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6 July 2013

Issue 2924

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Tick tick boom, the Earth spits out a moon

Space

Tick tick boom, the Earth spits out a moon

Features
Bug Mac and flies: Are insects really food's future?

Earth

Bug Mac and flies: Are insects really food's future?

Features
Nano magic: The power of powder to save energy

Technology

Nano magic: The power of powder to save energy

Features
Quantum information: The promise

Technology

Quantum information: The promise

Features
Quantum information: Building a quantum computer

Technology

Quantum information: Building a quantum computer

Features
Quantum information: Killer apps

Technology

Quantum information: Killer apps

Features
Quantum information: Are we nearly there yet?

Technology

Quantum information: Are we nearly there yet?

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

Echoes in the brain open a window on yesterday

Toss a stone into a pool and it leaves ripples long after it sinks. Ideas and experiences have a similar affect on our brains: short bouts of intense neural activity leave ripples in the brain's background activity that can still be detected 24 hours later. The finding effectively opens a window into a person's recent …

News

Life

Zoologger: Invasion of the sleepy raccoon dogs

News

Health

Global crackdown seizes fake drugs worth $41 million

News

Earth

Tohoku megaquake shows big tremors make volcanoes sink

News

Life

Quantum mechanics enables 'impossible' space chemistry

News

Technology

Windows aims to open up 3D printing to the masses

News

Technology

Precision herbicide drones launch strikes on weeds

News

Earth

World's only freshwater porpoise on brink of extinction

News

Physics

'Gorilla' phone glass caught shrinking in just days

News

Earth

Bomb-test fallout could catch illegal ivory traders

News

Earth

Briefing: Firefighters on the front lines of wildfires

News

Technology

Listen to the lasers to detect disease in blood cells

News

Space

Fireball rocket crash adds to Russia's space woes

News

Space

Vulcan not Pluto moon despite Star Trek actor's push

News

Life

Flowers have been at funerals for 13,000 years

News

Space

Two space telescopes close their eyes on the skies

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Rise of renewables starts climate-change fightback

News

Earth

Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life

News

Double good news from HIV front line

News

Software says Knox's DNA not on crime scene bra clasp

News

Technology

Skin-deep modelling holds key to natural digital faces

News

Technology

3D-printed dummy landmines teach subtle skills

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Earth

Tree-loving orang-utans hang out on the forest floor

News

Health

Wales votes yes for opt-out organ donation

News

Earth

Citizen cartographers fill the gaps in maps

News

Health

Mindscapes: First man to hear people before they speak

News

Opinion

Martyr myth: Inside the minds of suicide bombers

Life

Martyr myth: Inside the minds of suicide bombers

Portraying suicide bombers as psychologically normal is wrong and plays into the hands of their leaders, says criminal-justice researcher Adam Lankford

Opinion

Life

Does banning prostitution make women safer?

Opinion

Life

Physics goes social: How behaviour obeys quantum logic

Opinion

Life

There may already be aliens on Mars

Opinion

Life

Eating insects: Disgust is just the first hurdle

Opinion

Earth

No more excuses over switch to clean energy

Opinion

Aperture

In this echo-free room you can hear your heartbeat

Earth

In this echo-free room you can hear your heartbeat

(Images: Alastair Philip Wiper ) WELCOME to the weird world of blue cones. No, it's not a model of a surreal futuristic city, but a room vital to ensuring that satellites collect accurate environmental data. To enter, you go through what must be one of the strangest-looking doors on the planet (below). Inside, you can …

Regulars

Features

Tick tick boom, the Earth spits out a moon

Space

Tick tick boom, the Earth spits out a moon

Did a nuclear time bomb deep inside the young Earth tear the planet apart? The evidence could be staring down at us every night

Features

Earth

Bug Mac and flies: Are insects really food's future?

Features

Technology

Nano magic: The power of powder to save energy

Features

Technology

Quantum information: The promise

Features

Technology

Quantum information: Building a quantum computer

Features

Technology

Quantum information: Killer apps

Features

Technology

Quantum information: Are we nearly there yet?

Features

Culturelab

What do we fix first – environment or economy?

Earth

What do we fix first – environment or economy?

Dabaab refugee camp, Kenya, where Somalis fled to escape drought (Image: Zhao Yingquan/Xinhua/Gamma/Camer Press) A slew of books, ebooks, pamphlets and journals are tackling the crucial relationship between environmental crisis and financial meltdown IT IS one of the most pressing questions of our time: what is the relationship between financial and environmental meltdown? Are the …

CultureLab

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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 1756

Two triangles I have drawn two triangles. The lengths of their sides are six different single-digit integers. The triangles have one angle in common. What are the lengths of the sides of the two triangles? WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer opened on Wednesday 31 July. The Editor's …

Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: More consumption than a city

Feedback: More consumption than a city

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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Regulars

Letters

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