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3 March 2012

Issue 2854

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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.

100,000 AD: Living in the deep future

Features
Deep future: Why we'll still be here

Life

Deep future: Why we'll still be here

Features
Deep future: What will we be like?

Deep future: What will we be like?

Features
Deep future: How will our language evolve?

Deep future: How will our language evolve?

Features
Deep future: Where will we live?

Deep future: Where will we live?

Features
Deep future: Will there be any nature left?

Deep future: Will there be any nature left?

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Deep future: Where will we explore?

Space

Deep future: Where will we explore?

Features
Deep future: Will we run out of resources?

Deep future: Will we run out of resources?

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Deep future: What will our descendants know about us?

Earth

Deep future: What will our descendants know about us?

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Table of contents

News

Underwater 'Seaview' lets you explore coral reef

Earth

Underwater 'Seaview' lets you explore coral reef

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Explore underwater life Seaview This underwater 'scooter' pulls a diver along while taking photographs over 360 degrees An example of a virtual dive in action Take a look at stunning wildlife from the comfort of your home An underwater variant of the Google Street View service will from today begin giving web users …

News

Earth

Rain sucks energy out of world's wind

News

Health

New cancer drug sabotages tumour's escape route

News

Health

Insulin produced by people with type 1 diabetes

News

Life

New male spells death for unborn monkeys

News

Earth

Melting sea ice could trigger colder winters

News

Life

Fossil penguin may have been tallest ever

News

Life

Ötzi the ice mummy's secrets found in DNA

News

Health

Challenge of estimating victims in Syrian conflict

News

Health

Cancer deaths will drop in 2012

News

Earth

Antarctic research base goes up in flames

News

Space

Planetary scientists battle over NASA's Mars budget

News

Vaccine for deadly sheep virus is on its way

News

Health

US registry to clear up confusion over genetic tests

News

60 Seconds

News

Ovarian stem cells discovered in humans

News

Physics

Neutrino speed errors dash exotic physics dreams

News

Life

Neanderthals were ancient mariners

News

Physics

How do you make nanodiamonds? Merge carbon 'onions'

News

Rolling stones could mean Mars still rocks

News

Health

New drug offers bigger window to treat stroke

News

Life

Earthshine holds clues to exoplanet aliens

News

Earth

Eyewitness videos reveal secrets of Japan's tsunami

News

Technology

Thermal flashlight 'paints' cold rooms with colour

News

Technology

Shrink-wrap a bridge to make it stronger

News

Technology

Fingerprint photos to save Pinterest from Napster fate

News

Life

Giant fleas plagued feathered dinosaurs

News

Earth

No-waste circular economy is good business – ask China

News

Opinion

What righteousness really means

What righteousness really means

"Morality gives us genocide, war, politics... and also heroism, altruism, sainthood Jonathan Haidt has delved into the tribal world of US politics, where each group is obsessed with its rightness. But as the moral psychologist tells Alison George , self-righteousness turns out to be an essential part of being human You've called Republican presidential hopeful …

Opinion

The future is bright for humanity

Opinion

Earth

Let's protect Earth's unseen life

Opinion

Technology

Why I want to give hackers a career break

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.

A giant among moths

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science ATLAS moths ( Attacus atlas ) are giants of the insect world. They are the largest moths known to exist, with a 25-centimetre wingspan. A common sight in south Asia, they can …

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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.

100,000 AD: Living in the deep future

Our species may endure for at least 100,000 years. So what’s in store? New Scientist tours the coming epoch, from new language to archaeological remains

Features

Life

Deep future: Why we'll still be here

Features

Deep future: What will we be like?

Features

Deep future: How will our language evolve?

Features

Deep future: Where will we live?

Features

Deep future: Will there be any nature left?

Features

Space

Deep future: Where will we explore?

Features

Deep future: Will we run out of resources?

Features

Earth

Deep future: What will our descendants know about us?

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.

Forget fittest, it's survival of the most cultured

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel enters tricky terrain to argue that social structures are key to human evolution in Wired for Culture FOR decades, proponents of the power of culture in human development …

CultureLab

The man behind the hockey stick graph

CultureLab

Break bad habits by forming good new ones

CultureLab

Exploring the ancestry of your desktop PC

CultureLab

Protection efforts may not save endangered animals

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 1687

Predictive powers On my mobile phone the buttons can be used for more than one letter, and the machine predicts your intended word. So, for example, to text "STOP" I type the buttons shown below, but the machine could also interpret that as "SUMS". This desire for compact gadgetry has spread to calculators. The digits …

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Regulars

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Feedback: Highway exit with no return

Highway exit with no return CONTRIBUTING to our catalogue of signs that didn't end up meaning quite what was intended, Chris Robinson sends a photo of a highway exit near Melbourne, Australia. "Bunurong Memorial Park", it advises: "take this exit". The park in question is a cemetery. The Elements, a book by Theodore Gray, boasts …

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