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12 June 2010

Issue 2764

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Editor's picks

What's wrong with the sun?

Earth

What's wrong with the sun?

Features
Want to find your mind? Learn to direct your dreams

Life

Want to find your mind? Learn to direct your dreams

Features
Family values: Why wolves belong together

Life

Family values: Why wolves belong together

Features
Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas

Earth

Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas

Features

Table of contents

News

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.

Life

Cancer guardian found playing a role in sex

Don't be fooled by p53's humdrum name. Dubbed the "guardian of the genome" for its role in keeping our cells from turning cancerous, protein 53 may also be necessary for sex. The protein flits into action when cells in fruit flies, mice and probably humans replicate and divide their DNA in order to create new …

News

Life

Mystery seafaring ancestor found in the Philippines

News

Life

Hints of life found on Saturn moon

News

Technology

Forget noisy blimps… say hello to the Airfish

News

Life

How religion made Jews genetically distinct

News

Health

Gut bacteria may contribute to autism

News

Health

Later menopause for women with polycystic ovaries

News

Life

Biblical bee-keepers picked the best bees

News

Health

US doctors accused of performing torture experiments

News

Earth

Green machine: It's your eco-friendly funeral

News

Health

Game over for stem-cell clinic

News

Life

Global biodiversity estimate revised down

News

Earth

Snake populations plummet

News

What's the point of the Mars500 mission?

News

Next challenge for space taxis: emergency escape

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Did a 'sleeper' field awake to expand the universe?

News

Health

Paper trail: Inside the stem cell wars

News

Life

Bulldog bats 'honk' when they meet a stranger

News

Space

Did wobbly cosmic strings create huge explosions?

News

Physics

Bursting bubbles beget tiny copies of themselves

News

Life

I'm smiling, so I know you're happy

News

Life

Stress detector can hear it in your voice

News

Technology

Carbon nanotubes create underwater sonar speakers

News

Life

Computerised critics could find the music you'll like

News

Technology

Radiation-soaking metamaterial puts black in the shade

News

Life

Phone sensor predicts when thoroughbreds will go lame

News

Technology

Deter quantum hackers by hiding the photon keys

News

Earth

Gulf leak: biggest spill may not be biggest disaster

News

Earth

Protected forests burn more

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.

Lift the veil of secrecy over peer review

IT IS to the running of the scientific enterprise what democracy is to the running of a country. That's according to the Royal Society , the UK's national academy, where the first recorded example of scientific peer review took place in 1665. Peer review is the system through which scientists vet each other's work to …

Opinion

Wake up dreaming to explore consciousness

Opinion

Earth

Take the political heat out of climate scepticism

Opinion

Earth

David de Rothschild: At sea in a soda-bottle boat

Opinion

Matt Ridley: Optimism without limits

Opinion

Features

What's wrong with the sun?

Earth

What's wrong with the sun?

Video: Sun spots What's up, sunshine? SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and …

Features

Life

Want to find your mind? Learn to direct your dreams

Features

Life

Family values: Why wolves belong together

Features

Earth

Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas

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 1599

Always prime Harry, Tom and I were looking to find a set of three digits (not necessarily all different) such that whichever order one wrote them down in the resultant 3-digit number was a prime. We each found a different valid example. One of Harry's digits also appeared in my example, and one of my …

Regulars

Birds as you've never seen them before

Books & Arts

What makes good doctors go bad?

Books & Arts

In search of the gamer's fix

Books & Arts

Oddball animal behaviour to amuse and disgust

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.

World Cup competition: what's your excuse?

World Cup competition: what's your excuse? THE 2010 World Cup tournament begins Friday 11 June. To mark the occasion, we offer you the chance to win an official World Cup football, designed and made by Adidas. Last week's feature article "World cup highs and lows" looked at the strange effects of altitude on football (5 …

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