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29 May 2010

Issue 2762

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Eat less, live longer?

Health

Eat less, live longer?

Features
Language lessons: You are what you speak

Life

Language lessons: You are what you speak

Features
Rise of the replicators

Technology

Rise of the replicators

Features
Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters

Physics

Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters

Features

Table of contents

News

Wanted: hard facts on how volcanic ash affects jets

Technology

Wanted: hard facts on how volcanic ash affects jets

Hmmm, what should today's tolerance be? How much volcanic ash can an aircraft safely fly through? If you listen to the organisations dealing with flight safety, you may believe it's a known quantity, backed by scientific data. Far from it. The fact is, no one has rigorously tested how different jet engines cope with different …

News

Technology

Heartbeats tapped for power generator implant

News

Physics

Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrong

News

Technology

Computer solves 400-piece jigsaw to claim world record

News

Earth

Breakthrough in quest to boost rice yields

News

Technology

Just what we need: sarcasm software

News

Technology

Is there any way to defend against a ballistic missile?

News

Earth

Did faulty cement prime Deepwater Horizon for blowout?

News

Deadly bubble sank South Korea's warship

News

Health

First global effort to fight alcohol abuse takes off

News

Health

Autism-MMR doctor is not giving up

News

Phoenix's wings have been fatally clipped

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Special report: Where next for synthetic life?

News

Space

Matter: The next generation

News

Health

Drug could get into the autistic mind

News

Life

DNA replication... without life

News

Space

Cosmic hit-and-runs create failed stars

News

Life

Peaceful monkeys chill out before the feeding frenzy

News

Earth

Did early hunters cause climate change?

News

Health

Down's eyes are clue to Alzheimer's disease

News

Life

Mysterious fossil is first ancestor of the squid

News

Health

How phones ring a bell in your head

News

Health

Inhale lung chemo to limit organ damage

News

Space

Stellar explosion sends shrapnel our way

News

Technology

Webcam knows how to snub shoulder surfers

News

Earth

Biofuels learn to eat less

News

Technology

Wireless revolution may reach inside microchips

News

Space

Giant airship to carry science back to 1930s

News

Would the real Indiana Jones please stand up?

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.

Venter: The implications of our synthetic cell

ON 14 December 1967, Arthur Kornberg at Stanford University and colleagues announced that they had copied the DNA of the Phi X174 virus, producing an entity with the same infectivity as the wild virus. Though the DNA sequence in question was not known, Kornberg hoped the achievement would aid studies of genetics and the search …

Opinion

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Opinion

Earth

How climate scientists can repair their reputation

Opinion

Tacit knowledge: you don't know how much you know

Opinion

Features

Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters

Physics

Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters

Martin Gardner, who inspired the gathering we report on in this article, died on Saturday. New Scientist consultant Jeff Hecht has written an assessment of his career on our CultureLab blog.

Features

Life

Language lessons: You are what you speak

Features

Health

Eat less, live longer?

Features

Technology

Rise of the replicators

Features

More

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 1597

Next door An encyclopedia salesman was working his way along a row of terraced houses. His standard patter was to ask about the children in the household. At one house the lady who answered the door told him: "I have three children. The product of their ages is 72. The sum of their ages equals …

Regulars

From biology to the Bible, from kindness to madness

Books & Arts

Woods of wisdom: Words around trees, beautifully woven

Books & Arts

A sea change in Earth's prehistory

Books & Arts

Tortoises on the slow road to oblivion

Books & Arts

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.

Those unrelated related items

RANDOM correlations continue their spread across the World Wide Web – particularly through helpful suggestions of "related items". Feedback has so far concentrated on the imaginative offerings to book-seekers on Amazon.com – most recently on 1 May . Now the blight is spreading across online forums. Consider the plight of those seeking help on the …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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