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18 October 2014

Issue 2991

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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.

Be wary of evidence saying tracked employees are best

Opinion
What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Earth

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Features
We can stop the extinction of nature's 'walking dead'

Life

We can stop the extinction of nature's 'walking dead'

Features
Quantum computer buyers' guide: Getting started

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Getting started

Features
Quantum computer buyers' guide: Hardware

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Hardware

Features
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

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Apps

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Quantum computer buyers' guide: Buy one today

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Buy one today

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Table of contents

Leaders

Estonia's e-citizen test is a test for us all

Estonia's e-citizen test is a test for us all

The Baltic minnow's bold experiment with digital residency could help us understand what comes after the nation state

Opinion

Be wary of evidence saying tracked employees are best

Opinion

News

Two new strange and charming particles appear at LHC

Technology

Two new strange and charming particles appear at LHC

Uncovering more particles at the LHC Two new particles have been discovered by the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. One of them has a combination of properties that has never been observed before. The particles, named DS3*(2860) – and DS1*(2860) – , are about three times as massive as protons. …

News

Life

Lung cancer's long hibernation may be its weak spot

News

Space

Desktop sonic black hole emits Hawking radiation

News

Earth

Australia's toad vanguard hops straight to invade fast

News

Technology

Violins evolved by Stradivarian design

News

Health

Ebola deaths to peak in places before vaccine is ready

News

Earth

Fish love skyscraper-style living under oil platforms

News

Poisonous frogs safe to sing longer and louder

News

Space

Software will let spacecraft find water on planets

News

Mini MRI to check bone health on space station

News

Space

Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm

News

Technology

Fly in the face of danger with first-person drone view

News

Technology

Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play

News

Technology

One per cent

News

Technology

Light beacons let map app talk to blind people

News

Health

Absent tots give early alarm on disease

News

Earth

Pentagon warns the US military of climate change

News

Health

Stem cells improve vision enough for horse riding

News

Australia prime minister to chair new science council

News

Space

Secret US spaceplane lands after 674-day mission

News

Health

Cancer code aims to nudge Europeans into avoiding risks

News

Earth

Will we still be swimming in the sea in 2100?

News

60 Seconds

News

Prosthetic hand recreates feeling of cotton bud touch

News

Life

Extinct giant kangaroos didn't hop, they walked

News

Metal solves mystery of flames that inspired Homer

News

Space

First Mars settlers may last only 68 days

News

Earth

5 reasons to worry about a quagga mussel invasion

News

Opinion

Ebola could never spread widely here. Could it?

Health

Ebola could never spread widely here. Could it?

An ambulance at the residence of the nurse in Spain who contracted Ebola After the first cases of Ebola in Europe and the US, how well prepared are nations beyond western Africa to cope with the virus, asks Debora MacKenzie Ebola is spreading. Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who carried Ebola to the US, has …

Opinion

Technology

A heroic family fight against paralysis

Opinion

Europe's new scientific revolution

Opinion

Atul Gawande: Aim for a good life, not a good death

Opinion

Analysis

E-citizens unite: Estonia opens its digital borders

Technology

E-citizens unite: Estonia opens its digital borders

Estonia has invited people to register as e-residents - a step towards a world where a person’s identity online matters just as much as their identity offline

News

Aperture

Bat dozes through the depths of a Polish winter

Life

Bat dozes through the depths of a Polish winter

(Image: Lukasz Bozycki/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014/bozycki.pl) THE Puszcza Piska forest of northern Poland is huge, covering some 1000 square kilometres. Hidden amid the wilderness is a network of wartime German bunkers, and in one room, this Daubenton's bat was found hanging from the ceiling, asleep. Lukasz Bozycki and his biologist friend Piotr Tomasik …

Regulars

Features

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

Earth

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

What's the historical alternative to coal and gas? (Image: Michael Kirkham) Our advanced civilisation is built on easily exploited coal, oil and gas. New Scientist explores an alternative history that holds lessons for us all YOU are probably reading this on a piece of ex-tree. Felled by a petrol-guzzling chainsaw, it was carted to a …

Features

Life

We can stop the extinction of nature's 'walking dead'

Features

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Getting started

Features

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Hardware

Features

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Apps

Features

Technology

Quantum computer buyers' guide: Buy one today

Features

Culturelab

A smell-defying mystery to savour

Life

A smell-defying mystery to savour

Burning toast: an evocative aroma (Image: Eleonore de Bonneval) Anosmia: Lives Without a Sense of Smell by Eléonore de Bonneval, Kenzo Parfums showroom, Paris, 17 to 21 September. European and US tour in 2015 Losing the sense of smell can leave people feeling emotionally blunted – so why is a new exhibition about anosmia so moving? When …

CultureLab

Life

Why language is neither an instinct nor innate

CultureLab

Life

Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Indemnifies and holds harmless

Feedback: Indemnifies and holds harmless

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Indemnifies, holds harmless WHILING away half an hour after the rigmarole to get on to the Eurostar train in Brussels, Feedback resorted to the internet. Of course we were asked to "accept and understand the terms and conditions" of the …

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