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22 October 2011

Issue 2835

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Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet

Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet

Features
Climate unknown: How much greenhouse gas to expect

Climate unknown: How much greenhouse gas to expect

Features
Climate known: Other pollutants are cooling the planet

Earth

Climate known: Other pollutants are cooling the planet

Features
Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter

Earth

Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter

Features
Climate unknown: How great our cooling effects are

Earth

Climate unknown: How great our cooling effects are

Features
Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get

Earth

Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get

Features
Climate unknown: How things will change in each region

Earth

Climate unknown: How things will change in each region

Features
Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres

Earth

Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres

Features
Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise

Earth

Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise

Features
Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is

Earth

Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is

Features
Climate known: There will be more floods and droughts

Earth

Climate known: There will be more floods and droughts

Features
Climate unknown: Will there be more hurricanes?

Earth

Climate unknown: Will there be more hurricanes?

Features
Climate unknown: If and when tipping points will come

Earth

Climate unknown: If and when tipping points will come

Features
Quantum hackers: Cracking the uncrackable code

Technology

Quantum hackers: Cracking the uncrackable code

Features
Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room

Health

Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room

Features

Table of contents

News

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.

Health

Sickle cell disease cured by gene knock-out

Switching off a single gene can help treat sickle cell disease by keeping the blood forever young. The illness is caused by a mutant form of adult haemoglobin, but not by fetal haemoglobin. Targeting BCL11A , the gene responsible for the body's switch-over from fetal to adult haemoglobin, effectively eliminates the condition in mice. The …

News

Life

Oldest artist's workshop in the world discovered

News

Technology

Artificial crystals get their own textbook laws

News

Earth

Clean air fixes cold poles in model of ancient climate

News

Earth

Forest loggers join world's biggest ecology experiment

News

Space

Spaceport America conjures up spine-tingling future

News

Earth

Himalayas could become the Saudi Arabia of solar

News

Physics

Neutrino watch: Speed claim baffles CERN theoryfest

News

Health

Guns kept at home are hurting US kids

News

Health

Drug addicts switch to inject in economic decline

News

Independence day looms for Galileo

News

App tracks ROSAT satellite's crash to Earth

News

Texas officials censored climate change report

News

60 Seconds

News

Physics

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

News

Physics

A better way to price the future takes hold

News

Life

Wolf packs don't need to cooperate to make a kill

News

Life

Water's quantum weirdness makes life possible

News

Health

Unbearable itch may no longer be a pain in anaesthesia

News

Life

Snake stores sperm for five years before giving birth

News

Life

Volcano-eating beavers evolved thicker teeth

News

Non-genetic changes for long life passed onto offspring

News

Pluto's rival is tinier but shinier than thought

News

Technology

Smarter cameras help you take slicker snaps

News

Technology

Robot Venus flytraps could eat bugs for fuel

News

Technology

Smart software cracks sound-based CAPTCHA security

News

Technology

Electronic navigation charts could save ships

News

Earth

Wind turbine blades reach out to catch the breeze

News

Opinion

Rover scientist: Why I'm spending 13 days underwater

Space

Rover scientist: Why I'm spending 13 days underwater

Robot scientist, human explorer Aquanauts will test how to move around an asteroid Steve Squyres , lead scientist for NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, will become an "aquanaut" to help pave the way for a future human mission to an asteroid Next week you will be travelling underwater off the coast of Florida as …

Opinion

Physics

How mathematical modelling seduced Wall Street

Opinion

The biggest climate change uncertainty of all

Opinion

Economics joins the real world, at last

Opinion

World's first fat tax: what will it achieve?

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.

Inside the fusion furnace of California's star chamber

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science TINY stars are being created by the world's largest and most energetic lasers in the hope of tapping what could be a relatively clean energy source – nuclear fusion. The National Ignition …

Regulars

Features

Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet

Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet

It's getting hot in here Read more: " Climate change: What we do – and don't – know " From melting glaciers and earlier springs to advancing treelines and changing animal ranges, many lines of evidence back up what thermometers tell us – Earth is getting warmer. Over the 20th century, the average global temperature …

Features

Climate unknown: How much greenhouse gas to expect

Features

Earth

Climate known: Other pollutants are cooling the planet

Features

Earth

Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: How great our cooling effects are

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: How things will change in each region

Features

Earth

Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is

Features

Earth

Climate known: There will be more floods and droughts

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: Will there be more hurricanes?

Features

Earth

Climate unknown: If and when tipping points will come

Features

Technology

Quantum hackers: Cracking the uncrackable code

Features

Health

Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room

Features

Culturelab

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Renaissance learning that shaped Galileo's genius

In Galileo's Muse , Mark A. Peterson navigates the multiple streams that flowed together to form the great mathematician's genius GALILEO was professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Padua, Italy, from the end of the 16th century, a time when ancient learning was being recovered. In Galileo's Muse , Mark A. Peterson …

CultureLab

Birth of biotech: Revisiting Genentech's glory days

CultureLab

Climate change in your wildest imaginings

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 1669

Coloured bricks My daughter has 10 equal-sized coloured bricks. Each is cubic, and has opposite faces of the same colour. The three pairs of opposite faces on each are as follows: Brick 1: yellow, green, red Brick 2: blue, green, green Brick 3: yellow, green, white Brick 4: blue, yellow, white Brick 5: green, red, …

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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: Blue whales versus aeroplanes

Blue whales versus aeroplanes IT HAD to happen. A journalist at CBS News, reporting a school of blue whales putting on a show off Southern California, felt the need to give inland readers and viewers a feel for just how large a blue whale is. Did they start by using the traditional unit for large …

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Letters

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