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13 April 2013

Issue 2912

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Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

Earth

Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

Features
Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned

Health

Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned

Features
Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

Technology

Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

Features
How flower power paved the way for our evolution

Life

How flower power paved the way for our evolution

Features

Table of contents

News

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.

Life

Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat move

brightcove.createExperiences(); Video: Human moves rat tail using thoughts alone Telepathic control of another person's body is a small step closer. By linking the technologies of two brain/computer interfaces, human volunteers were able to trigger movement in a rat's tail using their minds. Recently, researchers linked the brains of two rats so that they worked together …

News

Health

What we exhale is unique to us – our 'breathprint'

News

Space

Astrophile: Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts

News

Health

Red meat boosts gut bugs that raise heart disease risk

News

Physics

Little ripples make syrup stringy

News

Technology

Virtual traveller: Beam a live, 3D you into the world

News

Earth

Nervy flyers be warned: warming will boost turbulence

News

Life

Woman WLTM tall, broad man. Big penis preferred

News

Earth

Sea urchins evolving to cope with ocean acidification

News

Space

NASA's next exoplanet hunter to launch in 2017

News

Technology

What can North Korean missiles hit? Can we stop them?

News

Space

Obama will reveal $100-million plan to seize asteroid

News

Life

Female great whites reveal long-range mating secrets

News

Health

US women can get morning-after pill over the counter

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Cost of cuts: Austerity's toxic genetic legacy

News

Space

Going underground in search of dark matter strikes

News

Life

Stone tools helped shape human hands

News

Life

Transparent brains make neuroscience clearer

News

Life

Baby dinos pumped their muscles inside the egg

News

Technology

Online juries help curb bad gamer behaviour

News

Technology

Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles

News

Technology

Wikipedia can help give news junkies their fix

News

Earth

Republican voters want action on climate change

News

Space

Saturn's rings leave ghostly imprint on atmosphere

News

Health

China bird flu may be two mutations from a pandemic

News

Space

Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way

News

Opinion

Satellites could be targeted to stop cyberattacks

Technology

Satellites could be targeted to stop cyberattacks

"If a cyber operation causes significant damage you have the right to defend yourself with military force" Michael Schmitt , lead author of a new NATO manual, reveals how international law applies to cyberattacks and when an armed response is legitimate The internet is 30 years old. Why has it taken so long to examine …

Opinion

Health

The hidden costs of austerity

Opinion

Margaret Thatcher's legacy in British science

Opinion

Technology

We must wake up to the threats of new chemical weapons

Opinion

Technology

Use the internet to defuse gang culture

Opinion

Analysis

Map of the internet could make it stronger

Technology

Map of the internet could make it stronger

The most comprehensive maps yet of the the internet's infrastructure could help shore it up against disasters and sabotage

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.

Orange-lipped teenager relaxes after clay lick

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science MUCH of what we know about bonobos comes from observing animals in captivity. Famously characterised as peaceable and sex-loving, a darker and more complex picture emerges from studies in the wild . …

Regulars

Features

Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

Earth

Smart heat nets fire the next energy revolution

Waste heat costs us billions and messes with our climate – now there's a grand plan to round it up and put it to work

Features

Health

Mystery cancer: Inside the villages of the damned

Features

Technology

Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis

Features

Life

How flower power paved the way for our evolution

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 1744

Clive's number In a new design of cellphone, each of the number keys 1 to 9 is associated with two or three letters of the alphabet. Predictive text software chooses letters for you as you type. The letters are not in the usual alphabetic order and there are no letters on the zero button. The …

Regulars

Time to get tough on the physiological causes of crime

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback: Conspiranoid swapshop

Environment

Feedback: Conspiranoid swapshop

Conspiranoid swapshop CONSPIRACY theories and delusional systems, Feedback has long observed, are as prone to fashion as are... clothes. We recall receiving, back in the days when we started out in journalism, an inch-thick wodge of mostly illegible 10th-generation photocopies purporting to show that Marilyn Monroe had been assassinated by gangsters working for the CIA …

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Regulars

Letters

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