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13 February 2010

Issue 2747

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Primordial giant: The star that time forgot

Space

Primordial giant: The star that time forgot

Features
My big fat geek wedding: Tears, joy and oxytocin

Life

My big fat geek wedding: Tears, joy and oxytocin

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Healing touch: the key to regenerating bodies

Technology

Healing touch: the key to regenerating bodies

Features
Martian sheen: Life on the rocks

Life

Martian sheen: Life on the rocks

Features

Table of contents

News

Found: The first ever animal trails

Life

Found: The first ever animal trails

Smears in 565 million year old rocks are the first signs of mobile life forms that have been found; they are up to 13 millimetres wide The tracks were found at Missing Point, in Newfoundland, Canada – a site which is famous among palaeontologists for harbouring the remains of the first large complex life forms …

News

Health

The secret of a sperm's wiggle

News

Space

Messy galactic mergers lead to delicate spiral shapes

News

Health

Ale is good, make no bones about it

News

Technology

World's most precise clock created

News

Health

Smoking may pose 'third-hand' cancer hazard

News

Technology

What the LHC could find at half-power

News

Earth

Somali pirates hold science to ransom

News

Health

Stop patents on diagnostic genes, says US panel

News

Health

Breast cancer and depression treatments don't mix

News

Technology

Iran's uranium a step away from weapon grade

News

Health

Infection insight raises hopes of better anti-HIV gels

News

Earth

Weather model shows where California will burn

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Space 2020: what NASA will do next

News

Technology

Entangled photons love a bumpy ride

News

Health

Chromosome caps presage the brain's decline

News

Health

Act early in life to close health gaps across society

News

Life

Stinky flower is kept warm by yeast partner

News

Life

A gene for Alzheimer's makes you smarter

News

Life

Slime mould considers the menu before going to dinner

News

Life

Assassin bugs stalk and lure their hapless prey

News

Earth

Australia's rain may have moved to Antarctica

News

Technology

Boring conversation? Let your computer listen for you

News

Technology

Toyota's car recall sparks 'drive-by-wire' concerns

News

Technology

Pliable power pack will let gadgets feed on your body

News

Technology

USB fingerprints identify 'pod slurping' data thieves

News

Earth

Organic crystals promise low-power green computing

News

Technology

Cellphones secured by design

News

Technology

More is merrier for wireless power supply

News

Environment

Cars and oil: fuel for thought

News

Opinion

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.

Space

A turning point for space exploration

Commentary: NASA moon plan was an illusion, wrapped in denial IN THE almost half century since Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth, human space flight has been the preserve of state agencies – first Russian and American, and more recently Chinese too. That could be set to change, as the US charts a new course for …

Opinion

A fair society is better for all of us

Opinion

Humans

How to put science into romance

Opinion

Nobel Foundation: Why we said no to reform

Opinion

Health

Paul Nurse: A big bang for British medical research

Opinion

Life

Xu Xing: Unearthing how dinosaurs became birds

Opinion

Features

Primordial giant: The star that time forgot

Space

Primordial giant: The star that time forgot

Messages from a long-lost universe At first, there didn't seem anything earth-shattering about the tiny point of light that pricked the southern Californian sky on a mild night in early April 2007. Only the robotic eyes of the Nearby Supernova Factory , a project designed to spy out distant stellar explosions, spotted it from the …

Features

Life

My big fat geek wedding: Tears, joy and oxytocin

Features

Technology

Healing touch: the key to regenerating bodies

Features

Life

Martian sheen: Life on the rocks

Features

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Enigma Number 1582

Bit tricky Joe thought he would test Penny's ability to manipulate equations this week. So he asked her to find the values of the integers A, B and C in the following equation. What are the values of A, B and C? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer …

Regulars

Are you depressed or are you sad?

Books & Arts

A caring god would not have designed us like this

Books & Arts

Why monogamists need big brains and other stories

Books & Arts

What's wrong with the 21st century

Books & Arts

Jeremy Rifkin: The third industrial revolution

Books & Arts

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Underground geometry

The corner of the circle LONDON'S underground rail map has been an inspiration to topologists ever since Harry Beck produced his 1933 masterpiece . Before then, travellers had to grapple with representations of the messy geography of the city linked by a confusing network of tunnels dug by competing companies. Beck tidied it all up …

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