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5 June 2010

Issue 2763

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Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die

Life

Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die

Features
Long haul: How butterflies and moths go the distance

Life

Long haul: How butterflies and moths go the distance

Features
Deeper impact: Did mega-meteors rattle our planet?

Earth

Deeper impact: Did mega-meteors rattle our planet?

Features
Feeling the pressure: The World Cup's altitude factor

Life

Feeling the pressure: The World Cup's altitude factor

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

'Light from sound' could spot cancers and terrorists

Semiconductor devices could one day convert sound into light at terahertz frequencies, a radiation range that can detect skin cancers before they are visible on the surface. Such light could also provide a privacy-protecting alternative to naked body scanners in airports. Terahertz radiation occupies the region between infrared and microwave frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. …

News

Earth

Icelandic volcano's ash blanket was electric

News

Life

Exchange meat for sex? No thank you

News

Earth

Sailing ships could harvest fuel from the oceans

News

Rebuilt immune system shakes off OCD

News

Health

Drug defeats deadly Ebola virus infection

News

Life

Snails on speed shed light on human memory

News

Technology

Facebook must heed the human element

News

Space

How short can a planet's year be?

News

Space

Airborne telescope makes its first observations

News

Space

First student-built interplanetary mission goes silent

News

Technology

Impossible figures brought to life in virtual worlds

News

Space

First 'chameleon particle' spotted after changing type

News

Earth

BP's three-pronged attack on Deepwater Horizon leak

News

Life

DNA logic gates herald injectable computers

News

Physics

Entangled photons available on tap

News

Health

Dengue fever strikes US

News

Earth

Memo reveals Copenhagen climate talks blame game

News

Health

Mouse vaccine raises prospect of cancer prevention

News

60 Seconds

News

Out of the shadows: our unknown immune system

News

Space

Distant gas blob threatens to shake nature's constants

News

Life

Early humans had taste for aquatic diet

News

Earth

Shape-shifting islands defy sea-level rise

News

Life

Stem cells turn into seek-and-destroy cancer missiles

News

Space

Giant glowing bubbles found around Milky Way

News

Earth

Ancient oceans belched stagnant CO2 into the skies

News

Health

Trying to quit smoking? The devil is in the drink

News

Technology

Laser detectors could nail TNT

News

Technology

Thumbs up for gesture-based computing

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.

The avatar revolution: Here come the new humans

WHEN it was unveiled in June 2000, the first draft of the human genome marked a new stage in our understanding of who we are. Ten years later and our view of human identity may be changing again. Thanks to the plethora of personal information about each of us on the internet, we may soon …

Opinion

Tread carefully in the immune system's shadowlands

Opinion

Soccer hits the heights

Opinion

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Opinion

Health

Don't waste lab animals

Opinion

Heston Blumenthal: Food's future is jellyfish and chips

Opinion

Technology

Cory Doctorow: My computer says no

Opinion

Features

Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die

Life

Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die

Upload your life Editorial: The avatar revolution: Here come the new humans ZOE GRAYSTONE is a girl with two brains. Only one of them is human: the other is an exact digital copy that has become conscious in its own right. When the human Zoe dies, her digital brain is implanted into a humanoid robot, …

Features

Life

Long haul: How butterflies and moths go the distance

Features

Earth

Deeper impact: Did mega-meteors rattle our planet?

Features

Life

Feeling the pressure: The World Cup's altitude factor

Features

More

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Enigma Number 1598

Twin squares For my birthday, my wife Astrid made identical sets of cards. On each card a letter of ASTRIDOWEN is displayed, together with its own characteristic digit chosen from 0-9. On the day, Astrid's sister Enid sat on our three-seater settee with our twins Eden and Toni and, when they held up the cards …

Regulars

Farmed to death

Books & Arts

Samuel Fallours and his fantasy fish

Books & Arts

Focus on Germany

Careers

Say red to see it

Books & Arts

Obesity through the ages

Books & Arts

Hone your eco instinct

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Formula 1 team's amazing vests

Formula 1 team's amazing vests READERS Felix Naughton and Fergal Toohey are probably not the only ones who find it hard to understand why the top Formula 1 racing team Red Bull has signed up FIR-TEX (Far Infrared Rays TEXtile) as an "innovation partner". Announcing the deal at bit.ly/BullTEX , Red Bull says somewhat ungrammatically: …

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Letters

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