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9 October 2010

Issue 2781

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Editor's picks

Eating Skippy: Is kangaroo the kindest meat?

Earth

Eating Skippy: Is kangaroo the kindest meat?

Features
Unweaving the cosmic web: Relativity goes large

Space

Unweaving the cosmic web: Relativity goes large

Features
50 ideas to change science: Earth

Earth

50 ideas to change science: Earth

Features
50 ideas to change science: Ecology

Earth

50 ideas to change science: Ecology

Features
50 ideas to change science: Genetics

Life

50 ideas to change science: Genetics

Features
50 ideas to change science: Neuroscience

Life

50 ideas to change science: Neuroscience

Features
50 ideas to change science: Artificial life

Life

50 ideas to change science: Artificial life

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

Nokia touchscreen creates texture illusion

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Tactile phone Nokia has developed a prototype of its N900 smartphone that lets you feel the texture of icons on the screen – a technology that would add a whole new dimension to touchscreen apps. This week, Nokia researcher Piers Andrew showed how the technology could give each icon its own feel or …

News

Health

Have gene findings taken the stigma from ADHD?

News

Life

Trademark swimsuit gave penguin ancestors the edge

News

Space

US congress clears private space taxis for lift-off

News

Health

New route to stem cell therapy opens up

News

Technology

Extreme PowerPoint places you in 3D slide show

News

Technology

Audio zoom picks out lone voice in the crowd

News

Health

Video highlights best candidates for IVF

News

Census of Marine Life reveals bizarre deep-sea sights

News

Technology

Innovation: Online army turns the tide on automation

News

Life

Daily choices can affect long-term happiness

News

Life

Thighs and abs have a different take on fat

News

Health

Antibody reverses final throes of cancer in mice

News

Earth

Grey wolf hunt creates bitter row in US

News

Health

Anti-dengue mosquitoes to hit Australia and Vietnam

News

Health

Call for ban on codeine

News

Physicists win Nobel using sticky tape and pencil

News

Vatican objects after IVF pioneer wins medicine Nobel

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Louisiana revival: Eco-engineering on a giant scale

News

Earth

Forget a climate deal – we need a carbon police first

News

Physics

First frictionless superfluid molecules created

News

Life

How to find out if exo-Earths host life

News

Earth

Sun's activity flies in face of climate expectations

News

Life

Meet the oldest dino ancestor yet

News

Space

Black widow pulsar is fattest collapsed star yet

News

Physics

Quantum thermometers usher in the big chill

News

Earth

The green city that has a brain

News

Technology

You too can have a dream body – in your movies

News

Opinion

Prodigy psychologist: The gifted child's curse

Life

Prodigy psychologist: The gifted child's curse

According the Joan Freeman there are negatives as well as positives When children are labelled as "gifted" we like to think the world will be their oyster when they grow up. Be very careful, warns British psychologist Joan Freeman. As she explains to Alison George, her 35 years of studying children with extraordinary abilities has …

Opinion

How to stay ahead of the future

Opinion

Biodiversity trumps 'nature' in the Gulf

Opinion

Tea Party luring US into adventures in irrationality

Opinion

Technology

Stuxnet: the online front line

Opinion

Physics

LHC chief: Finding nothing 'would be interesting'

Opinion

Features

Eating Skippy: Is kangaroo the kindest meat?

Earth

Eating Skippy: Is kangaroo the kindest meat?

Can kangaroo meat's green credentials convince a dedicated veggie to turn kangatarian? New Scientist goes hunting for an answer

Features

Space

Unweaving the cosmic web: Relativity goes large

Features

Earth

50 ideas to change science: Earth

Features

Earth

50 ideas to change science: Ecology

Features

Life

50 ideas to change science: Genetics

Features

Life

50 ideas to change science: Neuroscience

Features

Life

50 ideas to change science: Artificial life

Features

More

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Enigma Number 1616

One good turn Joe's 3-by-3 grid can be made to represent any of the six faces of a die by placing nine counters, coloured on one side and white on the other. Joe placed the nine counters with just the one in the centre coloured side up. Penny's task this week is to increase the …

Regulars

The man who knows how to get The Last Word

Books & Arts

Visions of toxic industrial splendour

Books & Arts

Regulars

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2010 Ig Nobel prizes: the winners

2010 Ig Nobel prizes: the winners FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out last week in a glittering ceremony at Harvard University. They salute achievements that "make you laugh, then make you think". One of these winners seems destined for Ig Nobel immortality: the epic report "Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time", …

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Letters

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