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26 September 2009

Issue 2727

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Editor's picks

Population: Overconsumption is the real problem

Earth

Population: Overconsumption is the real problem

Features
Population: Technology will save us

Earth

Population: Technology will save us

Features
Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test

Space

Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test

Features
The population delusion

Earth

The population delusion

Features
Population: Enough of us now

Earth

Population: Enough of us now

Features
Population: Europe's problems will grow as it shrinks

Earth

Population: Europe's problems will grow as it shrinks

Features
Better world: Global green heroes

Earth

Better world: Global green heroes

Features
Monster insect mimic lures prey with siren song

Life

Monster insect mimic lures prey with siren song

Features

Table of contents

News

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Bashed your head? You needed a stiff drink

AS IF hospital emergency rooms aren't already full of people who've had too much to drink. Crazy as it sounds, alcohol may one day be given to people with brain injuries to help them recover. The idea has arisen from a study of 38,000 people with head injuries, which found that those with alcohol in …

News

For medical secrets, try Facebook

News

SMS on the wild side

News

Moon is coldest known place in the solar system

News

How nuclear power could fertilise fields

News

Artificial cloud created at the edge of space

News

Earth

River deltas are sinking, thanks to us

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes

News

Earth

Contraceptives to help poor cope with climate change

News

Drug-electricity combo makes paralysed rats sprint

News

Technology

Why 'Star Wars' missile defence lives on

News

Space

How far could you travel in a spaceship?

News

Wind, not water, may explain Red Planet's hue

News

Free will not an illusion after all

News

Life

Years of caste system belie Indians' shared ancestry

News

Mutant mice live the dieter's dream

News

Fungus kills resistant mosquitoes

News

Rare meteorite found by 'fireball' observatory

News

Space

No home in the galactic outer suburbs

News

'Pavlovian' blink test finds sleeping consciousness

News

Break promises but treat workers well

News

Prehistoric farmers cleared of carbon crimes

News

Technology

Entire cities recreated from Flickr photos

News

Technology

Do video games need a character assassination?

News

Technology

Virtual cop to run identity parades

News

Life

Locust flight simulator helps robot insects evolve

News

Technology

Photon 'machine gun' could power quantum computers

News

Technology

Slimy-skinned ships to slip smoothly through the seas

News

Opinion

Preparing for an asteroid strike

Space

Preparing for an asteroid strike

Are we prepared for the possibility of an asteroid impact? THE sight of the solar system's biggest planet being battered by the broken remains of a comet in 1994 left a vivid reminder of our own planet's vulnerability. The scars that remained after the series of giant impacts on Jupiter were more prominent even than …

Opinion

Earth

The real problem with overpopulation

Opinion

When the World Screamed: a warning

Opinion

Earth

Immigrant species aren't all bad

Opinion

Features

Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test

Space

Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test

Video: Asteroid alert Are we ready for it? The LSST telescope will sweep the entire sky in just three nights See the world's most spectacular impact craters IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little spot moving leisurely across the sky. The mountain-top telescope that just detected it is taking it very seriously, though. It is …

Features

Earth

The population delusion

Features

Earth

Population: Enough of us now

Features

Earth

Population: Technology will save us

Features

Earth

Population: Overconsumption is the real problem

Features

Earth

Population: Europe's problems will grow as it shrinks

Features

Earth

Better world: Global green heroes

Features

Life

Monster insect mimic lures prey with siren song

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 1564

My favourite number My favourite number consists of several digits and is not included on my list of five whole numbers (comprising non-zero digits) written below in capital letters, where different letters stand for different digits and the same letter stands for the same digit. I can tell you that although my favourite number is …

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Health

Alec Jeffreys: the 'father of DNA evidence'

Careers

Humans

Review: Strange Bedfellows by David Barash and Judith Lipton

Books & Arts

Review: Creation: The movie

Books & Arts

Review: 'Non-Lethal' Weapons by Neil Davison

Books & Arts

Review: The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the flamingos

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Pharma firm admits it goofed on "E-Waves" phone chip SLEEVES rolled up, Feedback reaches into the piling system where we meticulously store the emails you send us – and we pull out a message from Stephen Freeman about the "E-Waves Phone Chip". Readers with an advanced interest in pseudoscience will already be thinking of the …

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