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15 January 2011

Issue 2795

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Editor's picks

Infectious moods: A depressing side effect

Life

Infectious moods: A depressing side effect

Features
Infectious moods: T-cell recall

Health

Infectious moods: T-cell recall

Features
Infectious moods: The happiness injection

Health

Infectious moods: The happiness injection

Features
Infectious moods: Bugs that cause bizarre behaviour

Health

Infectious moods: Bugs that cause bizarre behaviour

Features
Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind

Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind

Features
Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth

Earth

Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth

Features
Casting a critical eye on climate models

Earth

Casting a critical eye on climate models

Features
Pharaonic forensics: What killed Tutankhamun?

Health

Pharaonic forensics: What killed Tutankhamun?

Features

Table of contents

News

Zoologger: How to get elected in a termite democracy

Life

Zoologger: How to get elected in a termite democracy

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

News

Earth

Ammonites' strict diet doomed them to extinction

News

Space

Mystery flares betray hidden force within Crab nebula

News

Technology

Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made

News

Technology

Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots

News

Life

Chess grandmasters use twice the brain

News

Life

Is coffee the real cure for a hangover?

News

Life

Would a placebo work for you?

News

Life

Foxes zero in on prey via Earth's magnetic field

News

Earth

Housing 9 billion won't take techno-magic

News

Earth

We can feed 9 billion people in 2050

News

Space

Fledgling space firm will use old Soviet gear

News

Tevatron collider to shut down this year

News

Earth

Can DNA reveal invasive aliens?

News

Health

Antipsychotic drug prescriptions triple in the US

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Scorn over claim of teleported DNA

News

Life

Elevate yourself to become more virtuous

News

MMR scandal: Wakefield accused of 'deliberate fraud'

News

Physics

Ethereal quantum state stored in solid crystal

News

Life

Sex and space travel don't mix

News

Earth

Vacuum of space no match for the mighty radish

News

The scent of a woman's tears wards off men

News

Life

Is first life-friendly exoplanet an 'eyeball'?

News

Health

Humpty Dumpty chromosomes fast-track cancer

News

Health

Brain training for tinnitus reverses ringing in ears

News

Neanderthals' ugly faces weren't adaptations to cold

News

Technology

Chameleon tanks blend into background

News

Space

Rise of the robot astronomers

News

Technology

Video games may not boost teenage obesity after all

News

Health

Did corruption raise Haiti's death toll?

News

Opinion

Beware the seductions of sociable machines

Life

Beware the seductions of sociable machines

A robot pet may start out being better than nothing but can end up better than the real thing Our lives have become bold technological experiments, but we need to think hard before letting the computers and robots take over, says Sherry Turkle EVERYWHERE we turn, we face unprecedented technological change. On one hand there …

Opinion

Why we have to teleport disbelief

Opinion

How to engineer a better future

Opinion

Winning over the Republicans

Opinion

Life

The medicine maker: I never thought my work could harm

Opinion

Features

Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind

Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind

Happiness is catching The brain is supposed to be isolated from the immune system – but now it seems that happiness, depression and even mental illness really can be catching FEELING happy? Down in the dumps? Or been behaving strangely lately? Besides the obvious reasons, whether or not you are happy or sad, or prone …

Features

Earth

Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth

Features

Earth

Casting a critical eye on climate models

Features

Health

Pharaonic forensics: What killed Tutankhamun?

Features

Health

Infectious moods: Bugs that cause bizarre behaviour

Features

Health

Infectious moods: The happiness injection

Features

Health

Infectious moods: T-cell recall

Features

Life

Infectious moods: A depressing side effect

Features

Culturelab

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Irrationality vs vaccines: Fighting for reality

Three books investigate how so many people have become so dangerously irrational about vaccines – part of a general confusion between fact and belief AT FIRST it may seem strange that a media reporter penned The Panic Virus , an essential new book about the modern anti-vaccination movement and its scientific poverty. Seth Mnookin's first …

CultureLab

The internet's dark heart

CultureLab

Evolution as seen by an alien

CultureLab

How we found the age of everything

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1629

Another new year I have written down three three-digit integers which between them use nine different digits. One of the integers is a perfect square and another is a triangular number. The sum of the three integers is 2011. What, in ascending order, are the three integers? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender …

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: Can this cable turn water into wine?

Can this cable turn water into wine? ALMOST three years ago Japanese electronics giant Denon offered hi-fi enthusiasts the chance to pay $499 for a short length of computer network cable, usually costing only a few dollars (23 July 2008) . The claim was that the cable "thoroughly eliminates adverse effects from vibration". We never …

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