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3 November 2012

Issue 2889

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Editor's picks

The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age

Earth

The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age

Features
Of lice and men: A very intimate history

Life

Of lice and men: A very intimate history

Features
Does your biology influence your vote?

Life

Does your biology influence your vote?

Features
Artificial intelligence: Early ambitions

Technology

Artificial intelligence: Early ambitions

Features
Artificial intelligence: Everyday AI

Technology

Artificial intelligence: Everyday AI

Features
Artificial intelligence: A new future

Artificial intelligence: A new future

Features
Artificial intelligence: The coming superintelligence

Artificial intelligence: The coming superintelligence

Features

Table of contents

News

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.

Health

Molecules 'too dangerous for nature' kill cancer cells

THAT which nature abhors could help combat cancer, say researchers who've developed and tested weird compounds called nullomers . Their name comes from the Latin word "nullus" for nothing, and the fact that although they can theoretically exist naturally, they don't, possibly because they're too toxic or useless to life, and so the DNA sequences …

News

Earth

Radiation still high in Fukushima fish

News

Earth

Tropical plankton exodus by 2100

News

Life

Zoologger: Humble bee nests in horse dung

News

Space

SpaceX poised to bring back blood and cucumber plants

News

Health

Golden solution to inexpensive test for HIV

News

Earth

Slow-moving hurricanes such as Sandy on the rise

News

Earth

Bugged phone deepens controversy over Italian quake

News

Health

Brain stimulation gives tics to those without Tourette's

News

Life

Flying fish fossils hint at ancient evolution

News

Life

Prehistoric Transylvanian mammal had blood-red teeth

News

Technology

Polystyrene atoms could surpass the real deal

News

Earth

Sandy shuts down New York's power grid and subway

News

Health

Smoking drives women to an early grave

News

Life

Brain circuits run their own clocks

News

Space

Galaxies could give glimpse of the instant time began

News

60 Seconds

News

Technology

Eco-warriors: US military pushes for green energy

News

Life

Last life on Earth: microbes will rule the far future

News

Health

UV exposure isn't the only worry for red-heads

News

'Zombie' planet: Weird world may be back from the dead

News

Orphaned stars linger in dark matter haloes

News

Technology

Mine your language: Software decodes company reports

News

Technology

Will software revamp guard grid against cyberattack?

News

Technology

Flea-like robot takes giant leap in bot locomotion

News

Technology

Want to keep your genome safe? There's an app for that

News

Earth

Are Europe's ash trees finished?

News

Opinion

Obama is still the best hope for science in the US

Obama is still the best hope for science in the US

New Scientist asked both US presidential campaigns for an article putting forward their position on science. Mitt Romney's campaign declined – here, Democratic campaign adviser Andy Feinberg argues why Americans who care about science and its wider benefits should back Barack Obama for a second term

Opinion

Space

Why I've built my own satellite

Opinion

Humans

Oliver Sacks: I want to de-stigmatise hallucinations

Opinion

Earth

The US military is a useful ally on climate change

Opinion

Earth

We must heed the warnings from superstorm Sandy

Opinion

Analysis

Fear of hackers holds back online voting in the US

Technology

Fear of hackers holds back online voting in the US

The technology is ready for elections to be held online, but until cybersecurity is strengthened they are on hold

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.

Shot from a Doctor Who camera

IT'S a still image that is more about time than space. Remarkably, the picture has not been Photoshopped: it's simply a different way of looking at the world. If Doctor Who had a camera, he might take shots like this. And as it happens, the title sequence for the BBC show in the 1970s was …

Regulars

Features

The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age

Earth

The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age

Just 20,000 years ago, ice ruled the planet. So why did it relax its grip? Finally, it looks like the answers are in

Features

Life

Of lice and men: A very intimate history

Features

Life

Does your biology influence your vote?

Features

Technology

Artificial intelligence: Early ambitions

Features

Technology

Artificial intelligence: Everyday AI

Features

Artificial intelligence: A new future

Features

Artificial intelligence: The coming superintelligence

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.

Physics

Exploding the myths about the Higgs

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

CultureLab

Fighting TB, the unforgiving enemy

CultureLab

A whistle-stop tour through science history

CultureLab

Parcelling up nature in One Cubic Foot

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 1722

Double Latin Joe has a set of 25 cards, one side red and one side green. He has written one of the numbers 1 to 5 on each side of each card such that no two cards are identical. He asked Penny to arrange the cards in a 5-by-5 square, so that, red side up …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: Chocolate wins Nobel prizes

Feedback: Chocolate wins Nobel prizes

Chocolate wins Nobel prizes IS CHOCOLATE the key to cognitive success? Curious about the much-heralded benefits of flavonoids, found in chocolate as well as wine, Franz Messerli of St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York collected data on average chocolate consumption in various countries and compared it to those countries' per-capita share of last year's Nobel …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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