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5 January 2013

Issue 2898

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Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy

Earth

Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy

Features
Coffee to go: Is this the end of our favourite drink?

Earth

Coffee to go: Is this the end of our favourite drink?

Features
Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens

Physics

Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens

Features
Epigenetics: Discovery

Epigenetics: Discovery

Features
Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon

Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon

Features
Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects

Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects

Features
Epigenetics: What's left to find out

Epigenetics: What's left to find out

Features

Table of contents

News

Van-sized space rock is a cosmic oddball

Life

Van-sized space rock is a cosmic oddball

Looking fresh despite taking thousands of years to arrive The shattered remains of a high-profile space rock are oddly low in organic materials, the raw ingredients for life. The discovery adds a slight wrinkle to the theory that early Earth was seeded with organics by meteorite impacts. In April a van-sized meteor was seen streaking …

News

Physics

Victorian counting device gets speedy quantum makeover

News

Health

Avian flu virus learns to fly without wings

News

Life

Giant tooth hints at truly monumental dinosaur

News

Space

Astrophile: Black hole exposed as a dwarf in disguise

News

Health

Cadaver stem cells offer new hope of life after death

News

Earth

Approval for gene-modified salmon spawns controversy

News

Earth

Superstorm lessons for adapting to climate change

News

Earth

Strong jet stream super-charged US Christmas storms

News

Earth

The world to burn as much coal as oil by 2017

News

Earth

Golden rice trial caught up in ethical tangle

News

Environment

60 Seconds

News

Space

Humble coin toss thrust to heart of multiverse debate

News

Life

Earthworms roped into making quantum dots

News

Life

Take a peek inside the brain's filing cabinet

News

Earth

Ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming fast

News

Haloes are real – what colour is yours?

News

Technology

Mapping malware's genome to fight future attacks

News

Earth

Polar tech uncovers how frozen regions are changing

News

Technology

AI 'lifeguard' could save young swimmers from drowning

News

Technology

LHC to stir up hot particle soup before 2013 shut down

News

Space

NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit

News

Opinion

How to reduce the toll from US gun violence

Humans

How to reduce the toll from US gun violence

In the wake of last week's massacre at a school in Connecticut, it is time to look to the data for what works in reducing gun violence, says Peter Aldhous

Opinion

Health

Physics not biology may be key to beating cancer

Opinion

Earth

The jolt we need to take on climate change

Opinion

Earth

Time to nail the number one problem of green energy

Opinion

Technology

Unmasking the cyber saboteurs, whoever they are

Opinion

Humans

West vs Asia education rankings are misleading

Opinion

Technology

Tony Fadell: From iPhones to sexing up thermostats

Opinion

Analysis

New positioning technology could compete with GPS

Technology

New positioning technology could compete with GPS

A ground-based system that uses much stronger signals than GPS can pinpoint your location in cities and indoors

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.

Chad's 'mountains of hunger' as rendered by Turner

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science IT LOOKS like brushstrokes – it could almost be a Turner – but this is actually nature at its most dramatic. This snapshot from the European Space Agency's MERIS satellite shows the …

Regulars

Features

Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy

Earth

Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy

If renewable energy is to succeed, we need to find a better way to store it. Liquid air batteries could be the answer

Features

Earth

Coffee to go: Is this the end of our favourite drink?

Features

Physics

Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens

Features

Epigenetics: Discovery

Features

Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon

Features

Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects

Features

Epigenetics: What's left to find out

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

The science of Sherlock Holmes

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

CultureLab

Space

Your body's insights into life and cosmos

CultureLab

Books for 2013 – a bibliophile's guide

CultureLab

Two world-shaping visionaries who missed their targets

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 1730

Prime position The grid shown on the right is a cross-figure puzzle with one digit given as a starting point. All 11 answers are prime numbers, none of them starts with a zero, and adding the individual figures in each column gives the same sum. What are the two numbers in the shaded regions of …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: Return of nominative determinism

Feedback: Return of nominative determinism

The last nominative determinism stories, salads of gizzards and his chestnuts, Australian graduates in outer space, and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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