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12 November 2011

Issue 2838

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Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China

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Decision time: How subtle forces shape your choices

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Mega-rover ready to hunt for life signs on Mars

Space

Mega-rover ready to hunt for life signs on Mars

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Squishybots: Soft, bendy and smarter than ever

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Squishybots: Soft, bendy and smarter than ever

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Table of contents

News

Male wren more alert to female's song than his own

Life

Male wren more alert to female's song than his own

Sing-a-long lover Not all male partners are bad listeners. When male plain-tailed wrens sing complicated interweaving duets with females, their brains buzz with so much activity that it's likely that they pay more attention to her contribution to the melody than their own. The same can't be said of females, however. Plain-tailed wrens ( Pheugopedius …

News

Life

Alien bright lights, big city could reveal ET

News

Health

Skin 'sees' the light to protect against sunshine

News

Space

Astrophile: Attack of the mystery green blobs

News

Technology

Fantastic Voyage probe detects dangerous blood clots

News

Earth

Frog-killer disease was born in trade

News

Life

Cave painters did see spotty horses, not just in dreams

News

Health

Mind control key to improving Parkinson's symptoms

News

Technology

Fukushima scare prompts look at 'criticality' criteria

News

Space

Skyscraper-sized asteroid set to buzz Earth

News

Health

Fizzy drink ban has little effect on students

News

Bio-inspired fix for euro crisis

News

Life

Is it time to let some species go extinct?

News

Earth

Huge rise in emissions as world economy de-greens

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Playing the climate blame game

News

Earth

Atmospheric rivers caused the UK's worst floods

News

Health

Lab-grown blood given to volunteer for the first time

News

Health

Disease-ridden societies could be more murderous

News

Space

Aliens don't need a moon like ours

News

Lab-grown hormone factory put to work

News

Single-molecule nanocar takes its first spin

News

Space

Boom and bust shapes Saturn's rings

News

Health

Microscopic scales weigh up cancer therapies

News

Warm water lured landlubber animals back to the sea

News

Technology

Virtual robot links body to numbers just like humans

News

Technology

San Francisco's huge new quake-proof bridge

News

Technology

Software to investigate cybercrime's social side

News

Technology

Graffiti artists caught out by their handiwork

News

Opinion

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Earth

Climate blame: send for the lawyers

There's a way to curb carbon emissions without having to wait for governments to forge a global climate deal

Opinion

Technology

Darwin trumps self-obsession in robotics

Opinion

Earth

A chance to blame extreme weather on climate change

Opinion

Health

My self-destructing syringe could save millions of lives

Opinion

Health

How I find the truth about sex

Opinion

Aperture

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Paddling through a fog of Arctic frost

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science FOR the past four decades, Bryan Alexander has visited the Arctic to record the lives of the remarkable people who live there, having adapted to winters without sun, temperatures that can fall …

Regulars

Features

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.

Life

Decision time: How subtle forces shape your choices

Struggling to make your mind up? Interpret your gut instincts to help you make the right choice

Features

Space

Mega-rover ready to hunt for life signs on Mars

Features

Health

Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China

Features

Technology

Squishybots: Soft, bendy and smarter than ever

Features

Culturelab

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Mathematics as the raw material for art

In a new Paris exhibition, prizewinning mathematicians team up with artists to inspire works that bring intangible concepts to life Mathematics – A Beautiful Elsewhere , Fondation Cartier, Paris, until 18 March IF YOU think of cosmology, you picture colourful nebulae; with neurology, intricate brain scans. But what does mathematics look like? That's what a …

CultureLab

The riddle of free will goes unsolved

CultureLab

Can we annihilate war with science?

CultureLab

More

A time of change for forensic scientists

A time of change for forensic scientists

With the closure of the Forensic Science Service, forensic scientists in England and Wales are enduring upheaval

Careers

Enigma Number 1672

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Feedback: Increasing deliciousness by 200 per cent

"Experience life as a Tudor," exhorts the UK's South West Trains poster Tim Hetherton saw. "Save up to 18 per cent when you go to Hampton Court Palace by train" Increasing deliciousness by 200 per cent FEEDBACK is not the first to draw attention to the strange claim for Nature Valley cereal bars, advertised in …

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