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24 January 2015

Issue 3005

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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

We're in for the long haul in UK's nuclear clean-up

Opinion
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 them eat steak: How to eat meat the healthy way

Features
Where heroes come from – and how to become one

Life

Where heroes come from – and how to become one

Features
Shoes vs barefoot: The myth of the normal foot

Health

Shoes vs barefoot: The myth of the normal foot

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

The world pays too high a price for cheap meat

Earth

The world pays too high a price for cheap meat

What's your beef? (Image: Mikael Andersson/Plainpicture) Health worries won't curtail the growing global appetite for meat – perhaps environmental concerns will be more persuasive NOT long ago, a meal centred on meat was a rare treat. No longer. Most of us in the West now eat meat every day; many consume it at every meal. …

Opinion

Earth

We're in for the long haul in UK's nuclear clean-up

Opinion

News

Geese use the Himalayas like a massive rollercoaster

Life

Geese use the Himalayas like a massive rollercoaster

A flight like a fairground ride They were once reported to fly over Mount Everest itself , almost 9 kilometres up. Now it turns out that bar-headed geese are a bit more level-headed about how they make their gruelling trip each year from Mongolia to spend winters in warmer India. Instead of climbing to dizzying …

News

Technology

Super-zoom for microscope samples made from nappies

News

Life

If birds in a truck fly, does the truck get lighter?

News

Technology

Mice are first pioneers of medical micromissiles

News

Space

Beagle 2 spotted on Mars in one piece after 11 years

News

Life

Zoologger: Spider has sex, then chews off own genitals

News

Health

First anti-obesity electronic implant wins US approval

News

Health

Soviet Union fall helped drug-resistant TB to take off

News

Life

Cunning snails drug fish with insulin then eat them

News

Health

Ukraine is left struggling as health workers flee

News

Space

Mystery storms rage across face of Uranus

News

Technology

Peer-to-peer lending heralds mortgages without banks

News

Technology

Uber's taxi data will help us understand our cities

News

Technology

Smart clothes double as pregnancy health tracker

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Earth

World leaders in Davos to focus on risks to humanity

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Shocking state of world's riskiest nuclear waste site

News

Space

Weird cosmic echoes may offer new glimpse of big bang

News

Health

Antibiotics in blood up chance mossies pass on malaria

News

Earth

Did shrinking Lake Chad help Boko Haram grow?

News

Space

Japan might get to name the most alien worlds

News

Health

Open talk about suicide in the UK might prevent it

News

Earth

Lab-bound bacteria could lead to 'safer' GM organisms

News

Environment

Meteorite mineral named after beer is time capsule

News

Health

Extroverts may have stronger immune systems

News

Opinion

Social failure, not lifestyle, has made Scots sick

Health

Social failure, not lifestyle, has made Scots sick

Job loss and social breakdown, not smoking and bad diet, lie at the roots of Scotland's infamously high rate of premature death, says a public health expert

Opinion

Health

Genome hunter: Rare diseases make people want to help

Opinion

Life

E. O. Wilson: Religious faith is dragging us down

Opinion

Aperture

This baby coral will grow up to patch ailing reefs

Life

This baby coral will grow up to patch ailing reefs

(Image: Tim Calver/ Tim Calver Photography ) A SMALL school of grunts is unfazed by the photographer as they swim over this tiny coral oasis off Florida's coast. But this is no ordinary reef: it has been made by biologists trying to farm corals to transplant onto damaged reefs. Many species are in need – …

Regulars

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.

Health

Let them eat steak: How to eat meat the healthy way

Linked to all manner of illness and an eco-villain too – meat has an image problem. But the evidence says that smart diners can welcome it back to the menu

Features

Life

Where heroes come from – and how to become one

Features

Health

Shoes vs barefoot: The myth of the normal foot

Features

Culturelab

Eco-city dreams vs real eco-activism

Earth

Eco-city dreams vs real eco-activism

Map of Dongtan eco-city (Image: Nir Elias/Reuters/Corbis) Utopian plans for green cities are blasted in Julie Sze's Fantasy Islands , while Paul Steinberg holds out hope for the humble in Who Rules the Earth? THERE are two visions of a greener world: an Arcadian, back-to-the-land version in which we all live simpler, more frugal lives; …

CultureLab

Earth

Turbulent lessons from tropical storms

CultureLab

Life

Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Nice slice of fried man, Sir?

Feedback: Nice slice of fried man, Sir?

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Nice slice of fried man, Sir? NEWS reaches Feedback of a grim, cold first Monday back at university, and a class introducing humanities graduate students to statistics. Our informant was distracted by her neighbour snacking on McCoy's crisps – and …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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