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23 October 2010

Issue 2783

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Earth

Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans

Features
Constant change: Are there no universal laws?

Space

Constant change: Are there no universal laws?

Features
Ten years to save the touchscreen

Technology

Ten years to save the touchscreen

Features
Naked and ugly: The new face of lab rats

Life

Naked and ugly: The new face of lab rats

Features

Table of contents

News

Ocean asteroid hits will create huge ozone holes

Earth

Ocean asteroid hits will create huge ozone holes

Will create more than just a hole If a medium-sized asteroid lands in the ocean, tsunamis won't be the only worry. A new computer simulation suggests that the water vapour and sea salt thrown up by the impact could damage the Earth's protective ozone layer, leading to record levels of ultraviolet radiation that could threaten …

News

Life

T. rex was a cannibal

News

Life

Stone Age humans liked their burgers in a bun

News

Space

Kitchen sink experiment simulates exotic white holes

News

Health

Humans eradicate a disease for only second time ever

News

Health

Gene therapy proposed to treat depression

News

Technology

Heavy atoms set to collide at the LHC

News

Life

Synthetic DNA makers warned of bioterrorism threats

News

Technology

Tritium shortage threatens US nuclear disarmament goal

News

Earth

Asia tops climate change's 'most vulnerable' list

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Climate change battle moves to courtrooms

News

What the US midterm elections mean for science

News

Earth

Past climate change influenced human evolution

News

Life

Creationism lives on in US public schools

News

Life

Should schoolchildren be typecast into science?

News

Health

Vaccines could help elephantiasis spread

News

Health

New protein target for antidepressants

News

Health

Prospective fathers should watch what they eat

News

Low levels of vitamin B12 linked to Alzheimer's

News

Technology

Virtual faces get some colour in their cheeks

News

Technology

Cyber-security test range to test critical networks

News

Technology

Now that's what a tweet should sound like

News

Technology

Intruders beware: armed robots on patrol

News

Technology

Brand hack: how to delete corporate logos from view

News

Technology

With this printer, what you see is what you smell

News

Earth

Green machine: Trees may spell trouble for wind power

News

Health

Bill Gates's road map for saving 4 million lives

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.

We deny the inexplicable at our peril

It's the evidence that counts, not our prejudices, even when that means overturning what we thought were fundamental ideas THE cosmos can at times seem an unfathomable place, but beneath its mind-boggling complexity there has always been a solid foundation: confidence that the laws of nature are always and everywhere the same. Now that cherished …

Opinion

Climate war has a new front: the courtroom

Opinion

Robot sentries: a warning from the movies

Opinion

Health

Bisphenol A is everywhere – is it safe?

Opinion

Life

Evacuation expert: Why Hollywood gets it badly wrong

Opinion

Life

Charming computers can help us understand ourselves

Opinion

Features

Constant change: Are there no universal laws?

Space

Constant change: Are there no universal laws?

Change is in the air Editorial: We deny the inexplicable at our peril It looks like physics works differently in different places. If so, everything we think we know about the cosmos may be wrong IT'S not easy being John Webb . Sometimes, when he gives a talk about his work, he gets comments like, …

Features

Technology

Ten years to save the touchscreen

Features

Life

Naked and ugly: The new face of lab rats

Features

Earth

Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans

Features

Culturelab

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Brilliant SF books that got away

From The War of the Worlds to Nineteen Eighty-Four , some science fiction goes down in history. But what about the brilliant books that got away? We asked scientists and writers to nominate their lost sci-fi classics, and we've set a competition for flash fiction inspired by them – read on to find out more. …

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Graduate special: Polishing up your act

Class of 2010, unfurl yourself from that fetal position and stand tall. Sure, competition for graduate jobs is fierce, but don't fear. New Scientist is here to help you shine with our guide to bagging your dream job or PhD – and keeping it. Where to start? It is graduation day and thousands of soon-to-be …

Careers

Graduate special: The briefing

Careers

Dream job: Penguin keeper

Careers

Dream job: Cyber-crime expert

Careers

Case study: the environmental consultant

Careers

Dream job: Biotechnology intellectual property lawyer

Careers

Dream job: Science TV presenter

Careers

Dream job: Rare-plant resuscitator

Careers

Enigma Number 1618

Regulars

Regulars

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Google unsure: is Paris Hilton naughty?

Google unsure: is Paris Hilton naughty? TIME is money, so they say, which may be one reason a famous web search engine has devised Google Instant to shave milliseconds off your searches. Start to type in a search word, and Google's computers will guess what the word is before you finish and flag up its …

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