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19 June 2010

Issue 2765

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Genome at 10: Faster, cheaper... worse

Life

Genome at 10: Faster, cheaper... worse

Features
Genome at 10: The project few wanted

Life

Genome at 10: The project few wanted

Features
Genome at 10: Medicine's slow revolution

Life

Genome at 10: Medicine's slow revolution

Features
Genome at 10: Meet your ancestors

Life

Genome at 10: Meet your ancestors

Features
Genome at 10: A dizzying journey into complexity

Life

Genome at 10: A dizzying journey into complexity

Features
Genome at 10: The hunt for the 'dark matter'

Life

Genome at 10: The hunt for the 'dark matter'

Features
Genome at 10: Information overload

Life

Genome at 10: Information overload

Features
Desktop cosmos: Small is beautiful for big physics

Space

Desktop cosmos: Small is beautiful for big physics

Features
Drastic measures save plastic treasures

Technology

Drastic measures save plastic treasures

Features
Quiz: A question of science

Quiz: A question of science

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.

Technology

Flexible nanocircuits can be drawn with heat

A hot pen that "draws" nanoscale circuits onto atom-thick sheets of carbon could make flexible electronics devices easier to manufacture. Silicon is still the material of choice for computer chips, but the electronic properties that make it so appealing begin to break down as parts shrink much below a few tens of nanometres . Graphene …

News

Earth

US pollsters argue over public view on climate change

News

Earth

Himalayan ice is stable, but Asia faces drought

News

Life

World's first plastic antibody works in mice

News

Space

Has Jupiter sent cosmology down a false trail?

News

Space

Hayabusa: The falcon has landed – what's it caught?

News

Health

Refashioned rat livers could boost transplants

News

Life

US animal researchers face criminal charges

News

Health

Sea snail venom provides potent pain relief

News

Life

Male voices reveal owner's strength

News

Earth

Thank the Soviets for Afghan mineral bounty

News

Earth

Is it time to say goodbye cool world?

News

Technology

Pulses of darkness let digital data travel farther

News

Earth

China plans to put out its coalfield fires

News

Health

Important stem cell lines could be denied funding

News

Life

British public 'relaxed' about synthetic life

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

First replicating creature spawned in life simulator

News

Earth

Clean-up of oil spill may cause long-term damage

News

Life

If there's life on Mars, it could be right-handed

News

Life

Weakened flu virus proves ideal vaccine

News

Space

Thundercloud gamma rays hint at origins of lightning

News

Life

You needn't be a queen bee to give birth to one

News

Space

Young stars found at record-breaking distances

News

Life

Why spiderweb glue never lets go

News

Life

How the brain deals you a poor hand

News

Life

Genetic on-off switch key to evolution of complex life

News

Technology

Clouds add depth to computer landscapes

News

Life

Protozoan swimming style identifies water toxins

News

Technology

Blogs and tweets could predict the future

News

Technology

Electron 'invisible ink' promises purer nanocrystals

News

Space

Space shuttle's rudder could cut aircraft noise

News

Opinion

Liar, liar: Why deception is our way of life

Liar, liar: Why deception is our way of life

We each live in our own world of meaning, built upon lies How did we get ourselves into this mess? Continual wars and conflicts, climate change and economic crisis loom at the international level, while as individuals we continue, generation after generation, to inflict pain and suffering not only on other people but on ourselves. …

Opinion

Earth

David King: No cause for climate despair

Opinion

Life

The fruit fly formerly known as Drosophila

Opinion

Earth

Jesse Ausubel: Let there be (no) light

Opinion

Features

Genome at 10: The project few wanted

Life

Genome at 10: The project few wanted

Who'd want to read that? BACK in 1984, Robert Sinsheimer had a problem. As chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, he had raised $36 million towards the $70 million needed for a new telescope , but a new donor had suddenly stepped in and provided the whole $70 million. An enviable problem, perhaps, …

Features

Life

Genome at 10: Medicine's slow revolution

Features

Life

Genome at 10: Meet your ancestors

Features

Life

Genome at 10: A dizzying journey into complexity

Features

Life

Genome at 10: Faster, cheaper... worse

Features

Life

Genome at 10: The hunt for the 'dark matter'

Features

Life

Genome at 10: Information overload

Features

Space

Desktop cosmos: Small is beautiful for big physics

Features

Technology

Drastic measures save plastic treasures

Features

Quiz: A question of science

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 1600

Double-barrelled I have several barrels, each of which can hold a whole number of litres of wine, where none of the numbers is a perfect square. If I take pairs of the barrels in every possible combination, I can measure out an almost complete sequence of 11 consecutive integral volumes with only one volume, 100 …

Regulars

Bonobos have a secret

Books & Arts

Two ways of retelling Botswana's fight against AIDS

Books & Arts

What will happen to the green and pleasant land?

Books & Arts

Skipping along with the heavyweights of time

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.

Carefully crafted subliminal suggestions

Carefully crafted subliminal suggestions SILENT CDs are not the only form of "subliminal" fruitloopery to be found on the net ( 17 April ). A palaeontologist browsing Amazon stumbled upon a "Superior Subliminal" CD at amzn.to/subpaleo which would enable you to "Learn Paleontology now Faster and Easier with Subliminal Programming". The palaeontologist, who had spent …

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Letters

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