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23 April 2011

Issue 2809

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Missing matter: Where did half the universe go?

Space

Missing matter: Where did half the universe go?

Features
Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

Life

Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

Features
Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul

Life

Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul

Features
Notorious big G: The struggle to pin down gravity

Physics

Notorious big G: The struggle to pin down gravity

Features

Table of contents

News

Broccoli helps clear damaged lungs

Health

Broccoli helps clear damaged lungs

Broccoli: is there nothing it cannot do? Here's another reason to eat your greens. As well as helping to prevent cancer , broccoli may also help the immune system to clean harmful bacteria from the lungs. A compound found in the vegetable is now being trialled as a treatment for people with lung disease. To …

News

Space

'Tendex' lines help visualise black holes

News

Physics

Reinventing the wheel: designing an 'impossible' bike

News

Life

First evidence that some dinosaurs were nocturnal

News

Earth

Growing sugarcane could help cool Brazil

News

Earth

Melting sea ice leaves Arctic vulnerable to erosion

News

Space

Medicines lose their potency in space

News

Life

Godlike princess curbs childhood cheating

News

Health

Sewage reveals drug habits in Paris and Adelaide

News

Health

Concern over weight-loss drug side effects

News

Health

Countries to share viruses in exchange for cheap drugs

News

Dark matter no-show at sensitive underground lab

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Starburst megaquake: Japan quake overturns geology

News

Health

New clues to preventing miscarriage or pre-term births

News

Physics

Colliding atom clouds bounce like billiard balls

News

Life

Bear DNA is clue to age of Chauvet cave art

News

Life

On mountain lion patrol in the California wilds

News

Physics

Lonely, spun-out proton reveals magnetic secret

News

Health

Chimps lose out by aping others

News

Twisty light tells left-handed molecules from right

News

Life

True sea snakes stick to one male only

News

Life

We can pick out a tune at higher pitches than thought

News

Technology

Cellphones get help to India's secret sex workers

News

Technology

Covert hard drive fragmentation embeds a spy's secrets

News

Technology

Rearranging the furniture? Let software do it for you

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Ultrafast fibre optics set new speed record

News

Technology

Hackers trick goods out of online shopping sites

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.

Time to rethink megaquakes

FOR more than 1000 years, we have known that the seas off the coast of Sendai in Japan can turn treacherous. An account of how one quake unleashed a flood that swept away a castle town can be found in Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku ( The True History of Three Reigns of Japan ), completed in …

Opinion

Why the web also needs to forget

Opinion

The rituals of royal nuptials

Opinion

The Middle East is ripe for a scientific revolution

Opinion

Life

Baby brain expert: 'Ums' and 'ers' help children learn

Opinion

The secret of science's success

Opinion

Features

Missing matter: Where did half the universe go?

Space

Missing matter: Where did half the universe go?

Mystery matter Forget dark matter – a vast amount of normal matter visible in ancient gas clouds has gone AWOL. Now astronomers are finding clues to where it's hiding WHEN Isabelle Grenier surveys our galaxy, she sees things that aren't there. Atoms, specifically. Atoms that are present when she looks into deep space, to regions …

Features

Life

Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

Features

Life

Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul

Features

Physics

Notorious big G: The struggle to pin down gravity

Features

Culturelab

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The wonder of water

In The Big Thirst , Charles Fishman argues that inspiring awe for our most essential resource is key to creating effective water solutions WE PAY good money for bottled water. But we will often take a few sips, forget the bottle in the car for a day and throw it away when its contents become …

CultureLab

Our dysfunctional romance with plastic

CultureLab

Google's inner workings

CultureLab

Poetry of material violence

CultureLab

An evolutionary explanation of human behaviour

CultureLab

Dream psychiatrist: Freud was out to lunch

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1643

Divisibility test abcdefghij is a 10-digit number containing one each of the digits 0 to 9 in some order ( a ≠ 0). With the exception of the letter which represents zero, a divides abcdefghij , b divides bcdefghij , c divides cdefghij and so on to the end. What are the largest and smallest …

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback: When roads burst into song

When roads burst into song A CONVERSATION about "hearing maps" between New Scientist editor-in-chief Jeremy Webb and Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford in the UK, led somehow or other to the topic of "singing roads". Hearing maps are software packages that architects use to identify potential areas of poor …

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