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21 March 2015

Issue 3013

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Editor's picks

First aid for the healthcare of the future

Health

First aid for the healthcare of the future

Opinion
Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self

Life

Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self

Features
Norse legend? The Viking 'GPS' that relied on crystals

Life

Norse legend? The Viking 'GPS' that relied on crystals

Features
Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens

Earth

Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

First aid for the healthcare of the future

Health

First aid for the healthcare of the future

The challenges facing the UK National Health Service go far beyond political wrangling. To tackle them we'll need to leap technological and ideological hurdles

Opinion

News

Zoologger: The baby spiders that munch up their mum

Life

Zoologger: The baby spiders that munch up their mum

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

News

Earth

Warming Arctic blamed for worsening summer heatwaves

News

Space

Explosive eruptions rocked the youthful moon

News

Technology

Vibrating magnetic balls stimulate brain wirelessly

News

Life

Icy pools are oases for unique glacier ecosystems

News

Health

Editing human embryos is genetics' new battleground

News

Earth

Vanuatu disaster prompts calls for climate change action

News

Space

Ice makes unlikely rocket fuel for CubeSats

News

Space

#RosettaWatch: New clues about the origin of comet 67P

News

Space

Quasar backlighting gives weight to Andromeda galaxy

News

Life

Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best

News

Technology

How Charles Dickens can create passwords you remember

News

Technology

Falcons learn to hunt by chasing drones

News

Technology

Pregnancy belt for lifelogging in the womb

News

Technology

One per cent

News

Life

Worm throws Spiderman web – here's how it does it

News

Space

Another hiccup for Mars One's mission to the Red Planet

News

Life

Race to find the first exomoon heats up

News

First successful penis transplant

News

Earth

EU food imports help drive illegal deforestation

News

Earth

California must ration water to avoid drought disaster

News

60 Seconds

News

Humans

Red Lady cave burial reveals Stone Age secrets

News

Life

Ancient invaders transformed Britain, but not its DNA

News

Health

IVF nutrients may dictate if the baby's a boy or girl

News

Life

NHS game-changers: The antibiotic apocalypse

News

NHS game-changers: Growing gap between rich and poor

News

Health

NHS game-changers: The true cost of living longer

News

NHS game-changers: Rise of the data-empowered patient

News

Earth

NHS game-changers: The rising threat of climate change

News

Healthcare tips from around the globe

News

The scientific advances that will help save the NHS

News

Health

Why healthcare success is so hard to replicate

News

Health

Heart drug reduces risk of cancer spreading

News

Life

Wizards of Oz: World's cutest and most awesome spiders

News

Opinion

All hail the Anthropocene, the end of Holocene thinking

Earth

All hail the Anthropocene, the end of Holocene thinking

The Anthropocene geological era is not just the sum of our environmental problems, says Christian Schwägerl. It may also prove to be the age of humility

Opinion

Earth

I watched a flood of aid destroy a culture

Opinion

Technology

Hashtag election: Will it be Twitter wot won it?

Opinion

Analysis

Coal bust may be behind stall in carbon emissions

Earth

Coal bust may be behind stall in carbon emissions

Power down: go for renewables THE link between economic growth and rising greenhouse gas emissions may have finally been broken. Last week, we learned that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels failed to rise in 2014 – the first time that has happened without an economic downturn. Now we know why. Although coal plant …

News

Features

Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self

Life

Me, myself and iCub: Meet the robot with a self

The human self has five components. Machines now have three of them. How far away is artificial consciousness – and what does it tell us about ourselves?

Features

Life

Norse legend? The Viking 'GPS' that relied on crystals

Features

Earth

Clucking hell: The nightmare world without chickens

Features

Culturelab

Flatland: An unseen art installation

Flatland: An unseen art installation

Art in the dark: vision is redundant in this exhibit For a week in chilly March, a cavernous hall at south-east London's Dilston Grove became a blacked-out theatrical art installation for a performance delivered in total darkness. Flatland is the latest work from Extant , the UK's only professional performing arts company of visually impaired …

CultureLab

Life

Is Shame Necessary? It can be in the right hands

CultureLab

Win SCI-FI-LONDON tickets with a smart movie line

CultureLab

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Wanted: Science Communicators

Wanted: Science Communicators

This article was developed by New Scientist in conjunction with Elsevier, which paid for it to be produced

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Artificial stupidity rules KO

Feedback: Artificial stupidity rules KO

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Artificial stupidity rules KO RANKING internet search results according to how well they reflect "facts the web unanimously agrees on" (28 February, p 24) ? What could possibly go wrong? Adrian Ellis wrote to ask about something the web is …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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