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3 July 2010

Issue 2767

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From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Technology

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Features
Curious liaisons: Nature's weirdest sex lives

Life

Curious liaisons: Nature's weirdest sex lives

Features
Zodiacal light: zombie comets to blame

Space

Zodiacal light: zombie comets to blame

Features
General relativity: Past, present and future

General relativity: Past, present and future

Features
General relativity: Einstein's insight

General relativity: Einstein's insight

Features
Solar eclipse

General relativity: Physicist, superstar

Features
General relativity: Black holes

General relativity: Black holes

Features
General relativity: The expanding universe

General relativity: The expanding universe

Features
General relativity: Gravitational waves

General relativity: Gravitational waves

Features
General relativity: The dark universe

General relativity: The dark universe

Features
General relativity: Quantum gravity

General relativity: Quantum gravity

Features

Table of contents

News

Bid to introduce commercial whaling quotas fails

Earth

Bid to introduce commercial whaling quotas fails

No quotas here International efforts to agree a new deal on whaling have collapsed, leaving in place the rules that allow whalers to kill around 1500 whales a year for so-called "scientific purposes". An attempt to replace these existing loopholes with a system of quotas for the whaling nations Japan, Norway and Iceland collapsed at …

News

Technology

Lung-on-a-chip points to alternative to animal tests

News

Life

Fear must be conquered, not banished

News

Health

Tutankhamen 'killed by sickle-cell disease'

News

Space

Obama declares war on space junk

News

Space

Closet delay means shuttles set to fly on into 2011

News

Life

Link found between infectious disease and IQ

News

Technology

Share information to boost cellphone performance

News

Gulf oil spill poses unique health challenges

News

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Superhuman performance could betray sport drug cheats

News

Physics

Ghostly, flowing supersolid? No, it's quantum plastic

News

Life

Fossilised cell blobs could be oldest multicellular life

News

Life

If you've got great genes, it pays to be extrovert

News

Life

On the origin of species – by means of pheromones

News

Space

Cosmic bubble made cold spot in big bang afterglow

News

Space

Supernovae don't make the biggest atoms

News

Earth

'Giant hand' pushed up coast of Scotland

News

Earth

Ancient African lake fertilises the Amazon

News

Life

Sense of touch influences our decisions

News

Space

Half-eaten dwarf planet reveals chemical secrets

News

Life

DNA tests to reveal ancestral villages

News

Health

Natural killer cells are at root of hair-loss disease

News

Space

Gamma rays may betray clumps of dark matter

News

Earth

Warm climates boost bird beak size

News

Technology

Search engines learn how to watch and listen to video

News

Technology

Smartphone add-on will bring eye tests to the masses

News

Technology

New plastic recipe thwarts interfering old bags

News

Technology

USB coffee-cup warmer could be stealing your data

News

Health

US obesity keeps on rising

News

Health

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK

News

Technology

Water droplets create multilayered display

News

Opinion

Virtual prisons: how e-maps are curtailing our freedom

Technology

Virtual prisons: how e-maps are curtailing our freedom

They're virtually in prison ELECTRONIC maps are arguably the quintessential innovation of 20th-century cartography. Although a few academic cartographers accord the map mystical powers, it is merely a tool, useful for good, evil or both, which citizens can resist or constrain – up to a point. The question is not whether e-maps will restrict where …

Opinion

Health

Make every animal experiment count

Opinion

Tour the foundations of science

Opinion

Life

It's too late to worry that the aliens will find us

Opinion

Technology

Google should answer some searching questions

Opinion

Earth

SkyTruth founder: Remote sensing for the people

Opinion

Features

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Technology

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Video: "Stingray fin" boat (see box at end of article) Flying underwater GUILLEMOTS and gannets do it. Cormorants and kingfishers do it. Even the tiny insect-eating dipper does it. And if a plan by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) succeeds, a remarkable airplane may one day do it too: plunge beneath the …

Features

Life

Curious liaisons: Nature's weirdest sex lives

Features

Space

Zodiacal light: zombie comets to blame

Features

General relativity: Past, present and future

Features

General relativity: Einstein's insight

Features

General relativity: Physicist, superstar

Features

General relativity: Black holes

Features

General relativity: The expanding universe

Features

General relativity: Gravitational waves

Features

General relativity: The dark universe

Features

General relativity: Quantum gravity

Features

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Earth

'Climategate' jibes fly over El Niño impact on warming

The echoes of "climategate" rumble on with the publication of a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research in which some of the researchers involved take issue with a suggestion that greenhouse gases are not primarily responsible for global warming. A paper published by the journal in July 2009 claims two-thirds of global warming in …

Uncategorized

Enigma Number 1602

Regulars

The climate scandal that never was

Books & Arts

Why people indulge in cannibalism and love modern art

Books & Arts

Apocalypse, but not right now

Books & Arts

The ancients got it right – sometimes

Books & Arts

The long quest for the origins of mass

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.

When did Jesus develop a halo?

When did Jesus develop a halo? IS THERE a particular moment when an unborn baby becomes human? What if the baby is Jesus – does he become divine at that same moment? These questions are raised by an ad campaign featuring an ultrasound image of an unborn baby in the womb. The baby has a …

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Letters

Regulars

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