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25 June 2011

Issue 2818

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Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

Life

Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

Features
Speedy genes: Making horses for courses

Life

Speedy genes: Making horses for courses

Features
The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind

Life

The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind

Features
Truth or dare: How to spot a liar

Life

Truth or dare: How to spot a liar

Features

Table of contents

News

Neutrinos caught 'shape shifting' in new way

Space

Neutrinos caught 'shape shifting' in new way

The first T2K neutrino event seen in the Super-Kamiokande in 2010. Each dot is a photomultiplier tube that has detected light Neutrinos have been caught spontaneously flip-flopping from one type to another in a way never previously seen. Further observations of this behaviour may shed light on how matter came to dominate over antimatter in …

News

Life

Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger

News

Health

Chinese medicine offers new Parkinson's treatments

News

Health

Rock yourself to sleep for a better nap

News

Earth

Planting forests won't stop global warming

News

Life

Childhood autism spikes in geek heartlands

News

Technology

Rat memory restored by installing replay electronics

News

Space

Iran satellite is step towards human space flight

News

Earth

Agency report praises Fukushima staff, slams TEPCO

News

Health

Rabies may not be the invincible killer we thought

News

Earth

Earth's oceans on course for mass extinction

News

Life

Parrots join apes and Aristotle in the club of reason

News

Earth

We have the right stuff to sense magnetic fields

News

Space

Largest cosmic structures 'too big' for theories

News

Space

DARPA seeks business model for interstellar travel

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Building a human on a chip, organ by organ

News

Life

Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity

News

Earth

Dozens of countries queue up to go nuclear

News

Motion capture for molecules could make 3D DNA film

News

Early humans' alibi for end of Australian big beasts

News

Mercury was probably pummelled in its youth

News

Health

Red wine's heart health chemical unlocked at last

News

Cancer's hidden fractals could improve diagnosis

News

Technology

Boil water in nanotubes to pop open drug containers

News

Technology

Autopiloted glider knows where to fly for a free ride

News

Technology

Haptic soldiers guided by buzzing belt

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Life

Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro

News

Physics

Quantum magic trick shows reality is what you make it

News

Opinion

The truth about lie detection

The truth about lie detection

Why waste money on technology when humans can still do better? IF YOU want to spot a liar, don't bother with a polygraph. They are notoriously unreliable. In a competition to find the world's most inappropriately named technology, the lie detector would be hard to beat. Yet lie detectors are still relied upon to a …

Opinion

The rise of the reverse cyborg

Opinion

The personalised medicine revolution

Opinion

Health

Irradiating organic food would save lives

Opinion

Physics

Alex Bellos: Tell me all about your favourite number

Opinion

Life

To understand risk, use your imagination

Opinion

Aperture

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Environment

A stone's throw from a chimp

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science THE apes of Bossou, Guinea, have been studied for a quarter of a century by Tetsuro Matsuzawa , head of the Primate Research Institute in Inuyama, Japan. At a field station in …

Regulars

Features

Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

Life

Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward

Automated genetic tinkering is just the start – this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans IT IS a strange combination of clumsiness and beauty. Sitting on a cheap-looking worktop is a motley ensemble of flasks, trays and tubes squeezed onto a home-made frame. Arrays of …

Features

Life

Speedy genes: Making horses for courses

Features

Life

The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind

Features

Life

Truth or dare: How to spot a liar

Features

Culturelab

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When flower power met quantum theory

David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics is a reminder of the unexpected influence a bunch of freewheeling 1970s physicists had on fundamental theories IT'S certainly a provocative title, but for the life of me I could not recall an era to which How the Hippies Saved Physics might have applied. Things made more sense, …

CultureLab

The latest chapter in the story of our ancestors

CultureLab

A strange and wonderful ancient compendium of animals

CultureLab

Why we always look on the bright side

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1652

My artistic nephew is making a lamp which involves using the largest possible number of regular tetrahedra – solid bodies with four faces, each an equilateral triangle – whose faces will be painted with various colours. These will float in a fluid that is agitated and then lit from beneath by a bright light to …

Regulars

Putting biotech on the map

Careers

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.

Environment

Feedback: Chimp brokers outperform professionals

Chimp brokers outperform professionals SADLY, no readers have yet managed to dig up references – other than circular references to Feedback – for the investment strategy that involves a chimpanzee flinging its breakfast at the stock price pages (14 May). You have, however, found a rich seam of other primate pricing exercises. Hilary Gee, for …

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Letters

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