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15 December 2012

Issue 2895

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Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

Life

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

Features
How an ancient Egyptian code unmasked a cannibal star

Life

How an ancient Egyptian code unmasked a cannibal star

Features
Fabricated future: The sceptic's guide to 3D printing

Technology

Fabricated future: The sceptic's guide to 3D printing

Features
Fetal healing: Curing congenital diseases in the womb

Health

Fetal healing: Curing congenital diseases in the womb

Features

Table of contents

News

Astrophile: A baby solar system with big ambitions

Space

Astrophile: A baby solar system with big ambitions

Aspirations of grandeur Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Object: Baby solar system Distance: 450 light years Swaddled in a cloud of dust and gas, the baby star shows a lot of potential. It is quietly sucking in matter from the …

News

Space

NASA's next Mars rover to launch in 2020

News

Life

Zoologger: The toughest eggs in the world

News

Life

Human eye proteins detect red beyond red

News

Space

Space bigwigs offer billion-dollar private moon trips

News

Life

Parasite makes mice fearless by hijacking immune cells

News

Technology

YouTube reorganises video with automated channels

News

Health

Lose weight without eating less – just cut down on fat

News

Technology

Syria's chemical weapons pose a grave dilemma

News

Health

We all carry hundreds of rogue mutations

News

Physics

Einstein was first to dream up dark energy

News

Health

New drug lifts hard-to-treat depression in hours

News

Earth

First results from James Cameron's trip to the abyss

News

Health

UK government urged to consider relaxing drug rules

News

Technology

'Robot ecosystem' in sight as apps get a cash boost

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Doha summit launches climate damage aid

News

Life

Search for aliens poses game theory dilemma

News

Life

Permian mass extinction triggered by humble microbe

News

Space

Mysterious star deaths are really mergers in disguise

News

Life

In search of the world's oldest cave etching

News

Life

Zebrafish made to grow pre-hands instead of fins

News

Life

Loneliest bug on Earth… has a friend

News

Technology

Laser drills could relight geothermal energy dreams

News

Technology

All-seeing headset gives you 360-degree vision

News

Technology

Touchpad steering wheel keeps eyes on the road

News

Space

Orbiting eye sees NASA rover's impact scars on Mars

News

Opinion

How human biology can prevent drug deaths

Health

How human biology can prevent drug deaths

Thousands of people die from adverse effects of medicines that have been tested on animals. There is a better way, say geneticist Kathy Archibald and pharmacologist Robert Coleman

Opinion

Space

'The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction'

Opinion

Life

The link between devaluing animals and discrimination

Opinion

Health

The pregnant promise of fetal medicine

Opinion

Earth

Another year wasted by climate negotiators

Opinion

Analysis

Target faulty brain circuits to treat mental illness

Health

Target faulty brain circuits to treat mental illness

Through a glass, darkly: what's normal anyway? IT HAS been more than a decade in the works, but finally we know the main changes that will be introduced next May, when the American Psychiatric Association publishes the next edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , known as DSM-5 . Those changes, …

News

Technology

Satellite upgrade should let planes slash emissions

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.

Environment

Megacity China: the ultimate in urban migration

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science NO, YOU haven't slipped into a dream within a dream within a dream. This megacity, which you'd be forgiven for thinking is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception , is …

Regulars

Features

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

Life

Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

When it comes to your moods, decisions and behaviour, the brain in your head is not the only one doing the thinking

Features

Life

How an ancient Egyptian code unmasked a cannibal star

Features

Technology

Fabricated future: The sceptic's guide to 3D printing

Features

Health

Fetal healing: Curing congenital diseases in the womb

Features

Culturelab

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Is the obesity epidemic caused by too much sugar?

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

CultureLab

The top 10 science books of 2012

CultureLab

Our deep relationship with water

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 1728

Problem tackling Joe was in his school's rugby team. While practising tackling, Joe remembers standing on the goal line 25 feet from his friend Ken, who was by the corner flag. When the master blew his whistle, Ken ran along the touchline and Joe had to try to tackle him. Ken runs at half a …

Regulars

Going the extra mile during your PhD

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Are wind turbines really fans?

Feedback: Are wind turbines really fans?

Are wind turbines really fans? WHY didn't we think of that? The only way we can do justice to a letter that John Gledhill forwards from the Leamington Courier newspaper is to reproduce it in full: "It is blindingly obvious and I am amazed that an 'expert' has not pointed this out. "Fact 1: Most …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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