder: Opinions from around the world

Opinion

Features

Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser

Health

Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser

Where you live may affect the allergies you are prone to Get involved: Tell us your food allergies WE WERE just settling down for our flight when the captain's voice came over the PA system. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to disturb you, but we have a passenger on board who has a severe …

Features

Earth

Seismic boom: Breaking the quake barrier

Features

Life

Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?

Features

Space

Dark energy may disguise shape of universe

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 1556

Card trick Joe gave Penny a rectangular piece of card 12 centimetres by 6 centimetres with the instruction that she had to draw four straight lines out from the centre of the card to an edge, each a whole number of centimetres long, so that, by cutting along two of the lines, a piece of …

Regulars

Mind

Review: Froth! by Mark Denny

Books & Arts

Review: The Fallen Sky by Christopher Cokinos

Books & Arts

Review: Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson

Books & Arts

Review: Islands in the Cosmos by Dale A. Russell

Books & Arts

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The otherness of poor footwear

Energy field keeps flies off horses, possibly THE warm summer weather in the UK has brought out the flies in droves, Sue Cunningham tells us. On the lookout for an effective fly repellent for her horses, she was intrigued to read about the latest offering from Hilton Herbs. "Hilton Herbs is proud to announce the …

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