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16 February 2013

Issue 2904

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Editor's picks

Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

Life

Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

Features
A shocking cure: Plug in for the ultimate recharge

Technology

A shocking cure: Plug in for the ultimate recharge

Features
How was Earth's life kindled under a cold sun?

Earth

How was Earth's life kindled under a cold sun?

Features
Flushed with success: Human manure's fertile future

Earth

Flushed with success: Human manure's fertile future

Features

Table of contents

News

Widespread high-tech doping blights Australian sport

Health

Widespread high-tech doping blights Australian sport

In a country of sports fanatics, pressure to excel can mean pushing the boundaries every which way Aussie rules need a rethink. Scientists and clinicians are in the crosshairs of Australia's top crime fighters as the sports-mad country tries to confront widespread doping. After a year-long investigation, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) has just released …

News

Life

Meet our last common mammalian ancestor

News

Life

Zoologger: 'It's a boy!' Monkey midwife delivers baby

News

Health

Liver cancer survival time tripled by virus

News

Physics

Picasso created masterworks with house paint

News

Earth

Arctic sunshine cranks up threat from greenhouse gases

News

Technology

Trading places with us makes robots better teammates

News

Earth

Wind power is now cheaper than coal in some countries

News

Technology

Algorithm learns how to revive lost languages

News

Space

Curiosity's first drilling hints at Martian mining

News

Technology

Suspicious quake gives away North Korea's third nuke

News

Health

Gene therapy cures diabetic dogs

News

Life

Plants listen more closely to kin than strangers

News

Health

US should vaccinate poultry to stop killer salmonella

News

Earth

Taxpayers' money keeps Japan's whaling fleet afloat

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

DNA tests can prevent the next horsemeat scandal

News

Earth

Water wars loom as the US runs dry

News

Space

Runaway stars to fill in the blanks in Milky Way map

News

Life

Bacteria boost fixes symptoms of autism in mice

News

Life

False memories prime immune system for future attacks

News

Designer glasses correct red-green colour blindness

News

Technology

The computer that never crashes

News

Life

Tongue-tingling interface lets you taste data

News

Technology

Fake pointers on your screen foil 'shoulder surfers'

News

Space

Asteroid to give Earth a record close shave on Friday

News

Physics

Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits

News

Life

Comet rain took life's ingredients to Jupiter's moons

News

Physics

Harness vast power of quantum computers… for sums

News

Opinion

Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?

Earth

Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?

Cumbria's decision to veto an underground repository for the UK shows how hard it is to find a long-term solution

Opinion

Space

We need to rethink how we name exoplanets

Opinion

Physics

Into the impossible with a father of string theory

Opinion

Earth

Horsemeat scandal should make us rethink how we eat

Opinion

Technology

Are friendlier robots our teammates – or our rivals?

Opinion

Analysis

Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya

Technology

Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya

Using derelict TV frequencies, old-fashioned antennas and solar power, Microsoft is trialling a pioneering form of broadband technology in Africa

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

World of life's jewelled beauty in new museum shrine

See more: Click here to see an illustrated version of this article YOU might think that a museum displaying 2000 new exhibits would need to build a whole extra wing. But the latest additions to London's Grant Museum of Zoology all fit into a space the size of a large wardrobe: they are vintage glass …

Regulars

Features

Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

Life

Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links

Technology is taking the guesswork out of finding evolution's turning points, from the first fish with legs to our own recent forebears

Features

Technology

A shocking cure: Plug in for the ultimate recharge

Features

Earth

How was Earth's life kindled under a cold sun?

Features

Earth

Flushed with success: Human manure's fertile future

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.

Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind

Read more: Click here to read an illustrated version of this story An exhibition of ice-age art at London's British Museum shows astonishing and enigmatic creativity Ice Age Art: Arrival of the modern mind runs at the British Museum, London, until 26 May THE WORLD'S oldest surviving portrait; the oldest known ceramic figure; the earliest …

CultureLab

More

Let's stick together: How couples can go the distance

Let's stick together: How couples can go the distance

Falling in love may be easy, but it can be difficult for scientist couples to land jobs in the same place. There are ways to boost your chances, though

Careers

Enigma Number 1736

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: The AppleWorld beyond infinity

Feedback: The AppleWorld beyond infinity

Caption The AppleWorld beyond infinity LIKE most 5-year-olds, Matt Tapsell's son Ethan has an inquisitive and questioning mind. Recently he has wanted to know what the biggest number in the world is. Matt explained that there is no such thing: numbers can continue to get bigger and bigger, never reaching what is called "infinity". Unsurprisingly …

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