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7 November 2009

Issue 2733

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Editor's picks

Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life

Life

Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life

Features
Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic

Health

Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic

Features
Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops

Life

Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops

Features
Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals

Earth

Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals

Features

Table of contents

News

Dreams of Doom help gamers learn

Life

Dreams of Doom help gamers learn

Dreaming about computer games like Doom may be linked to learning Learn while you sleep Sigmund Freud thought dreams were a window into our unfulfilled sexual desires. But the dreams of video game players suggest they have a more practical role: helping us to learn new skills. "It really looks like if you're not dreaming …

News

Technology

Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool

News

Life

Chemical tag to identify black-market caviar

News

Health

Old drugs reveal surprising new tricks

News

Life

Humans are an acquired taste for lions

News

Earth

Clearing oasis trees felled ancient Peru civilisation

News

Space

Cassini makes deepest dive yet into Saturn moon's jets

News

Life

Telescope glitch could delay discovery of alien Earths

News

Technology

Animated ink-blot images keep unwanted bots at bay

News

Health

Injected cells stop body from attacking self

News

Health

Drug chief sacking could stifle 'polydrug' research

News

Life

Murderer with 'aggression genes' gets sentence cut

News

Health

Why fat angers the immune system

News

Earth

Fix climate change or else, say military top brass

News

Health

Poorer countries make drugs the rich world won't

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Genes show when a woman's biological clock will stop

News

Earth

Mass extinction blamed on fiery fountains of coal

News

Instant Expert: The Copenhagen climate change summit

News

Space

TV switch-over triggers rush to see rare stars

News

Earth

Plan to pierce heart of urban monster volcano

News

Backward star ain't from round here

News

Technology

Evidence recovered from dirty DNA samples

News

Earth

Quakes from the 1800s still shaking planet

News

Technology

Ultimate emergency call uses all open channels

News

Technology

Gizmos allow artists to 'feel' their creations

News

Technology

Spy-in-the-cab could improve teenage driving

News

Technology

Pilots' artificial horizon lined up for a revamp

News

Technology

SMSes offer smart apps to basic cellphones

News

Life

Crabs trade sex for protection

News

Earth

Salmon's ecological finprint measured

News

Life

Skin helps heartbeat creep into consciousness

News

Opinion

David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs

Health

David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs

David Nutt was chairman of the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he was dismissed last week by the UK home secretary IF THERE is one thing that politicians can and should do to limit the damage caused by illegal drugs, it is to take careful note of the evidence and …

Opinion

Life

The Peeriodic Table of Illusions

Opinion

Stop selling out science to commerce

Opinion

Earth

Andrea Marshall: Queen of manta rays

Opinion

Features

Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life

Life

Extraterrestrial rafting: Hunting off-world sea life

Sniffing out life on Titan Plumes of icy material streaming from Enceladus hint at the presence of a subsurface sea IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world …

Features

Health

Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic

Features

Life

Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops

Features

Earth

Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals

Features

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Enigma Number 1570

Sets of cubes 1. Find the set of perfect cubes that between them use each of the digits 0 to 9 at least once whose sum is as small as possible. What is the sum of your set of cubes? 2. Find the set of perfect cubes that between them use each of the digits …

Regulars

Switzerland, career paradise

Careers

Life

Nicky Clayton: Dancing with Darwin

Books & Arts

What's hot on NewScientist.com

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Technology

DARPA: Inventing this side of the impossible

Books & Arts

Life

Why did our species survive the Neanderthals?

Books & Arts

The music of Life on Earth

Books & Arts

Malcolm Gladwell's miscellany of myths

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Why it's good to log out

Network addict's mug shot FEEDBACK always enjoys stories about criminals making crass blunders that lead to their capture. A report in the Martinsburg, West Virginia, paper The Journal may provide an example. It tells us of a novel kind of fingerprint that was left at the scene of a burglary, and which has landed an …

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