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27 August 2011

Issue 2827

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Heal thyself: The power of mind over body

Life

Heal thyself: The power of mind over body

Features
Heal thyself: Think positive

Health

Heal thyself: Think positive

Features
Heal thyself: Trust people

Health

Heal thyself: Trust people

Features
Heal thyself: Meditate

Health

Heal thyself: Meditate

Features
Heal thyself: Self-hypnosis

Health

Heal thyself: Self-hypnosis

Features
Heal thyself: Know your purpose

Health

Heal thyself: Know your purpose

Features
Zombie power: Harnessing parasite mind control

Life

Zombie power: Harnessing parasite mind control

Features
Recharging the battery

Technology

Recharging the battery

Features
Crossing the borderline: Fixing personality disorders

Health

Crossing the borderline: Fixing personality disorders

Features

Table of contents

News

Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death

Humans

Ancient Egyptians believed in coiffure after death

Going anywhere nice for your holiday? This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, Australia Ancient Egyptians wouldn't be caught dead without hair gel. Style in the afterlife was just as important as it was during life on Earth …

News

Technology

IBM unveils microchip based on the human brain

News

Life

Oldest reliable fossils show early life was a beach

News

Life

Evidence for Mars floods all dried up?

News

Space

Stars that steal give birth to backwards planets

News

Life

One world, 8.7 million species, most still unknown

News

Earth

End of Libyan war unlikely to affect global oil supply

News

Higgs boson is running out of places to hide

News

Briefing: Security fears over plan to enrich uranium with lasers

News

Fukushima neighbourhoods may be uninhabitable for years

News

Surgeons may be adapting to 'safe' X-ray doses

News

'Racial gap' found in US science funding

News

Earth

Sustainable fish logos: not all they're made out to be

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Empathy enhanced by magnetic stimulation of the brain

News

Space

Electric ice a shock to the solar system

News

Earth

First link between climate patterns and civil conflict

News

Physics

Photons made to change colour and shape

News

Health

Closed 'back door' linked to sex disorder

News

Earth

Cloud-making: Another human effect on the climate

News

Health

Swine flu, not vaccine, may trigger narcolepsy

News

Space

Gas clouds may have created biggest cosmic explosions

News

Life

Sex at sea lets female elephant seals stay in control

News

Health

Skin cells mimic degeneration in Parkinson's brain

News

Space

Black hole caught grabbing starry treat

News

Health

Hibernation molecule boosts therapeutic hypothermia

News

Earth

New power wave heads out to sea

News

Technology

Smart boxing vest will pull no punches

News

Technology

Dumping friends on Facebook helps make you secure

News

Technology

Image searches 'poisoned' by cybercriminals

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.

Stop ignoring the nuclear waste problem

THE earthquake and tsunami that led to the loss of all electrical power and the meltdown of reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant inevitably put nuclear energy back on the front page. It was the worst accident since Chernobyl in 1986 . The early public and political backlash was predictable, but precious little commentary emerged …

Opinion

Complexity theorist: My formula predicts social unrest

Opinion

Earth

Evolutionary theory can make street life better

Opinion

Stop this terrible waste of scientific talent

Opinion

Aperture

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.

Come hither: The deceptive beauty of orchids

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science AFTER being inspired by the sight of a Catasetum orchid with a metallic-green male orchid bee hovering nearby (see page 24), Christian Ziegler decided to record the ravishing beauty of these flowers. …

Regulars

Features

Heal thyself: The power of mind over body

Life

Heal thyself: The power of mind over body

The active ingredient is our mind A free drug can help treat many disorders with no side effects: our minds. New Scientist reveals six ways to exploit its power "I TALK to my pills," says Dan Moerman, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. "I say, 'hey guys, I know you're going to do a …

Features

Health

Heal thyself: Think positive

Features

Health

Heal thyself: Trust people

Features

Health

Heal thyself: Meditate

Features

Health

Heal thyself: Self-hypnosis

Features

Health

Heal thyself: Know your purpose

Features

Life

Zombie power: Harnessing parasite mind control

Features

Technology

Recharging the battery

Features

Health

Crossing the borderline: Fixing personality disorders

Features

Culturelab

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.

The biology of jargon by gender

In Duels and Duets: Why men and women talk so differently , John Locke's evolutionary arguments are flawed and he oversimplifies sexual differences IN PLATO'S Meno , Socrates guides a slave boy through geometric analysis to demonstrate that knowledge is really recollection of what one already knows. Yet Socrates then reminds us that while the …

CultureLab

Feynman's life in comic form

CultureLab

Olympic sculpture is a marvel of mathematics

CultureLab

The business of taking on malaria

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1661

Enigma Number 1661

Latin art Joe drew a 5 by 5 grid and numbered the squares from 1 to 25 as indicated. He asked Penny to colour the 25 squares using the minimum number of colours, ensuring that for each square and the two, three or four squares next to it no two colours in that set were …

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

Know what we mean, eh? DOZENS more readers have written about the "didn't I do well?" gesture, remaining divided on whether it represents polishing one's fingernails or an invisible medal (23 July) . Bob Millar says that it was common when he was young, as was another interesting gesture which involves a finger laid up …

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Regulars

Letters

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