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24 May 2014

Issue 2970

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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.

Earth

Let them eat crickets: Insects could be the new potato

Opinion
Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Life

Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Features
Friendship: Friends with many benefits

Life

Friendship: Friends with many benefits

Features
Friendship FAQ: The 'just friends' dilemma, and more

Life

Friendship FAQ: The 'just friends' dilemma, and more

Features
Friendship: Friends in high-tech places

Life

Friendship: Friends in high-tech places

Features
Into the methane depths of Kraken, Titan's strange sea

Space

Into the methane depths of Kraken, Titan's strange sea

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.

Life

Big pharma market forces won't save us from superbugs

Antibiotics don't make much money but we desperately need new ones. That means transforming pharma companies into public goods producers

Opinion

Earth

Let them eat crickets: Insects could be the new potato

Opinion

News

Separated at birth, but split brains build new bridges

Health

Separated at birth, but split brains build new bridges

This 3D image shows the brain of a person born without a corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres. A neuronal bundle (in yellow) has formed to connect the right brain (with blue section) to the left brain (with red section), enabling the two sides of the brain to communicate Children born with split brains – …

News

Space

There's a lightning strike hike in strong solar wind

News

Health

Immune-boosting drug shows promise against lung cancer

News

Life

Flooded cave hides Naia, a 13,000-year-old American

News

Health

'Heavy' mice may reveal why soft tissues turn to bone

News

Health

Mindscapes: The woman who gets lost in her own home

News

Life

North American land birds migrate along three flyways

News

Earth

Pressure mounts to save Africa's Eden from drillers

News

Technology

Rescue robots could help in next Turkish mine disaster

News

Technology

Astronomer royal: Why we need a new Longitude prize

News

Technology

Wireless energy powers pacemaker in live rabbit

News

Earth

Balkan flood zones may face even more rain next week

News

Technology

Indian election win threatens biggest biometrics bank

News

Health

Fans' World Cup trip could be dampened by dengue

News

Space

Skinny wormholes could send messages through time

News

Earth

US bees die a bit less but still need feeding up

News

Life

Superbug crisis: Global push to save antibiotics begins

News

Space

Astronaut sows first fresh veg in NASA space 'garden'

News

Earth

China and Vietnam in new spat over oil-rich waters

News

Earth

60 Seconds

News

Life

Earth's backup: Sending religious texts to the moon

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Say cheers to music with a Bitcoin micro-tip

News

Life

Zoologger: Larval hunter uses bifocals to catch prey

News

Space

Dead spacecraft helps map Bermuda Triangle of space

News

Health

At risk of HIV? Pop a pill for protection, says CDC

News

Space

NASA lets enthusiasts reboot zombie 1970s spacecraft

News

Technology

ButtonMasher: Storytelling beats action in new games

News

Technology

Tweets map the world's emotional response in real-time

News

Earth

Six legs tasty: First edible insect farm opens in US

News

Opinion

Reconstructing physics: The universe is information

Physics

Reconstructing physics: The universe is information

Two leading quantum physicists say information is key to understanding the universe. Their constructor theory puts it centre stage

Opinion

Earth

Dredge-and-dump will damage the Great Barrier Reef

Opinion

Aperture

Ethiopia's blue volcano burns deadly sulphuric gas

Earth

Ethiopia's blue volcano burns deadly sulphuric gas

(Image: Olivier Grunewald) IT'S a volcano , but not as we know it. This cerulean eruption takes place in the Danakil Depression, a low-lying plain in Ethiopia. The volcano's lava is the usual orange-red – the blue comes from flames produced when escaping sulphuric gases burn. French photographer Olivier Grunewald creates such images without using …

Regulars

Features

Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Life

Friendship: Do animals have friends, too?

Whether you're a human or a horse, it takes a lot of brainpower to support a complex social group – and that puts a limit on how many friends we can have

Features

Life

Friendship: Friends with many benefits

Features

Life

Friendship FAQ: The 'just friends' dilemma, and more

Features

Life

Friendship: Friends in high-tech places

Features

Space

Into the methane depths of Kraken, Titan's strange sea

Features

Culturelab

How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

Life

How moral fundamentalism becomes a scientific sin

Cognitive science shows that moral reasoning is often subconscious (Image: Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos) We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans – and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios WHAT an enticing title: Morality for Humans . In three simple words, it promises …

CultureLab

Life

Why antibiotics are WMDs to our bodies' microbes

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Primary school puzzler

Feedback: Primary school puzzler

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Primary school puzzler THE Welsh government recently circulated a parents' and carers' guide to literacy and numeracy tests in the country's schools. Feedback now seeks help with our homework, which is to interpret a graph from the guide. It plots …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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