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23 November 2013

Issue 2944

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Editor's picks

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

Life

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

Features
My astronaut diary: A space tourist's long countdown

Space

My astronaut diary: A space tourist's long countdown

Features
The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero

Health

The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero

Features
Don't abandon ship! How to salvage a mega-vessel

Earth

Don't abandon ship! How to salvage a mega-vessel

Features

Table of contents

News

All in the mind: hone movement skills just by thinking

Life

All in the mind: hone movement skills just by thinking

Think your way to better playing No practice required. Wouldn't it be great if you could get better at playing sport or hone your piano skills simply by thinking about it? A small pilot study suggests that it might be possible. In the last few years, brain training using computer games that provide neurofeedback – …

News

Life

Wolves turned into dogs by European hunter-gatherers

News

Technology

Uncool quantum state survives for record 40 minutes

News

Life

Pregnant mother's stress affects baby's gut and brain

News

Life

Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations

News

Earth

Seething volcano buried under Antarctica's ice

News

Health

Vastly diluted bleach may have protective effect on skin

News

Technology

Warm your blood to track dangerous oozes

News

Space

NASA scout blasts off for Mars to search for lost air

News

Earth

UN negotiators ditch climate-friendly agriculture plan

News

Earth

Climate change's influence on tornadoes is a mixed bag

News

Space

Jolly green comet blazes a trail towards sun

News

Earth

Australia cementing status as climate bad-boy

News

Bitcoin value smashes records in China and US

News

Life

Eased one-child policy won't lead to more girls – yet

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Cancer meets its nemesis in reprogrammed blood cells

News

Physics

Slaying dragon-kings could prevent financial crashes

News

Early life built Earth's continents

News

Neanderthal virus DNA spotted hiding in modern humans

News

Losing their dino tail limited size of flightless birds

News

Souped-up bacteria clears hookworm from hamster guts

News

Technology

Robotutor marks the homework of a class of thousands

News

Technology

Electrode recreates all four tastes on your tongue

News

Technology

Music helps you frame the perfect smartphone snap

News

Technology

Text messages tell drivers when there's a jam ahead

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Cockpit computers are sapping pilots' ability to fly

News

Life

Oldest human genome reveals roots of first Americans

News

Opinion

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.

Health

Beating cancer by blocking off its escape routes

Finally, we are in a winning position in the war against cancer thanks to new treatments based on modified immune cells

Opinion

Life

Don't bury Europe's remarkable prehistoric culture

Opinion

Life

Taming the beasts of the global economy

Opinion

Earth

Admit it: we can't measure our ecological footprint

Opinion

Technology

My quantum algorithm won't break the internet… yet

Opinion

Life

Darwinian business needn't be red in tooth and claw

Opinion

Analysis

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.

Technology

Throw off the spooks by disguising your web traffic

The NSA's massive dragnet could be ripped apart by tools that make it impossible to know what you are doing on your computer

News

Aperture

Nose to beak with a Christian hero heavyweight champ

Life

Nose to beak with a Christian hero heavyweight champ

(Image: David Pattyn/naturepl.com) Stare into the eyes of a Christian icon. This formidable creature is the largest living animal able to fly. The average weight of a Dalmatian pelican ( Pelecanus crispus ) is 11.5 kilograms, and its wingspan reaches an albatross-beating 3.5 metres. That sort of bulk requires a lot of fuel, and the …

Regulars

Features

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

Life

Art's early dawn: When intelligence really began

All over the world, we’re finding art tens of thousands of years older than it should be. What awoke our creative minds so early?

Features

Space

My astronaut diary: A space tourist's long countdown

Features

Health

The germ detectives: Tracking the DNA to patient zero

Features

Earth

Don't abandon ship! How to salvage a mega-vessel

Features

Culturelab

All present: Our pick of the best science gifts

All present: Our pick of the best science gifts

When it comes to giving gifts, our selection shows how science delivers the beautiful as well as the technical Enter our competition: For the chance to win your own Baby Yamanaka fungal stool go to bit.ly/mushroomstool GPawS "cat nav" £49.95, g-paws.com Ever wondered where your cat goes at night? Find out with the first GPS …

CultureLab

Gift guide: Our pick of the best science books

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Enigma Number 1776

Enigma Number 1776

Elevenses I have written down three 3-figure numbers which between them use nine different digits. Among these numbers there is: at least one that is divisible by 2; at least one that is divisible by 3; at least one that is divisible by 4; at least one that is divisible by 5; at least one …

Regulars

Grow your own organs as a tissue engineer

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Light of whose life?

Feedback: Light of whose life?

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Light of whose life? POWER your home "24 hrs a day with green energy generated by your solar system," says the website aweenergy.com , plugging the "revolutionary product" Midnight Sun. It goes on to say that users can still benefit …

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