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17 November 2012

Issue 2891

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Climate downgrade: Arctic warming

Earth

Climate downgrade: Arctic warming

Features
Climate downgrade: Extreme weather

Earth

Climate downgrade: Extreme weather

Features
Climate downgrade: Food production hit

Earth

Climate downgrade: Food production hit

Features
Climate downgrade: Sea level rise

Earth

Climate downgrade: Sea level rise

Features
Climate downgrade: Planetary feedbacks

Earth

Climate downgrade: Planetary feedbacks

Features
Climate downgrade: Human emissions

Earth

Climate downgrade: Human emissions

Features
Climate downgrade: Heat stress

Earth

Climate downgrade: Heat stress

Features
Bloodletting: Return of a radical remedy

Health

Bloodletting: Return of a radical remedy

Features
Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom's heart

Space

Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom's heart

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Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting

Health

Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting

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News

Science may benefit from election despite fiscal cliff

Science may benefit from election despite fiscal cliff

Is science on the way up? As the dust settles on bitterly contested US elections, can the nation's political leaders now move past the gridlock that has plagued the government since the Congressional elections of 2010? If not, a train wreck looms for science and the wider economy, in the form of the "fiscal cliff" …

News

Technology

Smartphone gives bikes an automatic gearbox

News

Physics

It moves! Lab-made blob can crawl

News

Life

Zoologger: The bird with a password-protected nest

News

Health

Batteries not required, just plug into ear cells

News

Earth

Threatened coral calls in the goby cavalry

News

Technology

Tiny engine runs on single hydrogen molecules

News

Technology

Rare particle's decay confounds hunt for new physics

News

Earth

Brazil aims to clone endangered animals

News

Life

Oxytocin changes partnered men's behaviour

News

Technology

American dream of oil independence on horizon

News

Life

Our brain can do unconscious mathematics

News

Earth

UK pins ash hopes on finding fungus-resistant trees

News

Space

Orbiting moon gives chilling clue to black hole heat

News

Health

Calls for Roche to release patient data on Tamiflu

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Cannabis legalisation launches living laboratory

News

Health

Mind-reading scan locates site of meaning in the brain

News

Earth

Link between global warming and drought questioned

News

Earth

Estimates for future global warming narrowed down

News

Physics

If you want to be president, hire geeks not pundits

News

Health

Cancer's recruitment drive of healthy cells targeted

News

DNA tentacles identify recurring leukaemia

News

Technology

Computers identify what makes abstract art move us

News

Technology

Knuckles and nails get invite to the touchscreen party

News

Life

Twitter shows language evolves in cities

News

Space

Hovering moon base may be on NASA's horizon

News

Opinion

California genetic food vote is no victory for science

Earth

California genetic food vote is no victory for science

Researchers hailing the Californian vote against proposals for mandatory labelling of genetically modified food are missing the bigger picture

Opinion

Fraud fighter: 'Faked research is endemic in China'

Opinion

Antifragile: How to make an unstable world strong

Opinion

Earth

Obama should fulfil his 2008 climate promises

Opinion

Life

Experimenting with drugs in the US

Opinion

Analysis

Tunable light bulbs could help you sleep better

Technology

Tunable light bulbs could help you sleep better

A new generation of colour-changing LED light bulbs may help you relax, concentrate, or even improve your sleep habits

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.

Seagull's-eye view of world's biggest wind turbine

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science WHY do people say "don't look down"? Just imagine what you would be missing if the photographer had had similar qualms. The ants on the ground are working on a Siemens SWT-6.0-154 …

Regulars

Features

Climate downgrade: Arctic warming

Earth

Climate downgrade: Arctic warming

The thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was not expected to melt until the end of the century. Now it looks like summer ice could be gone in a decade or two

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Extreme weather

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Food production hit

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Sea level rise

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Planetary feedbacks

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Human emissions

Features

Earth

Climate downgrade: Heat stress

Features

Health

Bloodletting: Return of a radical remedy

Features

Space

Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom's heart

Features

Health

Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting

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.

Technology

Oppenheimer: the full story of a complex character

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

CultureLab

Who benefits from big biology projects?

CultureLab

Environment

Embracing shale gas may help cut emissions

CultureLab

The engineer who defeated the wind

CultureLab

Extinct birds come alive in a cartoonist's imagination

CultureLab

More

Spirit of collaboration

Spirit of collaboration

University partnerships with industry are on the rise and it's no longer a simple exchange of dollars for research

Careers

Enigma Number 1724

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: How roundabouts combat global warming

Feedback: How roundabouts combat global warming

How roundabouts combat global warming MANY and varied are the methods proposed for cutting carbon emissions. P. Graham Mortyn writes in the journal Environmental Science and Technology ( vol 46, p 6448 ): "As a native Californian with approximately 10 years of European living and driving experience, I write on that personal favorite of British …

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