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27 October 2012

Issue 2888

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The universe: the full story

Space

The universe: the full story

Features
Costing the Earth: The value of pricing the planet

Earth

Costing the Earth: The value of pricing the planet

Features
Loss of attraction: We're running out of magnets

Earth

Loss of attraction: We're running out of magnets

Features
Farmerbots: a new industrial revolution

Technology

Farmerbots: a new industrial revolution

Features

Table of contents

News

Fast-spinning Earth settles mystery of moon's make-up

Space

Fast-spinning Earth settles mystery of moon's make-up

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: How Earth could have spawned the moon Birds of a feather, composition-wise For the first time, two new models of the giant collision that spawned the moon can explain why our satellite seems to be made of the same stuff as Earth. Both rely on the very young Earth spinning much faster than …

News

Earth

Roasting Triassic heat exterminated tropical life

News

Life

Zoologger: 'Wolverine frog' fights with retractable spikes

News

Space

Astrophile: Moon melding made Titan a chimera

News

Earth

Localised sunshade could stop Arctic melting

News

Earth

Thirst for groundwater caused fatal earthquake

News

Physics

Tractor beam built from rings of laser light

News

Earth

The big question mark over gasoline from air

News

Life

No signs of life from Lake Vostok – so far

News

Life

First analysis of beluga whale mimicking human speech

News

Health

US tainted drug deaths are symptom of wider problem

News

Earth

Seismologists found guilty of manslaughter

News

Technology

Recycled photons set fresh quantum computing record

News

Space

Exoplanet 'paparazzi' to stalk worlds for habitability

News

Health

Hormone boost lets mice live longer without fasting

News

Earth

UK badger cull to curb TB is postponed

News

Health

Paralysis breakthrough: spinal cord damage repaired

News

Earth

'Geoengineering' project was about salmon fishery

News

Life

Pioneering Geron stem cell work may get back on track

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Dinosaurs were sexy, airborne and very hungry

News

Life

Bitter taste of infection is good for health

News

Technology

Robots get around by mimicking primates

News

Technology

Need a hand? Wearable robot arms give you two

News

Technology

Bouncy-ball cameras scout out dangerous situations

News

Technology

Paste augmented-reality video graffiti on the streets

News

Technology

Ping-pong robot learns to play like a person

News

Opinion

Gay 'cures' don't work but banning them helps nobody

Life

Gay 'cures' don't work but banning them helps nobody

Therapies that claim to make gay people straight are hateful and dangerous, but banning them won't win over their supporters

Opinion

Health

Crowdsourcing a cure for my brain cancer

Opinion

Life

Mind transfer: human brains in different materials

Opinion

Italian earthquake case is no anti-science witch-hunt

Opinion

Life

Dinosaurs help dispel male existential fears

Opinion

We will succeed in creating magnetic miracles

Opinion

Analysis

Alien hunting: how to find DNA on Mars

Life

Alien hunting: how to find DNA on Mars

Curiosity doesn't go deep enough for its soil samples to contain life No one has looked for life on Mars for more than 30 years, ever since NASA's Viking missions sent back inconclusive results. Genomics maverick Craig Venter wants to change that. Cracker of the human genome and builder of synthetic life , Venter announced …

News

Aperture

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The heart-shaped devil seed

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science

Regulars

Features

The universe: the full story

Space

The universe: the full story

The grand sweep of cosmic history is about to be revealed in the crackle of giant radio waves

Features

Earth

Costing the Earth: The value of pricing the planet

Features

Earth

Loss of attraction: We're running out of magnets

Features

Technology

Farmerbots: a new industrial revolution

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

Thinking up a world ruled by neuroscience

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

CultureLab

Maverick mathematician looks back

CultureLab

Health

Is there an upside to anxiety?

CultureLab

Humans

Mental imagery gives language meaning

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 1721

Odds and evens To the right is a long multiplication sum in which odd digits have been replaced by O and even digits by E. What are the two three-figure numbers being multiplied? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer opened on Wednesday 28 November. The Editor's decision is …

Regulars

The best environmental jobs in the world

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Costly non-existent conferences

Feedback: Costly non-existent conferences

Costly non-existent conferences ORGANISERS of "scamferences" don't just want to make money from innocent academics who book rooms at non-existent hotels (9 June) . Guy Cox writes that sometimes the aim seems to be a bit more sinister: "I signed up for one in Florida, which promised that my air fare and hotel would be …

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Letters

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