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22 May 2010

Issue 2761

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Meltdown: Why ice ages don't last forever

Earth

Meltdown: Why ice ages don't last forever

Features
Muon whose army? A tiny particle's big moment

Technology

Muon whose army? A tiny particle's big moment

Features
The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu

Life

The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu

Features
Saving the world, one hit point at a time

Technology

Saving the world, one hit point at a time

Features

Table of contents

News

Jupiter loses a stripe

Space

Jupiter loses a stripe

A dark band in Jupiter's southern hemisphere is not visible in this 8 May snapshot, but it can be seen in earlier images The band was present in June 2009 Jupiter has lost one of its prominent stripes, leaving its southern half looking unusually blank. Scientists are not sure what triggered the disappearance of the …

News

Earth

Lost lizards validate grim extinction predictions

News

Technology

Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks

News

Life

Fat lips evolve at record speed

News

Earth

What the climate bill means for the US way of life

News

Technology

Don't hang up: cellphones don't cause tumours (probably)

News

Earth

Mysterious ball lightning may be a hallucination

News

Health

Awaken 'sleeping' eggs to boost fertility

News

Space

Shuttle Atlantis draws near to its final days

News

Technology

History of social network use reveals your identity

News

Earth

Why deep-water oil spills do their damage deep down

News

Technology

Iran's nuclear fuel swap may not prevent sanctions

News

Physics

Proof at last for Boltzmann's 140-year-old gas equation

News

Life

Sleeping newborns are data sponges

News

Earth

Hurricanes cleaned up lead-laden New Orleans

News

Health

FDA eyes up personal genome scans

News

Earth

Could domestication save the bluefin from extinction?

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Big bang, part 2: the second inflation

News

All eyes on SpaceX for inaugural rocket launch

News

Health

Remove HIV's invisibility cloak to defeat it

News

Health

Dementia: Sing me the news, and I'll remember it

News

Health

Shadows open window into the autistic mind

News

Technology

'Human Lego' may one day build artificial organs

News

Earth

Diamonds travel at freeway speeds inside Earth

News

Life

Friendly bacteria could evict MRSA in nasal turf wars

News

Earth

Malaria in retreat despite warmer climate

News

Life

Lotus leaves give up the secret of frost freedom

News

Technology

'Impossible' super-magnifying lens created

News

Technology

Sound-blasting chips for on-the-spot forensics

News

Technology

Shape-shifting 'tube robot' could aid heart surgery

News

Space

Darwinian spacecraft engine to last twice as long

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.

How to persuade us to swallow nanofood

IMAGINE a new kind of food, dramatically lowered in fat, salt and sugar but tasting just as good as the real thing – in fact, it is the real thing. Thanks to nanotechnology, such foods could soon become reality. Yet their promising future is already in jeopardy. Because the food industry fears that consumers will …

Opinion

Slaying stereotypes about video games

Opinion

Deceptive flashes show we shouldn't believe our eyes

Opinion

On NewScientist.com

Opinion

Health

Swine flu hoax? Get real

Opinion

First interview: David Willetts, new UK science minister

Opinion

Life

The wisdom of herds: How social mood moves the world

Opinion

Features

Meltdown: Why ice ages don't last forever

Earth

Meltdown: Why ice ages don't last forever

Immense ice sheets have grown and shrunk many times Ice age timeline BACK in 1993, a boy playing football near Nanjing, China, suddenly fell through the ground. He had inadvertently found a new cave, later named Hulu, which has turned out to be a scientific treasure chest. Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites …

Features

Technology

Muon whose army? A tiny particle's big moment

Features

Life

The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu

Features

Technology

Saving the world, one hit point at a time

Features

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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.

Enigma Number 1596

Semi-detached While Joe was in Hong Kong recently he bought a book of stamps with six stamps per page. From each page it was possible to extract a single stamp or block of stamps (each stamp still attached to at least one other) with any value from 1$ up to the total value of the …

Regulars

Humans

Tracing the fuzzy boundaries of science

Books & Arts

The many-worlds physicist couldn't cope with this one

Books & Arts

Mathematical mystery tour

Books & Arts

Learn all of science in less than half an hour

Books & Arts

What's the best job in science?

Careers

Best jobs in science: Formula 1 engineer

Careers

Best jobs in science: Science journalist

Careers

Best jobs in science: Explorer

Careers

Best jobs in science: Flavour scientist

Careers

Experimental neuroscientist

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Best jobs in science: Inventor

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Best jobs in science: Astronaut

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Best jobs in science: Forensic scientist

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Best jobs in science: Robot developer

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Best jobs in science: Science teacher

Careers

Regulars

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.

Goblin is bad for your elf

Goblin is bad for your elf READER Lucy Pumphrey tells us that her mother says her new camera works much better "because it has many more pixies than her old one". Meanwhile, Lucy's daughter is apparently excited at the discovery that "there are millions of haemogoblins capering round the circulatory system, delivering parcels of oxygen". …

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