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18 February 2012

Issue 2852

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The mystery of the missing brain cells

Life

The mystery of the missing brain cells

Features
Tech before its time: Right track, but no iPod

Tech before its time: Right track, but no iPod

Features
Tech before its time: Xerox's shooting Star computer

Tech before its time: Xerox's shooting Star computer

Features
Tech before its time: Friends before Facebook

Tech before its time: Friends before Facebook

Features
Tech before its time: The missing hyperlink

Tech before its time: The missing hyperlink

Features
Tech before its time: Florida's 1980s web

Tech before its time: Florida's 1980s web

Features
Tech before its time: Apple's 1992 iPad

Tech before its time: Apple's 1992 iPad

Features
Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma

Earth

Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma

Features
Harnessing the quantum power of empty space

Physics

Harnessing the quantum power of empty space

Features

Table of contents

News

Zoologger: Don't bite – how the zebra got its stripes

Life

Zoologger: Don't bite – how the zebra got its stripes

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

News

Health

Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice

News

Health

Ancient Chinese medicine could fight ageing

News

Technology

Bionic butterfly wings are ultimate heat sensors

News

Earth

Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists

News

Physics

Web freedoms fuel 'academic spring' journal protest

News

Earth

Hurricanes deliver fatal blows to wind turbines

News

Technology

LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs – and superpartners

News

Life

NASA scales back hunt for life on Mars

News

Earth

US to resume building nuclear plants

News

Health

Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time

News

Health

Latest US drug shortage hits children with leukaemia

News

Keep dead people's hearts beating for organ donation

News

60 Seconds

News

Russian hot springs point to rocky origins for life

News

Space

Sterile neutrinos leave ghostly fingerprints on cosmos

News

Humans

Why we have moral rules but don't follow them

News

Health

Prune bad brain wiring with magnetic pulses

News

Life

Prions point to a new style of evolution

News

Life

Snakes use sponge action to drink

News

Physics

How fresco-wrecking salty towers build themselves

News

Health

Linking genes, cerebellums and schizophrenia

News

Technology

Stock trading 'fractures' may warn of next crash

News

Technology

Islands on land could make towns tsunami-proof

News

Technology

'Sprinting' chips could push phones to the speed limit

News

Technology

Dealing with death in a digital world

News

Technology

Paper robots could have a strong, gentle touch

News

Opinion

Dingoes in the dock

Life

Dingoes in the dock

Australia's apex predator could finally be officially blamed for an infamous child killing. Time to rethink conservation efforts

Opinion

Research priorities must serve all the world's people

Opinion

Technology

Social media's moment will pass – but when?

Opinion

If morality is broken, we can fix it

Opinion

Health

Broccoli and other wonder drugs of antiquity

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.

One car, 11 big tigers

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science ELEVEN tigers in one place is a lot of cat. Tigers are the biggest of the big cats, and these Siberian tigers are the biggest of the six tiger subspecies. But tigers …

Regulars

Features

The mystery of the missing brain cells

Life

The mystery of the missing brain cells

The idea that we can grow new neurons has brought tantalising hope of repairing the brain after injury and disease. But could it be based on wishful thinking?

Features

Tech before its time: Right track, but no iPod

Features

Tech before its time: Xerox's shooting Star computer

Features

Tech before its time: Friends before Facebook

Features

Tech before its time: The missing hyperlink

Features

Tech before its time: Florida's 1980s web

Features

Tech before its time: Apple's 1992 iPad

Features

Earth

Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma

Features

Physics

Harnessing the quantum power of empty space

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.

Tapping technology will create bounty for all

In Abundance: The future is better than you think , X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis creates an optimistic vision – but does it square with reality? TECHNOLOGICAL optimism is a stepping stone to finding solutions for world problems, from poverty and disease to climate change and pollution. In Abundance , Peter Diamandis, founder of the X …

CultureLab

Climate change may stir geological mayhem

CultureLab

Life as a bird

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 1685

A noted eccentric My whimsical uncle tells me that he goes to his study at a certain time every day, but doesn't say when. On Sundays when he arrives, he winds each of his two eight-day clocks and sets them to the correct time. One of the clocks gains an exact number of minutes each …

Regulars

Industrial PhDs: Exploring the dark side

Careers

It's almost over

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback: Golden section for bladder stones

Golden section for bladder stones THE term "fruitloopery" was coined in this column to describe product promotions that deploy sciency words – such as quanta or tachyons – wildly out of context. We think reader Kim Travis may have extended this definition by finding a boundary condition for fruitloopery, in a paper entitled "The rapid …

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