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6 October 2012

Issue 2885

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Memory: Remembrance of things to come

Life

Memory: Remembrance of things to come

Features
Memory: Do animals ever forget?

Life

Memory: Do animals ever forget?

Features
Memory: How the brain spins your life story

Life

Memory: How the brain spins your life story

Features
Memory: Boosting your mental fortress

Health

Memory: Boosting your mental fortress

Features
Memory: Lost in the here and now

Life

Memory: Lost in the here and now

Features
Memory: Six tips to master yours

Life

Memory: Six tips to master yours

Features
Cosmic rays: Radiation from above

Cosmic rays: Radiation from above

Features
Cosmic rays: Mysterious origins

Cosmic rays: Mysterious origins

Features
Cosmic rays: Learning about life

Cosmic rays: Learning about life

Features
Cosmic rays: Entering a golden age

Cosmic rays: Entering a golden age

Features
Memory: Secrets of a champion

Life

Memory: Secrets of a champion

Features

Table of contents

News

Buddhist statue acquired by Nazis is space rock

Space

Buddhist statue acquired by Nazis is space rock

A deity from the cosmos One religious statue has a stronger connection than most to the heavens. An 11th-century carving from Mongolia of the Buddhist god Vaiśravana was fashioned from a meteorite fragment, a chemical analysis shows. Its extraterrestrial origins make it unique in both religious art and meteorite science. The iron-rich statue, 24 centimetres …

News

Technology

Silk holds the key to devices that dissolve after use

News

Space

Astrophile: Blobby old galaxy boasts hidden arms

News

Physics

Competing claims pile up around new element 113

News

Life

HIV could be turning salmonella nastier

News

Space

Why do we think Curiosity found an old Mars riverbed?

News

Earth

How the mafia is destroying the rainforests

News

Health

Calf produces world's first hypoallergenic milk

News

Technology

World's largest laser misses nuclear fusion deadline

News

Life

Snail sheds foot to stay ahead of snake predators

News

Space

Exoplanets form never-seen-before celestial alignment

News

Life

Virus leads to obesity but lowers risk of diabetes

News

Appeal against DNA fingerprinting cites ENCODE project

News

Health

Fraud in biomed research higher than thought

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Industries make a dash for the Arctic

News

Physics

Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick

News

Life

Build a Mars base with a box of engineered bugs

News

Life

Wasp has hints of a clockwork brain

News

Health

Black mamba venom makes a great painkiller

News

Son's DNA found inside mother's brain

News

Technology

The real Tron: IT security as a shoot 'em up

News

Technology

AI sports commentator knows all the best stories

News

Technology

Webcam + sunshine + time = 3D model of your world

News

Technology

App helps tell your colourful pills apart

News

Earth

Oregon volcano power project gets green light

News

Life

Mammals' ancestor was not as puny as we thought

News

Opinion

The sickening truth about wind farm syndrome

Earth

The sickening truth about wind farm syndrome

Hilltop turbines are being blamed for myriad maladies. What is the truth behind these outlandish claims?

Opinion

Earth

Mayor of a wild domain devoted to science

Opinion

Health

Rationality's Rottweiler sinks his teeth in big pharma

Opinion

Earth

Exploitation of the Arctic must be reined in

Opinion

Environment

It is misguided to cut funding for polar research

Opinion

Analysis

DIY gun project misfires as 3D printer is seized

Technology

DIY gun project misfires as 3D printer is seized

Coming to a 3D printer near you Who would have thought it? Printing guns is frowned upon. Even in the US. Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, found this out last week when Stratasys , the company that made the uPrint SE 3D printer he was leasing, got wind …

News

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.

Look to the ceiling for mathematical enlightenment

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science "I THINK as humans we've always looked into the heavens and the night sky," says photographer David Stephenson . "I guess the ceilings have always been looking up for that kind of …

Regulars

Features

Memory: Remembrance of things to come

Life

Memory: Remembrance of things to come

The discovery that memory evolved to allow us to predict the future rather than recall the past has some very strange implications

Features

Life

Memory: Do animals ever forget?

Features

Life

Memory: How the brain spins your life story

Features

Health

Memory: Boosting your mental fortress

Features

Life

Memory: Lost in the here and now

Features

Life

Memory: Six tips to master yours

Features

Cosmic rays: Radiation from above

Features

Cosmic rays: Mysterious origins

Features

Cosmic rays: Learning about life

Features

Cosmic rays: Entering a golden age

Features

Life

Memory: Secrets of a champion

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.

Humans

How expectations shape your life

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

CultureLab

Diagnosing death in famous writers

CultureLab

How far have we come since Aristotle?

CultureLab

Should we be trying to re-engineer life?

CultureLab

Festival of dazzling displays but no big picture

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 1718

Joe's new property Joe thinks he has found, by trial and error, a new property of triangles. He asked Penny to mark the points A along the sides of a triangle of her choice, each point to be a percentage P of the length of the side from the nearest corner. Then she had to …

Regulars

The haves and the have-nots

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Psychics succumb to the unforeseen

Feedback: Psychics succumb to the unforeseen

Psychics succumb to the unforeseen PANTAGES Playhouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, had an interesting sign outside on 7 September: "Psychic fair cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances". Wilna Dehls sent a picture, thinking it belongs in Feedback. You're right, Wilna. In these disquieting times we felt the need to check. We've looked at all the pixels …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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