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3 October 2009

Issue 2728

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Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

Earth

Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

Features
Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet

Earth

Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet

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My little zebra: The secrets of domestication

Life

My little zebra: The secrets of domestication

Features
Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space

Space

Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space

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.

Rocket racers look for new home

ROCKET racing is proving to be rather slow off the mark. A US company called the Rocket Racing League originally planned to start racing rocket planes as early as 2007 but now, besides slower-than-expected technical development , the league has suffered another setback. It has lost its lease on land at its intended headquarters in …

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'Poetic' autism film divides campaigners

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A good year for Africa's farmers, but worse to come

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Whales trailed from safe haven to supermarket shelf

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DNA tests show TB killed mummy

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Computer detects abuse earlier than doctors

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T. rex: dead for want of a dentist

News

60 Seconds

News

Experts call for Nobel prizes to be revamped

News

How astronauts could 'harvest' water on the moon

News

Space

Mammoth black holes push universe to its doom

News

Earth

Illegal toxic waste spotted from space

News

What should we make of the HIV vaccine 'triumph'?

News

Brain implants fail because they cut nerve links

News

Health

Sedatives may slow recovery from trauma

News

Feathered dinosaur older than earliest bird

News

Green roofs save on carbon overheads

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How young rats learn: once bitten, twice shy

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Lack of sleep linked to Alzheimer's

News

Earth

Cosmic rays reveal erupting volcano's guts

News

Earth

India's thirst is making us all wet

News

Physics

Asian quake could trigger California's big one

News

Concepts form in the hippocampus

News

Technology

Latest videos makes Google Earth cities bustle

News

Technology

Think yourself a sharper TV picture

News

Earth

A sprinkling of nanotubes makes plants shoot up

News

Technology

Virtual world disputes heading for real courtrooms

News

Technology

Aid agencies turn to open-source software

News

Technology

Portable pain weapon may end up in police hands

News

Earth

No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world

News

Opinion

Nobel prizes for the 21st century

Nobel prizes for the 21st century

What would Alfred Nobel think? THE merchant of death is dead." That was the headline of an 1888 obituary of Alfred Nobel, who had amassed a fortune by selling explosives. The notice was premature, however: it was actually Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died. The arms manufacturer did not like what he saw, so the …

Opinion

Earth will be OK, but for us it's not so good

Opinion

Technology

My book is mine, not Google's

Opinion

Earth

Peter Zahler: Saving Afghanistan's wildlife

Opinion

Health

Aimee Mullins: Two legs good, 24 legs better

Opinion

Old MacDonald's new farm

Opinion

Features

Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

Earth

Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

Could a post-human Earth resemble the barren mud pools of Iceland perhaps? Editorial: Earth will be OK, but for us it's not so good WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago , he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth …

Features

Earth

Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet

Features

Life

My little zebra: The secrets of domestication

Features

Space

Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space

Features

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Enigma Number 1565

Enigma Number 1565

It's a rollover Joe's puzzle was no rollover for Penny. Joe drew a mini-chess board on a card and made a dice with the letters ENIGMA in place of the numbers. Penny had to select a letter and then place the dice on the X with the selected letter on the top. Then she moved …

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Health

Review: Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon

Books & Arts

Review: Don't Be Such a Scientist by Randy Olson

Books & Arts

Life

Review: Comets and the Origin of Life by Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe and William Napier

Books & Arts

Review: Fireflies, Honey, and Silk by Gilbert Waldbauer

Books & Arts

Keith Tyson: 'Nature is better at painting than I am'

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Multidimensional hair dye and dog whispering

Enter our Darwin Now competition YOU may have noticed that 2009 has been a big year for Darwin – and it's not over yet. On 24 November, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the most revolutionary book ever, the British Council, the Charles Darwin Trust and publisher John Murray are organising "Origin …

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