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16 August 2014

Issue 2982

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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.

Health

Let's rush the Ebola drug out – and be ready next time

Opinion
Toilet to tap: Drinking water at the press of a flush

Earth

Toilet to tap: Drinking water at the press of a flush

Features
Pole alone: The quest for a north without a south

Physics

Pole alone: The quest for a north without a south

Features
Essence of man: Y size doesn't matter

Life

Essence of man: Y size doesn't matter

Features
Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

Life

Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

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

Space is the place to solve the riddle of life, maybe

Understanding how life got started here on planet Earth may mean searching for its counterparts "out there"

Opinion

Health

Let's rush the Ebola drug out – and be ready next time

Opinion

News

Targeted clot-busting drug won't boost bleeding risk

Health

Targeted clot-busting drug won't boost bleeding risk

Enemy within: a blood clot, made up of red blood cells clumped together with fibrin A new drug treats blood clots without boosting bleeding risk. Clots form when blood platelets clump together. They are treated with blood-thinning drugs , but these must be given orally as they need to be metabolised by the liver to …

News

Revealed: How Ebola paralyses the immune system

News

Iranian woman wins maths' top prize, the Fields medal

News

Environment

Beijing's coal ban may herald the end of the fuel

News

Health

UK push to put warning labels on alcoholic drinks

News

Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem

News

Air drops get water filters and chargers to Iraq refugees

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Rosetta probe poised to touch and taste a comet

News

Surprise! Keystone XL will make climate change worse

News

Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

News

Brain regeneration: Crayfish turn blood into neurons

News

Health

Blood test identifies people with resistant malaria

News

Earth

Chile is facing yet another massive earthquake

News

Sleep tight? Not a chance if you're in space

News

Small, sticky asteroids could be extra dangerous

News

Environment

Pacific dead zone has been shrinking for a century

News

Self-organising origami robot unfolds itself… and walks

News

Cunning Neanderthals hunted and ate wild pigeons

News

3D silk doughnut opens window on brain injury

News

Global warming may be to blame for tornado onslaughts

News

Technology

Esports: Pro video gaming explodes with big prize pots

News

Technology

Esports: Boot camps give gaming teams the vital edge

News

Technology

Doping in esports rampant, industry insider claims

News

Technology

Esports by numbers

News

Technology

Esports: Live from the world's biggest esports event

News

Technology

Esports: Speedrunning turns any game into a sprint

News

Earth

Earth's early life endured long asteroid bombardment

News

Opinion

Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change

Earth

Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change

The amorphous nature of climate change creates the ideal conditions for human denial and cognitive bias to come to the fore

Opinion

Life

How daydreaming can help you beat information overload

Opinion

Technology

Esports: Meet 'Grubby', a real pro gaming superstar

Opinion

Physics

Fields medallist: How Rubik's cube inspired new maths

Opinion

Aperture

Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

Earth

Otherworldly view of a giant Californian wildfire

(Image: Stuart Palley/EPA/Corbis) IT WAS raining fire and brimstone at Yosemite National Park, California. This long-exposure photograph taken in July on the park's western border offers an ethereal, otherworldly view of the massive El Portal forest fire. Named after the gateway to the park, the fire, now under control , at one stage covered around …

Regulars

Features

Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

Life

Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

Video: How life on Earth began What was the last shared ancestor of all life like? How did it make its living? A radical new answer could explain some of the most mysterious features of life IN 1859, when Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species , he dedicated an entire chapter to the …

Features

Physics

Pole alone: The quest for a north without a south

Features

Earth

Toilet to tap: Drinking water at the press of a flush

Features

Life

Essence of man: Y size doesn't matter

Features

Culturelab

Meeting the human faces of the internet's dark places

Technology

Meeting the human faces of the internet's dark places

The far-right EDL whips up hatred online and in the streets (Image: Demotix/Press Association Images) Jamie Bartlett's encounters with the characters behind subversive currencies and online erotica make fascinating reading, but The Dark Net is really about us WHAT is the internet for? Meeting new people. Bullying them mercilessly. Sharing a video of yourself playing …

CultureLab

Life

Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Build in how many dimensions?

Feedback: Build in how many dimensions?

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Build in how many dimensions? QUANTITY surveyors, are, in Feedback's experience, sober people with a clear grasp of the concept "quantity". They will thus be alarmed at the assertion that Adrian Dooley forwards from the National Building Specification website : …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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