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3 January 2015

Issue 3002

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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.

Space

After a century of relativity, a new view of gravity

Opinion
Gravity's secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Physics

Gravity's secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Features
A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap?

Health

A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap?

Features
Seven megaprojects that would change the world

Earth

Seven megaprojects that would change the world

Features
Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones

Technology

Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Raise a toast to drugs that could replace alcohol

Health

Raise a toast to drugs that could replace alcohol

Drugs that are taken instead of alcohol, or which reduce the urge to consume it, should be treated carefully, but if they reduce harm, they must be allowed

Opinion

Space

After a century of relativity, a new view of gravity

Opinion

News

Zoologger: Baby lobster with a taste for jellyfish surfing

Life

Zoologger: Baby lobster with a taste for jellyfish surfing

Food to go Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world Species: Ibacus novemdentatus Habitat: Western Pacific and Indian Oceans It's not every day you see a crustacean surfing a jellyfish. Adapted perfectly for hiding on the sandy ocean floor, the adult animal looks like …

News

Space

#RosettaWatch: Comet lander could wake up next year

News

Earth

Multitalented giant clams keep corals reefs healthy

News

Health

Plant extract trumps nicotine patches to quit smoking

News

Earth

Europe set to allow individual nations to ban GM crops

News

Health

Acid bath stem-cell scientist can't reproduce results

News

Life

Antarctic tourism may pose disease threat to penguins

News

Life

You could be wearing your alibi right now

News

Space

NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes final tour of Mercury

News

60 Seconds

News

Mind

High and dry? Party drug could target excess drinking

News

Life

Flying high: Drones keep tabs on wildlife from above

News

Space

'Super-powered oven' suggests Venus once had continents

News

Ice floe serves as lab for drifting Arctic explorers

News

Space

Wi-Fi could let robots roam around the ISS

News

Space

Titan's lakes could be refilled from below

News

Health

Vitamin D's benefit may lie in syncing our body clocks

News

White wine may not really exist

News

Technology

Personalised learning lets children study at their own pace

News

Technology

One per cent

News

Space

Galaxy-mapping megacamera falls victim to loose fibres

News

Humans

Russia boasts best mental agility at World Mind Games

News

Life

Masculine-sounding lawyers less likely to win in court

News

Technology

Keep snuggly warm with self-heating nanowire clothes

News

Opinion

Keep science at the heart of new push to end poverty

Keep science at the heart of new push to end poverty

Science and technology have proved the key to prosperity for poor nations. The 2030 development goals must enshrine this

Opinion

Earth

Just banking seeds won't guarantee our future food

Opinion

Life

Pet theory: Why domestic animals look cute

Opinion

Aperture

Spiny monster from the depths of world's oldest lake

Earth

Spiny monster from the depths of world's oldest lake

(Image: Olga Kamenskaya/Naturepl.com) OLGA KAMENSKAYA says she lost her heart to Lake Baikal. It's easy to see why . At 1642 metres deep and 25 million years old, the lake is the world's deepest and oldest. It's basically an inland sea. Baikal is also a paradise of biodiversity, "the Galapagos of Russia". Thousands of species …

Regulars

Features

Gravity's secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Physics

Gravity's secret: How relativity meets quantum physics

Some neat tricks with gravity could finally probe how it affects the quantum realm and allow us to devise a theory of everything, says Michael Brooks

Features

Health

A date with disease: Get the app, risk the clap?

Features

Earth

Seven megaprojects that would change the world

Features

Technology

Wind riders: Amazing albatross flight inspires drones

Features

Culturelab

Exclusive: Jane Hawking tells her Theory of Everything

Physics

Exclusive: Jane Hawking tells her Theory of Everything

Video: The Theory of Everything - Exclusive preview IT IS 1963, and we're at a student party in Oxford. A young man approaches a young woman. "I'm a cosmologist," he says.               "What's that?" "It's religion for intelligent atheists."               You will have seen him on The Simpsons and Star Trek but you've never seen him like …

CultureLab

Books to look forward to in 2015

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Handy nutritious molecules

Feedback: Handy nutritious molecules

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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