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8 October 2011

Issue 2833

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Editor's picks

About time: What is it?

Physics

About time: What is it?

Features
About time: Why does time's arrow fly only one way?

Physics

About time: Why does time's arrow fly only one way?

Features
About time: Countdown to the theory of everything

Physics

About time: Countdown to the theory of everything

Features
About time: The body's metronome

Life

About time: The body's metronome

Features
About time: Does it really fly when you're having fun?

Life

About time: Does it really fly when you're having fun?

Features
About time: Everyday time warps

Physics

About time: Everyday time warps

Features
About time: The tribe without time

Life

About time: The tribe without time

Features
About time: Finding the age of everything

Earth

About time: Finding the age of everything

Features
About time: Life on the time-zone borderline

About time: Life on the time-zone borderline

Features
About time: Is time travel possible?

Physics

About time: Is time travel possible?

Features
About time: The world's most accurate clock

Physics

About time: The world's most accurate clock

Features
About time: Will time end?

About time: Will time end?

Features

Table of contents

News

Too much booze blunts your immune system

Health

Too much booze blunts your immune system

You'll be sick Too much alcohol dulls more than your wits. It also weakens your immune system and could make you much more vulnerable to viruses, including HIV. To see how alcohol affects resistance to infection, Gyongyi Szabo of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and colleagues exposed monocytes – white blood cells …

News

Earth

Arctic ozone hole breaks all records

News

Earth

Fukushima's radioactive sea contamination lingers

News

Earth

Political backlash to geoengineering begins

News

Earth

Pacific islands left thirsty by La Niña

News

Health

A little excess weight affects IVF success

News

Technology

Nanotubes help cloak objects in a mirage

News

Immunity and dark energy discoveries win Nobels

News

Fewer big asteroids stalk Earth than we thought

News

Knox trial exposes forensic flaws

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Rules of death: When the end is not what it seems

News

Health

New twist in the tale of Tutankhamun's club foot

News

Physics

Cops on the trail of crimes that haven't happened

News

Health

Bumpy nipple smells guide babies to milk

News

Monkeys 'feel' texture of virtual objects

News

Life

Zoned-out rats may give clue to consciousness

News

Terminal buzz gives bats their hunting edge

News

Brain tweak turns wimpy mice into dominant leaders

News

Earth

Corals might learn to adapt to warmer seas

News

Life

Sexually harassed female guppies bait their friends

News

Bright 'hollows' on Mercury are unique in solar system

News

Technology

Phone tech transforms African business and healthcare

News

Technology

Paper patterns and smartphones foil forgers

News

Technology

Pay as you go solar power makes energy cheaper

News

Physics

Faster-than-light neutrinos? New answers flood in

News

Life

World's first cloned human embryonic stem cells

News

Physics

Cool light to bring quantum magic into the real world

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.

About time: A most familiar mystery

The quest to understand time could do more than just unite the past, present and future

Opinion

Earth

Geology will survive creationist undermining

Opinion

Life

Anthropologist: I slept up a tree to understand chimps

Opinion

Life

Evolutionary guru: Don't believe everything you think

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.

About time: Beer can freezes time in northern heavens

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science TAKEN with a beer can that has been converted into a pinhole camera, this image compresses three months into one instant. The glowing paths show how, from our point of view, our …

Regulars

Studio portrait of big, brainy octopus

Regulars

Features

About time: What is it?

Physics

About time: What is it?

A stubbornly persistent illusion? Read more: " About time: Adventures in the fourth dimension " WHAT is time? It is a question that has occupied some of the greatest minds, from the ancient philosophers to the scientists of the Enlightenment and beyond. Yet after thousands of years of contemplation and scientific progress, there remains no …

Features

Physics

About time: Why does time's arrow fly only one way?

Features

Physics

About time: Countdown to the theory of everything

Features

Life

About time: The body's metronome

Features

Life

About time: Does it really fly when you're having fun?

Features

Physics

About time: Everyday time warps

Features

Life

About time: The tribe without time

Features

Earth

About time: Finding the age of everything

Features

About time: Life on the time-zone borderline

Features

Physics

About time: Is time travel possible?

Features

Physics

About time: The world's most accurate clock

Features

About time: Will time end?

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.

What is your place in nature?

Poet and linguist Melanie Challenger tours half the the world in On Extinction: How we became estranged from nature "THIS consideration must surely tell us that all living things were not made for man." Thus mused the great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in his classic 1869 book The Malay Archipelago . He was describing his …

CultureLab

Postdoc dramas on film

CultureLab

Glimpses of Einstein's personal life through travel

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 1667

His numbers My nephew wrote down a list of 10 numbers, the first of which – a three-figure number – was divisible by 1×1, which is not saying much! The second was divisible by 2×2, the next by 3×3, and so on up to the 10th being divisible by 10×10. Then throughout the list he …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: Ig Nobel prize awards 2011

Feedback: Ig Nobel prize awards 2011

Come here often? See more: Watch the replay of our Ig Nobel live stream FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out on 29 September at Harvard University's Sanders Theater. They honour research which makes you laugh, and then think, ranging from studying contagious yawning? or the lack of it? in tortoises, to understanding …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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