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31 March 2012

Issue 2858

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Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world

Earth

Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world

Features
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead

Life

Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead

Features
Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained

Physics

Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained

Features
Milky Way mysteries: Antimatter factory

Milky Way mysteries: Antimatter factory

Features
Milky Way mysteries: Our galaxy's shape

Milky Way mysteries: Our galaxy's shape

Features
Milky Way mysteries: Disappearing dwarf galaxies

Milky Way mysteries: Disappearing dwarf galaxies

Features
Milky Way mysteries: Andromeda, our sibling rival

Milky Way mysteries: Andromeda, our sibling rival

Features
Milky Way mysteries: Where are all the supernovae?

Milky Way mysteries: Where are all the supernovae?

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Milky Way mysteries: Fast-moving clouds defy gravity

Milky Way mysteries: Fast-moving clouds defy gravity

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Milky Way mysteries: Five oddities of our galaxy

Milky Way mysteries: Five oddities of our galaxy

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Table of contents

News

Zoologger: First animal with ovaries on the outside

Earth

Zoologger: First animal with ovaries on the outside

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

News

Life

False memories generated in lab mice

News

Health

Classical music affects heart transplants

News

Technology

New search tool to unlock Wikipedia

News

Earth

Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point

News

Physics

Neutrino funding crunch could be good news for protons

News

Life

Pressure to tighten up antibiotics on US farms

News

Life

Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy

News

Life

Dolphin social networks are unusually open

News

Earth

Fracking could foil carbon capture plans

News

A fifth of US pharmacies refuse teens contraception

News

Ship formerly known as Exxon Valdez to be scrapped

News

Bacteria could be significant cause of OCD

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Antibiotics may make you fat

News

Earth

Methane cuts could delay climate change by 15 years

News

Physics

Entering the world's premier antimatter factory

News

Technology

Lightning directed by laser beams

News

Square galaxy is a rebel

News

Sensitive blood test detects cancer's comeback

News

Earth

Fossil raindrops reveal Earth's early atmosphere

News

Technology

Driverless cars ready to hit our roads

News

Space

Photon sieves make super-cheap space telescopes

News

Technology

Crowdfunding successes show value of small donations

News

Technology

Bruisable gadgets heal themselves in the sun

News

Space

Clocking galaxy clusters to gauge dark energy

News

Space

Earth has little to fear from a black hole attack

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.

Life

Antibiotics are wonder drugs no more

The side effects of antibiotics may make the war on hostile bacteria trickier to wage than ever

Opinion

We can't see the Milky Way's woods for its trees

Opinion

Earth

How Canada's green credentials fell apart

Opinion

Technology

Would you pay to block your own internet connection?

Opinion

Life

Galactic laser light show might lead us to aliens

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.

See the cities that never sleep from space

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science NEW YORK may be the city most famous for never turning out the lights, but as this image of the eastern US taken from the International Space Station shows, when the sun …

Regulars

Features

Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world

Earth

Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world

Invasion of the bowhead snatchers WHEN a pod of orcas swam past the Canadian town of Churchill on the edge of Hudson Bay in August last year, word of the sighting spread immediately. Walkie-talkies crackled to life as Parks Canada staff radioed nearby tour operators piloting boats full of tourists: "Killer whales in Button Bay. …

Features

Life

Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead

Features

Physics

Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Antimatter factory

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Our galaxy's shape

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Disappearing dwarf galaxies

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Andromeda, our sibling rival

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Where are all the supernovae?

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Fast-moving clouds defy gravity

Features

Milky Way mysteries: Five oddities of our galaxy

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.

How robotics can offer clues to evolution

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog IN Darwin's Devices John Long plunges into a world of blue marlin, robot tadpoles, and scientists chasing the former and building the latter. A biologist and cognitive scientist at Vassar College in …

CultureLab

Lifting the lid on Schrödinger's world

CultureLab

Four billion years of Earth's shifting seasons

CultureLab

The likelihood of waking up dead

CultureLab

More

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Enigma Number 1691

Factory parts The number 3120 is divisible without remainder by each number in the following set: 3, 312, 12, 120, 2 and 20. Each of these numbers will be called a visible proper divisor (VPD) of 3120 because each is visible either as a single digit or as a group of adjacent digits in 3120. …

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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.

Feedback: Historic stardom of number 42

Historic stardom of number 42 STANDING on the shoulders of giants may feel like a fairground ride, since the number of giants keeps shifting. William Wakefield wrote a letter (10 December 2011, p 32) to congratulate New Scientist for starting a feature dealing with the multiverse on page 42 (26 November 2011). This he construed …

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