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9 March 2013

Issue 2907

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Editor's picks

The curious lives of the people who feel no fear

Life

The curious lives of the people who feel no fear

Features
That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library

Technology

That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library

Features
Monster munch: How did black holes get vast so fast?

Space

Monster munch: How did black holes get vast so fast?

Features
Glow planes: Plasmas take the drag out of air travel

Technology

Glow planes: Plasmas take the drag out of air travel

Features

Table of contents

News

First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power

Life

First mind-reading implant gives rats telepathic power

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Watch a pair of rats communicate by mind-reading I do not think, I am thought The world's first brain-to-brain connection has given rats the power to communicate by thought alone. "Many people thought it could never happen," says Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Although monkeys have been able to …

News

Space

Dark matter rival boosted by dwarf galaxies

News

Space

Mystery ring of radiation briefly encircled Earth

News

Life

Zoologger: The only virus with an immune system

News

Life

'Good' and 'bad' skin bugs dictate who gets spots

News

Physics

First fluid knots created in the lab

News

Health

HIV baby 'cured' with triple blast of drugs

News

Health

Consciousness signature warns of awareness during surgery

News

Earth

Globetrotting Sahara sand takes rain to California

News

US braces for pain as 'sequester' takes its toll

News

Space

Naked-eye comet offers glimpse of solar system's edge

News

Space

SpaceX glitch may be deemed secret under US arms laws

News

Health

UK is 'sick man of Europe' – and getting worse

News

Space

Solve four big problems to get people to Mars by 2018

News

Earth

Trafficking now the greatest threat to wild apes

News

Technology

Cancer risk lower than feared for Fukushima locals

News

Earth

Keystone pipeline is greenest option for tar sands

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Salty food exacerbates multiple sclerosis in mice

News

Earth

Fuel of the future: How fiery ice could power Asia

News

Life

Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf

News

Life

Gang of chimpanzees kills their alpha male

News

Super-bright supernova hints at dark lens

News

Earth

Reap the whirlwind for cheap renewable power

News

Technology

Send a text message to charge your cellphone

News

Technology

Google Glass app identifies you by your fashion sense

News

Technology

Stomach-twisting fuel storage for gas-powered cars

News

Opinion

Time to forget global tipping points

Earth

Time to forget global tipping points

The idea that Earth is approaching a point of no return is probably untrue and almost certainly unhelpful

Opinion

Health

To wipe out leprosy, we have to find it

Opinion

Health

Hours after death, we can still bring people back

Opinion

Earth

The pall of Fukushima overshadows our energy future

Opinion

Space

Don't let US knee-jerk secrecy slow down space flight

Opinion

Technology

Are we in the Metamaterial Age?

Opinion

Analysis

China's next-generation internet is a world-beater

Technology

China's next-generation internet is a world-beater

The net's new tiger, China, is creating a faster, more secure system that is way ahead of the West

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

Living on the edge of the Snake

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science THE ordered lines of Jerome, Idaho (population: 10,000) start to disintegrate as you approach those parts of town that teeter on the edge of the Snake river canyon. Here the homes are …

Regulars

Features

The curious lives of the people who feel no fear

Life

The curious lives of the people who feel no fear

Some people really are not scared of anything. Understanding why reveals the way the rest of us process terror

Features

Technology

That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library

Features

Space

Monster munch: How did black holes get vast so fast?

Features

Technology

Glow planes: Plasmas take the drag out of air travel

Features

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 1739

Dodecagarden In our local park the "Dodecagarden" is fenced in by 12 straight fences: the shortest is 1 metre long and the longest is less than 100 metres long. The 12 corners of the garden all lie on a circle whose radius is a whole number of metres, and the 12 angles made at the …

Regulars

Life

The search for ET is a detective story without a body

Books & Arts

Win a Kindle Fire HD in our sci-fi theme competition

Regulars

Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?

Books & Arts

It took more than inspiration to spawn Frankenstein

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback: Right is wrong

Feedback: Right is wrong

Right is wrong PARANOID observation of the week comes to us from Russia, courtesy of Jeff Clarke, who uncovered it at the news site RT.com . Operating on the principle that readers' comments on news events can be more interesting than the coverage of the news itself, Jeff turned to what RT's readers had to …

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Letters

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