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5 April 2014

Issue 2963

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Editor's picks

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

Time for Japan to get real over whale research

Opinion
Who really decoded Down's syndrome?

Health

Who really decoded Down's syndrome?

Features
Where am I? Voyager on the solar system's frontier

Space

Where am I? Voyager on the solar system's frontier

Features
Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world

Life

Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

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.

Earth

Front-line climate action should inspire us all

People whose livelihoods are affected by climate change have already started to act, and the rest of the world doesn’t have long to decide what to do

Opinion

Sexism will dog science until it gives women their due

Opinion

Life

Time for Japan to get real over whale research

Opinion

News

Billiard table chaos wins $1 million maths prize

Physics

Billiard table chaos wins $1 million maths prize

Yakov Sinai gets up very early Cutting a hole in the pool table is unlikely to win you many fans down at your local bar, but doing the mathematical equivalent has just led to a million dollar prize. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo announced today that it has awarded Yakov Sinai …

News

Technology

Vanishing mirror turns into a window as you spin it

News

Life

Designer chromosomes could turn cells into factories

News

Health

Public smoking bans lead to healthier kids and births

News

Technology

Five ways to make sure we never lose a plane again

News

Life

Try some pig pheromone to stop unruly dogs barking

News

Life

Zoologger: Sex in the city no lure for urban owls

News

Health

Obesity linked to our ability to digest carbohydrates

News

Life

Battle-hardened oyster may help toughen combat shields

News

Earth

World must adapt to unknown climate future, says IPCC

News

Life

Japan ordered to stop Antarctic 'scientific' whaling

News

Life

Born to chat: Humans may have innate language instinct

News

Life

Face map of mixed feelings could help AIs understand us

News

Life

Yum, Lego… Human babies born to move hands to mouth

News

Health

Five a day is not enough fruit and veg for best health

News

Life

Dino-killing asteroid cleared way for modern reef fish

News

Health

Mammogram risks raise doubts about blanket screening

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Early climate adapters show warming world how to cope

News

Technology

Coal fuelled China long before industrial revolution

News

Space

Radioactive waste used to peek inside a star explosion

News

Health

Reboot the immune system to avoid transplant rejection

News

Life

Shroud of Turin depicts Y-shaped crucifixion

News

Life

First in-depth mammal brain map to reveal neural blips

News

Technology

Google Glass hackathon spawns bizarre no-touch apps

News

Technology

Clothes with hidden sensors act as an always-on doctor

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Permanent tattoos inked by hacked 3D printer

News

Space

Mini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts

News

Space

Private moon-landing hopeful dodges dangers in desert

News

Opinion

Biology doesn't justify gender divide for toys

Life

Biology doesn't justify gender divide for toys

There is concern at the increasing segregation of toys and books for boys and girls. Is there any scientific justification, asks the author of Delusions of Gender

Opinion

Health

Don't let vaping, obesity and boozing become norms

Opinion

Life

Hive minds: Time to drop the fiction of individuality

Opinion

Aperture

Sun traces giant figures-of-eight in the sky

Space

Sun traces giant figures-of-eight in the sky

(Image: Maciej Zapiór and Lukasz Fajfrowski/ analemma.pl ) THIS isn't a photo of a laser show. If you stood on a balcony and watched the sky over Wrocław, Poland, where this took place, you wouldn't spot these strange figure-of-eight patterns. To see them, you need a pinhole camera, rigged to make a year-long time-lapse photo …

Regulars

Features

Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world

Life

Denisovans: The lost humans who shared our world

The others (Image: Simon Pemberton) They lived on the planet with us for most of our history, yet until six years ago we didn't know they existed. Meet the species rewriting human evolution THERE was very little to go on – just the tiniest fragment of a finger bone. What's more, it was clear that …

Features

Space

Where am I? Voyager on the solar system's frontier

Features

Health

Who really decoded Down's syndrome?

Features

Culturelab

Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

Mind

Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

This medieval "Tree of Life" works as a mnemonic memory aid (Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel Lima's sumptuous The Book of Trees explores the tree diagram's appeal for showing information IN THE early 1990s, 14 computer scientists at the University of Maryland …

CultureLab

Life

Bite-sized chunks of brain science don't quite satisfy

CultureLab

More

Game developers use entertainment to boost cancer therapy

Game developers use entertainment to boost cancer therapy

Merging the worlds of cancer care and software development is more than just fun and games

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: The forgotten dolls of science

Feedback: The forgotten dolls of science

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Forgotten dolls of science COLLEAGUES were recently racking their brains to remember the names of women whose contribution to science has been forgotten – as has happened to Marthe Gautier (see " Who really decoded Down's syndrome? "). Conversation turned …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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