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16 January 2010

Issue 2743

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Editor's picks

Five emotions you never knew you had

Life

Five emotions you never knew you had

Features
Nuclear safety: When positive is negative

Technology

Nuclear safety: When positive is negative

Features
Down to Earth: Gadgets from outer space

Space

Down to Earth: Gadgets from outer space

Features
The dangers of a high-information diet

Technology

The dangers of a high-information diet

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.

Technology

Electron-spotting could explain warm superconductors

How can some materials become superconductors, allowing electricity to flow through them with zero resistance? The answer to this mystery may lie in a phenomenon best known from LCD televisions. Admittedly, not all superconduction is a mystery: it is well established why some materials can become superconductors at temperatures close to absolute zero. But in …

News

Physics

'Most beautiful' math structure appears in lab for first time

News

Life

Circumcision: there goes the microbial neighbourhood

News

Technology

How to make a liquid invisibility cloak

News

Earth

Coral reefs are most fecund cradles of diversity

News

Space

Missing matter mystery in small galaxies

News

Earth

Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim

News

Earth

Why Antarctica isn't melting much – yet

News

Life

Why alpha-male baboons allow subordinates sex treats

News

Life

Fake skin patches could deliver helpful genes

News

Earth

US government OKs controversial mining project

News

Life

Brain 'entanglement' could explain memories

News

Health

Tobacco company drove European policy, claims report

News

Health

US war on salt begins

News

Earth

Shipping map tracks marine aliens

News

Earth

Avoiding dangerous warming by 2100 'barely feasible'

News

Space

NASA feels 'plutonium pinch' earlier than expected

News

Technology

World's communications network due an energy diet

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Poor neighbourhoods can kill

News

Earth

Mexican megacrystals formed by climate back-and-forth

News

Life

Paired stars may bear multiple litters of alien worlds

News

Space

Solar system 'on fire' burned up Earth's carbon

News

Technology

Wii board helps physios strike a balance after strokes

News

Technology

Networked airbag could save skiers from an avalanche

News

Technology

How touch screens could shrug off shoulder surfers

News

Technology

'Bugnets' eavesdrop on you wherever you go

News

Technology

Nanotube transistors shrink smaller than silicon size

News

Health

Vaccine for swine flu pandemic was 'morally justified'

News

Opinion

Jim Al-Khalili: Islam's House of Wisdom will rise again

Jim Al-Khalili: Islam's House of Wisdom will rise again

Reminding us of Islam's rich scientific heritage Quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili grew up in Iraq and has become an expert on the golden age of Islamic science. He explains to Sanjida O'Connell how science in the Muslim world will flourish once more Few westerners know about the golden age of Arabic science. How did it …

Opinion

US health gaps shame us all

Opinion

Sifting climate facts from speculation

Opinion

Uh-oh, more emotions to worry about

Opinion

The United Nations of science: why we need it

Opinion

Earth

Errors and lies thrive in cold weather

Opinion

Features

Five emotions you never knew you had

Life

Five emotions you never knew you had

Jumping for joy Editorial: Uh-oh, more emotions to worry about CAN you name the six basic emotions? Take a straw poll of your friends and we guarantee that you will find no consensus. Yet psychologists are unequivocal: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. These are the Big Six, quite literally, the in-your-face emotions – …

Features

Technology

Nuclear safety: When positive is negative

Features

Space

Down to Earth: Gadgets from outer space

Features

Technology

The dangers of a high-information diet

Features

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Enigma Number 1578

Enigma Number 1578

About turn Joe placed six lettered counters on a 3-by-2 grid as shown, reading ENIGMA anticlockwise, and then he removed the E. Penny then slid the counters around, successively moving them up, down or across into a gap, so that after Joe replaced the E in its original position, the letters read ENIGMA clockwise. What …

Regulars

The internet's irregular troops

Books & Arts

No bananas on my space flight

Books & Arts

A moose in suburbia: pest or neighbour?

Books & Arts

Unseen hand that guided the 'miracle on the Hudson'

Books & Arts

Richard Doll's smoking gun

Books & Arts

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Regulars

Life

Hervé This: Why we need to eat technology

Careers

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Zero zero, the jumbo jet graveyard

Zero zero, the jumbo jet graveyard MORE on the occupants of the mysterious "zero zero" map location at 0° north by 0° west, which lies in the Atlantic to the south of Ghana (31 October 2009) . John Relph tells us that he was an airline ground mechanic in the 1970s when 747 jumbo jets …

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Letters

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