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24 November 2012

Issue 2892

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Our true dawn: Pinning down human origins

Life

Our true dawn: Pinning down human origins

Features
North Korea: What a terrible state to get into

Earth

North Korea: What a terrible state to get into

Features
Hive minds: Honeybee intelligence creates a buzz

Life

Hive minds: Honeybee intelligence creates a buzz

Features
Omniphobia: the stuffs that stick at nothing

Technology

Omniphobia: the stuffs that stick at nothing

Features

Table of contents

News

Astrophile: Lonely planet roams with stellar outcasts

Space

Astrophile: Lonely planet roams with stellar outcasts

Just drifting: artist's impression of CFBDSIR2149 Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Object: Gas giant planet Name: CFBDSIR2149 Location: The AB Doradus moving group of stars The giant planet doesn't even remember home. Once it was the largest in a system …

News

Life

First stone-tipped spear thrown earlier than thought

News

Space

Pumpkin pie craters on Mercury are solar system first

News

Life

'Ultrasonic' insect evolved tiny mammal-like ears

News

Earth

Cave stalactites yield best clues to sea-level rise

News

Earth

Blood cell disguise halts multiple sclerosis

News

Life

White smell: the olfactory equivalent of white noise

News

Health

Cut premature births, save $3 billion

News

Earth

Full steam ahead for California carbon trading

News

Technology

Iron Dome rocket smasher set to change Gaza conflict

News

Space

Mars is safe from radiation – but the trip there isn't

News

Earth

BP hit by largest criminal fine in US history

News

Earth

We are leaving emissions cuts too late

News

Private moon shots on the horizon

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Genes show how your lifestyle affects your health

News

Earth

Extreme recycling turns poo into food

News

Technology

Higgs boson is too saintly and supersymmetry too shy

News

Space

Dark energy hints hidden in cosmic voids

News

Earth

Climate change may supersize sweet potatoes

News

Earth

Reckless forest plants living on the edge

News

Life

Ray of light in the right location boosts motivation

News

Life

Papa pipefish's pregnancy good for young's immunity

News

Technology

Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers

News

Technology

Virtual economy looms as digital cash grows up

News

Technology

How metadata brought down CIA boss David Petraeus

News

Opinion

Abortion providers are motivated by conscience, too

Health

Abortion providers are motivated by conscience, too

Pro-lifers like to claim the moral high ground. But the tragic case of Savita Halappanavar, who died after allegedly being refused an abortion, highlights the ethical case for abortions, says obstetrician Lisa Harris

Opinion

Physics

What truly exists? Structure as a route to the real

Opinion

Environment

Methane leaks suggest fracking benefits exaggerated

Opinion

What's that in old money?

Opinion

Let them eat maggots

Opinion

How do you solve a problem like North Korea?

Opinion

Health

Fighting the flab means fighting makers of fatty foods

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 a gorilla in the midst

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science IN THE Central African Republic, a female western lowland gorilla runs through a cloud of butterflies. She capers, if a gorilla can be said to caper. The other gorillas in her group …

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Features

Our true dawn: Pinning down human origins

Life

Our true dawn: Pinning down human origins

The argument over when our lineage split from chimps is about to be settled, with colossal consequences for prehistory

Features

Earth

North Korea: What a terrible state to get into

Features

Life

Hive minds: Honeybee intelligence creates a buzz

Features

Technology

Omniphobia: the stuffs that stick at nothing

Features

Culturelab

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Holiday gifts: What to give the scientifically curious

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

CultureLab

Holiday gifts: Books to give by

CultureLab

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Enigma Number 1725

Square bashing I have in mind a list of consecutive positive integers. A second list of numbers is generated by squaring each of the numbers in my original list. The sum of the first 2500 of these squares is equal to the sum of the next 2499 in the list. What is the smallest number …

Regulars

Earth

Adventurous nature required

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Commas in breach of copyright

Feedback: Commas in breach of copyright

Commas in breach of copyright THE copyright statement that Isobel Clarke found at the bottom of a music review on www.wrightmusic.net ( bit.ly/CopyWright ) seemed so excessively inclusive that she sent it to Feedback with her comments. The statement reads: "This article or any part of it, however small, must not be copied, quoted, reproduced, …

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