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20 November 2010

Issue 2787

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Editor's picks

Quantum time travel: Black hole not required

Space

Quantum time travel: Black hole not required

Features
Culture club: All species welcome

Life

Culture club: All species welcome

Features
Giant enigma: The fossil log that isn't

Life

Giant enigma: The fossil log that isn't

Features
Engines of the future: Google and beyond

Technology

Engines of the future: Google and beyond

Features
Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches

Technology

Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches

Features
Engines of the future: Machines appreciate pictures

Technology

Engines of the future: Machines appreciate pictures

Features
Engines of the future: Into the deep web

Technology

Engines of the future: Into the deep web

Features
Engines of the future: The cyber crystal ball

Technology

Engines of the future: The cyber crystal ball

Features
Engines of the future: Search-friendly spam

Technology

Engines of the future: Search-friendly spam

Features

Table of contents

News

Zoologger: The solar-powered electric hornet

Life

Zoologger: The solar-powered electric hornet

Out in the midday sun Species: Vespa orientalis Habitat: throughout south-east Europe, north-east Africa and south-west Asia , and Madagascar Humans have been trying to build solar cells since the late 19th century , but despite over 100 years of work we still don't get very much energy out of them . Our efforts are …

News

Life

Is this evidence that we can see the future?

News

Life

Genetically altered mosquitoes thwart dengue spreaders

News

Life

History's biggest lungfish pops up in Nebraska

News

Technology

Summon a 'demon' to turn information into energy

News

Health

'Gross' disease images best at making smokers quit

News

Health

Haiti faces years of cholera

News

Technology

How to cloak a crime in a beam of light

News

Space

Spacecraft is first to bring asteroid dust to Earth

News

Space

Over-budget telescope threatens other projects

News

Is Jupiter's lost stripe making a comeback?

News

Earth

Row erupts over number of big fish in the sea

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Gene detectives track the rhino killers

News

Health

One day, cells from skin might repair your spine

News

Space

Antihydrogen trapped at long last

News

Is this proof that spooky auras are real?

News

Earth

Life is found in deepest layer of Earth's crust

News

Life

Reef fish make their own mosquito net each night

News

Health

Compound combats triple-negative breast cancer in lab

News

Health

The nano-secret of youthful skin

News

Space

Missing: Milky Way's smallest black holes

News

Earth

Magma mixer and odd plumbing made Iceland volcano pop

News

Technology

World's first ice touchscreen virtually burns

News

Technology

Hi-res camerabot explores great and small

News

Life

Whip-tailed bacteria could 'tweet' to nanobots

News

Earth

Planned US bio-lab is riskier than officials say

News

Life

Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars

News

Opinion

Why 'health' is not fit for purpose

Health

Why 'health' is not fit for purpose

How can you be against health? The idea of health has become too much of a sacred cow to challenge. Time to slaughter the beast, say Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland WHY would anyone in their right mind be "against health"? Surely the only position possible must be "for" health? Not if you talk …

Opinion

Award-winning writer reveals humans behind the cells

Opinion

Physics

Nobel winners: Fun with frogs, pencils and Scotch tape

Opinion

Parapsychology: Lessons from the fringe

Opinion

Why antimatter matters

Opinion

Features

Quantum time travel: Black hole not required

Space

Quantum time travel: Black hole not required

Get back You don't need to set the universe in a spin to see time travel in action – so what happened when a photon with a quantum gun went back to kill itself? CHATTING about time travel in a room overlooking a verdant quadrangle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seems strangely appropriate. The …

Features

Life

Culture club: All species welcome

Features

Life

Giant enigma: The fossil log that isn't

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: Google and beyond

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: Machines appreciate pictures

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: Into the deep web

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: The cyber crystal ball

Features

Technology

Engines of the future: Search-friendly spam

Features

Culturelab

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The idea that could let us see before time

In Once Before Time , Martin Bojowald explains how he developed the idea of loop quantum gravity and how it will soon be put to the test AT THE moment of the big bang, our universe emerged from a state of infinite density, a point in space and time so small it had no size …

CultureLab

Futurology that's tied to the present

CultureLab

New media, but what about old standards?

CultureLab

Magic and the brain

CultureLab

Man created God, and saw that it was good

CultureLab

Automatic translation will kill off shared languages

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 1622

Chances for a business meeting Jack will enter the office today at a random time between 2pm and 3pm. He will stay in the office for 15 minutes. John has a similar schedule, with the entry time chosen independently. They have a business to transact and it requires that they are together in the office …

Regulars

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.

Feedback: Top tips for multifunctional clothing

Top tips for multifunctional clothing WHAT novel items of multifunctional clothing could the fertile brains of Feedback readers come up with? As an inducement, we offered examples of the emergency face-mask bra invented by Elena Bodnar (9 October). That won her the 2009 IgNobel prize for public health – representing work that "makes you laugh, …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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