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28 March 2015

Issue 3014

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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

Planet or not, Ceres rocks

Opinion
Battle-scarred Earth: How war reshapes the planet

Earth

Battle-scarred Earth: How war reshapes the planet

Features
Know it all: 10 secrets of successful learning

Humans

Know it all: 10 secrets of successful learning

Features
Clone your tumour to fight your cancer

Health

Clone your tumour to fight your cancer

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Should we thank god for civilisation?

Life

Should we thank god for civilisation?

The idea that religion led to modernity is gaining momentum. But that doesn't mean it should lead civilisation now

Opinion

Space

Planet or not, Ceres rocks

Opinion

News

Zoologger: The semaphore 'worms' as big as sperm whales

Environment

Zoologger: The semaphore 'worms' as big as sperm whales

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story . TALK about teamwork. Huge free-floating coalitions of marine invertebrates known as pyrosomes have to coordinate to ensure the colony heads the right way – and light may be their secret to doing so. The tubular pyrosomes are made up of many …

News

Earth

Turbo termites threaten to eat Florida

News

Sushi parasite inspires worm test for cancer

News

Environment

Cane toad has surprise effect on Australian ecosystem

News

The way to strike gold is to have a mine like a sewer

News

Brain training may help people with ADHD to focus

News

Electric cars are so cool they may make it colder

News

Technology

Drones cleared to check power lines after outages

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Life

Uber opens up to let any object or app call you a cab

News

Space

Wrecking ball Jupiter paved way for Earth

News

Space

First year-long stay on the ISS about to begin

News

Worst Ebola outbreak blamed on political dithering

News

Space

NASA's Curiosity rover finds fatty acids on Mars

News

Only pub sceptics will insist this isn't Richard III

News

Environment

Secret-science bill inches a step closer to US law

News

Europe's electricity grid sails through solar eclipse

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres might have right stuff for life

News

Superbug risk from tonnes of antibiotics fed to animals

News

Arctic winter sea ice shrinks to record low

News

Health

9/11 firefighters hit by autoimmune diseases

News

Swiss cheese is not a sign of Martian climate change

News

Jungle festivals led to first Maya cities

News

Space

Black holes devour stars in gulps and nibbles

News

Health

Alzheimer's progress slowed by plaque-busting drug

News

Health

Warn people of genetic health risks, says deCODE boss

News

Earth

North Dakota curbs wasteful flares of oil drilling gas

News

Opinion

Natural disaster amnesia: Threats we choose to forget

Earth

Natural disaster amnesia: Threats we choose to forget

Two centuries ago the biggest volcanic eruption in history unleashed mayhem across the world. Are we prepared for an inevitable repeat?

Opinion

English speakers, you stink at identifying smells

Opinion

Bank of England guru: We're crowdsourcing economics

Opinion

Aperture

Reverse silhouettes capture the beauty of nature

Life

Reverse silhouettes capture the beauty of nature

(Image: György Kepes (1906-2001) © Estate of György Kepes) THEY may look like conventional photographs, but no cameras were used in the making of György Kepes's "photograms". Instead, the artist arranged objects directly on top of light-sensitive paper, then illuminated them. Kepes showed just as much enthusiasm for scientific and mechanical subjects as for natural …

Regulars

Features

Battle-scarred Earth: How war reshapes the planet

Earth

Battle-scarred Earth: How war reshapes the planet

War isn't just for the history books. Bombs, munitions testing and chemical weapons dumps have left an indelible legacy on our planet's geology

Features

Humans

Know it all: 10 secrets of successful learning

Features

Health

Clone your tumour to fight your cancer

Features

Culturelab

<i>David and Goliath</i>: What do we do about surveillance?

Technology

David and Goliath: What do we do about surveillance?

From spyware designed to catch students misbehaving to police tracking rioters by phone, we are spied on as never before, reveals a book by Bruce Schneier

CultureLab

Earth

How landscapes mould language and lives

CultureLab

Life

Why food is rarely the simple pleasure it once was

CultureLab

Regulars

Feedback: Death meets his maker

Feedback: Death meets his maker

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Death meets his maker TERRY PRATCHETT was, Feedback guesses, the favourite fiction author of many of our readers. What can one say when the person who invented Death dies? The vicissitudes of weekly publication prevented our making a timely tribute …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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