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24 July 2010

Issue 2770

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Editor's picks

Social networks: The great tipping point test

Life

Social networks: The great tipping point test

Features
Master stroke: A formula for record-breaking rowing?

Technology

Master stroke: A formula for record-breaking rowing?

Features
Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions

Space

Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions

Features
Alzheimer's unlocked: New keys to a cure

Health

Alzheimer's unlocked: New keys to a cure

Features

Table of contents

News

Super goby helps salvage ocean dead zone

Earth

Super goby helps salvage ocean dead zone

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Goby fish Tougher than the rest A resilient fish is thriving in an inhospitable, jellyfish-infested region off Africa's south-west coast. And crucially it is helping to keep the local ecosystem going, and to preserve an important fishery. The Benguela ecosystem lies off the coast of Namibia. It exists in waters only 120 metres …

News

Technology

Grow-your-own approach to wiring 3D chips

News

Technology

For insects, press print

News

Space

Comet tail confirmed on alien planet

News

Space

Deep space X-ray flash is most powerful ever recorded

News

Earth

Geoengineering fix won't suit everyone

News

Life

Enlist malaria-resistant mosquitoes to stop its spread

News

Life

How a changing diet rules a growing baby's guts

News

Space

Senate to NASA: Build massive rocket now!

News

Life

Skull tells tale of the lost primates of the Caribbean

News

Earth

Fishing skews sex ratios in fish

News

Earth

BP Top Hat cap tests are inconclusive

News

Health

Heart problem no problem for fliers

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Gulf of Mexico becomes an accidental laboratory

News

Technology

Old faithful Tevatron collider leads race to Higgs

News

Space

Every black hole may hold a hidden universe

News

Life

'Sleep control' cells allow blind mice to see

News

Health

Serotonin cell discoveries mean rethink of depression

News

Life

Sneaky dogs take food quietly to avoid getting caught

News

Health

Will a second attempt at IVF be worth the effort?

News

Technology

Camera app puts you in the footsteps of history

News

Technology

Ways to snoop 'private' web sessions identified

News

Technology

Perfecting synthetic sounds for animated worlds

News

Earth

Biodiesel from algae may not be as green as it seems

News

Technology

Too soon to blame Toyota drivers for throttle problems

News

Health

Vaginal gel could slow spread of HIV

News

Life

Stingy aliens may call us on cheap rates only

News

Space

Speeding star traced back to Milky Way's heart

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.

Oil spill memory will fade fast

THE blowout of the Deepwater Horizon oil well is haunted by superlatives. The worst ecological disaster of modern times; the largest offshore oil spill in American history. Does that make it the wake-up call we all need to rethink our damaging addiction to oil? Sadly, no. In a year or two, few outside the usual …

Opinion

Don't fear the tweeter: your data trail is doing good

Opinion

Earth

All power to the wind – it cuts your electricity bills

Opinion

Earth

Genome Nobelist: The hard numbers of population growth

Opinion

Physics

Quark discoverer Murray Gell-Mann: Decoherence, language and complexes

Opinion

Features

Social networks: The great tipping point test

Life

Social networks: The great tipping point test

A data revolution that can help us understand social connections Editorial: Don't fear the tweeter: your data trail is doing good Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour – one that's revealing the mathematical laws of our lives EVERY move you make, every twitter feed you update, somebody …

Features

Technology

Master stroke: A formula for record-breaking rowing?

Features

Space

Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions

Features

Health

Alzheimer's unlocked: New keys to a cure

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 1605

Every month As a novelty calendar, I have made three cubes, and on each of the 18 sides I have painted one different capital letter, with at least one vowel on each cube. These are packed in a rectangular box, on one of whose sides is a picture of how the three cubes might look …

Regulars

Hire out your spare brainpower, says internet optimist

Books & Arts

Mapping the mountain of human DNA

Books & Arts

A good hard look at the future of our energy

Books & Arts

The gambler's fallacy and other tales from the casino

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.

Don't bother to read the licence agreement

Don't bother to read the licence agreement HARDLY anybody ever reads the licence agreements that permit you to use computer software – and that, for all you know, in paragraph 19(b)iii consign you to lifelong slavery with Moloch Computing, Inc. Only Feedback and our readers, we suspect, even try. Certainly, it seems hard to believe …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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