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6 March 2010

Issue 2750

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A measure for the multiverse

Space

A measure for the multiverse

Features
Extermination in paradise

Earth

Extermination in paradise

Features
Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe

Life

Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe

Features
Beyond torture: The future of interrogation

Life

Beyond torture: The future of interrogation

Features

Table of contents

News

World's most sensitive neutrino experiment begins

Space

World's most sensitive neutrino experiment begins

This is the first T2K neutrino event seen in the Super-Kamiokande. Each dot is a photomultiplier tube that has detected light See also: The best neutrino detectors in the universe An intrepid subatomic particle has travelled through the bedrock of Japan and triggered a detector on the other side of the country, heralding a new …

News

Life

Happiness ain't all it's cracked up to be

News

Earth

Volcanic explosions expected in Chile quake's wake

News

Technology

Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen

News

Life

Star and flower-shaped moulds tell stem cells what to be

News

Life

Dino-eating snake killed in action

News

Earth

Massive Antarctic iceberg threatens ocean circulation

News

Space

Mars rover Spirit could rise again

News

Earth

Climategate scientist questioned in Parliament

News

Life

Pest control that's too hot for bugs to handle

News

Technology

Brain scans now catch chemicals too

News

Technology

Mind-controlled prosthetics without brain surgery

News

Life

Females wear the horns in the battle for dung

News

Technology

Finding the facts that online news leaves out

News

Physics

New element copernicium wins a symbol at last

News

Life

Adding oxygen to booze speeds sobriety

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

The brain scanner that feels your pain

News

Earth

The US is lagging on nuclear reactor technology

News

Space

Puffed-up planets are heated like toast

News

Life

Decision-makers betrayed by their wide eyes

News

Life

New DNA technique gives names to the unknown dead

News

Life

Oldest 'writing' found on 60,000-year-old eggshells

News

Earth

Shields down! Earth's mag field may drop in a flash

News

Flies' self-righting reflexes akin to early aircraft

News

Health

Sleep wrong and you'll feel the bad fat

News

Life

Women with good genes may have more sexual partners

News

Space

Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets

News

Technology

The self-charging cellphone

News

Technology

Automatic secretary can tame a bulging inbox

News

Earth

Will the anaconda or the oyster rule wave power?

News

Technology

Bloom didn't start a fuel-cell revolution

News

Life

Organic pesticide doubles up as worm killer

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.

Where coercion has failed, why not try persuasion?

HOWLS of outrage greeted US Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – who claims to have masterminded the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington – in a civilian court rather than before a military tribunal. The protesters' wish to see Mohammed treated as an enemy combatant is perhaps understandable, but …

Opinion

Time to accept that atheism, not god, is odd

Opinion

Earth

Hybrid fusion: the third nuclear option

Opinion

Health

Journal editor: Tobacco-funded studies are bad for us

Opinion

Life

Where do atheists come from?

Opinion

Features

A measure for the multiverse

Space

A measure for the multiverse

Touching the multiverse WHEN cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on general relativity. But there the similarity …

Features

Earth

Extermination in paradise

Features

Life

Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe

Features

Life

Beyond torture: The future of interrogation

Features

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Enigma Number 1585

Diving points In international diving, the judges' score for the dive is multiplied by a tariff that represents the degree of difficulty of the dive to give the points awarded for the dive. The judges' score can be any integer divisible by 5 up to a maximum of 300. The tariff can be any integer …

Regulars

Extreme physics and the ends of the earth

Books & Arts

Night at the museum

Books & Arts

How to build a way out of disaster

Careers

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50 per cent less fat than fat

50 per cent less fat than fat ON 30 January , we reported on the fat content of Cadbury's Mini Rolls. Now Rod Costigan sends us his thoughts about another Cadbury product, Fry's Turkish Delight . The packaging of this "exotic taste sensation" boasts that it is "60 per cent less fat*, and always has …

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Letters

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