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11 October 2014

Issue 2990

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Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

Space

Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

Opinion
Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

Technology

Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

Features
Wonder stuff: Shrimp plus spider kills plastic

Technology

Wonder stuff: Shrimp plus spider kills plastic

Features
Wonder stuff: Frozen smoke to clean the world

Technology

Wonder stuff: Frozen smoke to clean the world

Features
Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza

Technology

Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza

Features
Wonder stuff: Amazing material that <i>does</i> grow on trees

Technology

Wonder stuff: Amazing material that does grow on trees

Features
Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

Life

Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

Features
Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Life

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Features
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Technology

Wonder stuff: Electron freeway for cool gadgets

Features

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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

Cave art discovery is rewriting human prehistory

IF YOU look at the cave paintings pictured in " World's oldest hand stencil found in Indonesian cave ", you could be forgiven for thinking that they were from Lascaux, Pech Merle, or another celebrated site in western Europe. But you'd be a long way wide of the mark. They are actually from Sulawesi, about …

Opinion

Space

Nowhere to hide: the danger of satellite spies

Opinion

News

Cerebellum's growth spurt turned monkeys into humans

Life

Cerebellum's growth spurt turned monkeys into humans

All the bits work together, with the cerebellum helping to orchestrate it all When we search for the seat of humanity, are we looking at the wrong part of the brain ? Most neuroscientists assume that the neocortex, the brain's distinctive folded outer layer, is the thing that makes us uniquely human. But a new …

News

Health

'Perfect storm' turned HIV from local to global killer

News

Earth

The world is warming faster than we thought

News

Space

Vast glaciers carved out Martian Grand Canyon

News

Technology

Snowflake-shaped networks are easiest to mend

News

Health

What drug-data ruling means for pharma firms and you

News

Life

Birds colour-match their nests for camouflage

News

Technology

Real Holodeck turns your living room into a game

News

No fear: thrill-seekers fail to recognise a threat

News

Space

World's first space detective agency launched

News

Technology

Chicago uses big data to save itself from urban ills

News

Space

One Per Cent

News

Health

Womb transplant: old uterus as good as a 20-year-old's

News

Space

Super-close supernova used to map the Cigar Galaxy

News

Space

Moon water blew in on solar wind

News

Earth

Clever clams and algae show how best to harvest light

News

Nobels scooped by blue LEDs and our brain's satnav

News

Health

All countries likely to see Ebola cases by year's end

News

Earth

World not on course to meet 2020 biodiversity targets

News

Earth

Martian methane sniffer adapted for Earth

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Found: closest link to Eve, our universal ancestor

News

Life

World's oldest hand stencil found in Indonesian cave

News

Technology

Computer mind meld gives voice to man after a stroke

News

Health

Exercise may be the best anti-ageing pill

News

Physics

Inside exotic dead stars are piles of waffles

News

Earth

Wild panda land threatened by China's forest reforms

News

Health

LSD's ability to make minds malleable revisited

News

Environment

No escape from hunting harvestman's sticky grasp

News

Opinion

Let science decide the voting age

Life

Let science decide the voting age

Research on the adolescent brain can help us decide whether 16-year-olds should have the vote

Opinion

Health

We must try a lot harder to beat fake antimalarials

Opinion

Technology

What I'd ask Spider-Man, mascot of bio-inspiration

Opinion

Analysis

Virtual reality throws you in at the deep end

Technology

Virtual reality throws you in at the deep end

The latest prototype of virtual reality headset Oculus Rift allows you to step right into the movies you watch and the games you play

News

Technology

Gamers polled on Xbox can predict US election results

News

Aperture

Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling

Life

Grizzled veteran chimp shares snack with stripling

(Image: Anup Shah shahrogersphotography.com) MEET Siri, the fresh young eastern chimpanzee on the left. When this photo was taken Siri was 4. Faustino, on the right, is a grizzled 22-year-old. They aren't related, so it's a little strange to see the veteran male sharing a snack (in this case, lemongrass berries) with a youngling. What's …

Regulars

Features

Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

Technology

Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever

(Image: Dik Wiersma/SPL) Hard drives can be wiped. DVDs degrade. So let's do like Superman and record our most precious memories in shards of data-hungry glass In the Superman comics, the eponymous hero occasionally flies to a crystal fortress where he can access memories of his long-obliterated homeland, stored in shards of crystal. Wouldn't it …

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Shrimp plus spider kills plastic

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Frozen smoke to clean the world

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Heat scavengers promise energy bonanza

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Amazing material that does grow on trees

Features

Life

Upside-down world: the goggles that remake reality

Features

Life

Automatic authors: Making machines that tell tales

Features

Technology

Wonder stuff: Electron freeway for cool gadgets

Features

Culturelab

How big data algorithms see us – while they eat us up

Technology

How big data algorithms see us – while they eat us up

Algorithms know nothing of the heart, but they still cash in on it (Image: Plainpicture/Beyond) From home shopping to homeland security, big data's sausage machine is devouring us all, according to Christian Rudder's future-looking Dataclysm FOUR years ago I interviewed Sam Yagan, then CEO of OKCupid, about the mathematics underlying his free matchmaking site. Yagan …

CultureLab

Life

A life spent chasing down how whales evolved

CultureLab

More

Lighting dark: Fixing academia's mental health problem

Health

Lighting dark: Fixing academia's mental health problem

(Image: Gary Waters/Ikon Images) Academia is starting to acknowledge the depression and anxiety that some faculty members, students and postdocs experience – and help is there As an academic, Sarah Boon was extremely successful. She landed a tenured position a mere six years after completing her PhD. A stack of publications in high-end journals led …

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Einstein said: I didn't say that

Feedback: Einstein said: I didn't say that

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Einstein didn't say that ALBERT EINSTEIN'S name appears to be a magical talisman on internet quotations, we have noted (6 September) . Our request for examples of it being taken in vain produced an enthusiastic, if disgruntled, response from you. …

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