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13 November 2010

Issue 2786

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Extreme survival: Life frozen solid

Earth

Extreme survival: Life frozen solid

Features
Extreme survival: Creatures that can take the heat

Earth

Extreme survival: Creatures that can take the heat

Features
Extreme survival: Meet the immortals

Life

Extreme survival: Meet the immortals

Features
Extreme survival: Pile on the pressure

Earth

Extreme survival: Pile on the pressure

Features
Extreme survival: What's bigger than a whale?

Life

Extreme survival: What's bigger than a whale?

Features
Extreme survival: Incredible shrinking bugs

Earth

Extreme survival: Incredible shrinking bugs

Features
Extreme survival: The toughest beast in the world

Earth

Extreme survival: The toughest beast in the world

Features
Extreme survival: Dreaming through drought

Earth

Extreme survival: Dreaming through drought

Features
How weird are you? Oddball minds of the western world

Life

How weird are you? Oddball minds of the western world

Features
Feat of clay: From soil to super material

Life

Feat of clay: From soil to super material

Features
Einstein's sceptics: Who were the relativity deniers?

Physics

Einstein's sceptics: Who were the relativity deniers?

Features

Table of contents

News

Edward Norton: What's the first rule of Peace Club?

Earth

Edward Norton: What's the first rule of Peace Club?

Explaining why biodiversity matters The Hollywood actor, long an active conservationist and fundraiser, is a United Nations goodwill ambassador on biodiversity You became a United Nations goodwill ambassador for biodiversity in July – how did you become interested in biodiversity and conservation? I have been interested in these issues all my life, largely because my …

News

Life

Evolutionary sex wars continue despite peace treaties

News

Life

Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills

News

Technology

Cloaking effect in atoms baffles scientists

News

Space

Space telescope spots 'invisible' galaxies

News

Health

Personal genomics tests prompt lifestyle changes

News

Technology

Ice and a slice makes transistors more precise

News

Space

Fuel tank crack is latest of shuttle Discovery's woes

News

Earth

10-year hurricane forecasts are on the way

News

Earth

Midterms change political landscape for climate control

News

Space

Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto

News

Technology

E Ink unveils first colour e-reader

News

Physics

Nuclear bomb debris holds clues to who planted it

News

Technology

All-seeing eye for CCTV surveillance

News

Space

Strange matter flow suggests inflation was incomplete

News

Health

Almost half of US could be obese by 2050

News

Europe's biofuels will increase carbon emissions

News

LHC starts making 'mini big bangs'

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Human evolution was shaped by plate tectonics

News

Life

Born to laugh, we learn to cry

News

Earth

Countdown to 'thermogeddon' has begun

News

Health

Blood bubbles promise new treatments for brain disease

News

Life

Fungal threads are the internet of the plant world

News

Health

Red light forces cancer cells to suck up drugs

News

Space

Quasars fingered for cosmic climate change

News

Technology

First green semiconductor laser plugs spectrum gap

News

Life

Divers could breathe deep with liquid-filled lungs

News

Technology

US internet hosts are linchpin of criminal botnets

News

Opinion

Why space is the impossible frontier

Space

Why space is the impossible frontier

Encouraging words, but could our bodies handle it? Dreams of long-haul space travel or even colonisation ignore basic biological constraints that anchor us firmly to the Earth, argues Theunis Piersma AT A news conference before his first experience of weightlessness in 2007, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said that he hoped his zero-gravity flight would encourage …

Opinion

Life

Why your brain is the smartest on Earth

Opinion

The rational case for irrational thinking

Opinion

The real value of life on Earth

Opinion

Features

Extreme survival: Life frozen solid

Earth

Extreme survival: Life frozen solid

Frostbite mite Read more: Extreme survival: The toughest life forms on Earth More than 80 per cent of the habitats on Earth are colder than 5 °C – but there is no shortage of species that can cope with the chill Get below 5 °C, and enzymes, the biological catalysts that facilitate all of life's chemistry, …

Features

Earth

Extreme survival: Creatures that can take the heat

Features

Life

Extreme survival: Meet the immortals

Features

Earth

Extreme survival: Pile on the pressure

Features

Life

Extreme survival: What's bigger than a whale?

Features

Earth

Extreme survival: Incredible shrinking bugs

Features

Earth

Extreme survival: The toughest beast in the world

Features

Earth

Extreme survival: Dreaming through drought

Features

Life

How weird are you? Oddball minds of the western world

Features

Life

Feat of clay: From soil to super material

Features

Physics

Einstein's sceptics: Who were the relativity deniers?

Features

Culturelab

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Storytelling 2.0: Metamorphosis of the storybook

As stories migrate from print to screen, new possibilities are transforming the art of telling a story and ourselves with it, says Amanda Gefter STORIES have become synonymous with books so it is easy to forget that books are just one technology for storytelling. With digital technologies ubiquitous and growing more sophisticated will the book …

CultureLab

Storytelling 2.0: When new narratives meet old brains

CultureLab

Storytelling 2.0: Adventures in a virtual reality cave

CultureLab

Storytelling 2.0: Exploring the news game

CultureLab

Storytelling 2.0: The digital death of the author

CultureLab

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 1621

Times square Penny thinks she knows everything about "Magic" squares, so Joe suggested she might design a three-by-three "Times" square, where the products of the three numbers in each row, column and main diagonal are all the same. The only other requirement was that all the numbers had to be different integers. Penny found there …

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback: A most prolific falsehood

A most prolific falsehood WHEN Don Dennis and family process bookings taken by phone for their guest house on the island of Gigha, off the west coast of Scotland, their Ingenico TT42 credit card machine asks if the card holder is present or not. They answer by hitting the button indicating "no". The printed slip …

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Regulars

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