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4 April 2015

Issue 3015

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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.

Technology

Who said the camera never lies?

Opinion
I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Life

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Features
Future cameras will make living photographs reality

Technology

Future cameras will make living photographs reality

Features
Dark eaters: The animals living an alternative life

Life

Dark eaters: The animals living an alternative life

Features
Are you deluded? The strange things we believe

Life

Are you deluded? The strange things we believe

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Don't believe in belief

Life

Don't believe in belief

We trust leaders who speak with conviction – but statements of belief need to be backed by evidence and argument

Opinion

Technology

Who said the camera never lies?

Opinion

News

Killer seals develop a taste for shark guts

Life

Killer seals develop a taste for shark guts

(Image: Chris Fallows) It's like Jaws but, this time, the shark is on the menu. In an incident that turns the phrase "shark attack" on its head, a seal has repeatedly attacked, killed and partially devoured medium-sized sharks. If this turnabout proves common, ecologists may need to reassess the role of seals in marine ecosystems. …

News

Physics

Three ways to fix the LHC before its big reboot

News

Technology

Germanwings co-pilot 'deliberately crashed' plane after locking out captain

News

Space

Galaxy smash-ups show dark matter wants to be alone

News

Life

Bacteria power up by using magnets as batteries

News

Earth

Major Antarctic ice survey reveals dramatic melting

News

Health

French toddler nearly killed by flu had gene mutation

News

Health

If the drugs don't work on the cancer, transform it

News

Space

Scorch marks left by spacecraft on Mars soon fade

News

Life

Twin Earths may lurk in our nearest star system

News

Life

Giant pandas' secret social life revealed

News

Earth

Bee pesticide study furore is called a 'scandal'

News

Technology

AI interns: Software already taking jobs from humans

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Earth

Waste pickers get tool to pinpoint local jobs

News

Technology

Emergency app tells rescuers how to reach and save you

News

Health

UK to pioneer national meningitis B vaccination scheme

News

Life

A big bank balance leads to big-brained babies

News

Health

HIV outbreak spurs needle exchange reprieve in Indiana

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space

News

Space

Dark energy could signal collapse of the universe

News

Life

Fire ants kill and eat baby caimans as they hatch

News

Earth

Asian solar spending helps drive renewable energy boom

News

Space

The moon's got two tails – and its friends might too

News

Opinion

Tapping the weirdness of water to get enough to drink

Physics

Tapping the weirdness of water to get enough to drink

Exploiting water's weird properties with innovative desalination technology could make sure there's enough to go around, says physicist Marcia Barbosa

Opinion

Humans

How your biology could overrule you when voting

Opinion

Life

There's no such thing as a sex drive

Opinion

Aperture

Abandoned underground railway preserved in 3D scan

Abandoned underground railway preserved in 3D scan

(Image: ScanLAB Projects) THE next Bond villain's lair? An alien spaceship lying dormant under an unsuspecting city? This 3D scan of an underground structure is actually of something much more familiar: a postal service. The Mail Rail network shuttled mail around London for 76 years (see photo below) until being decommissioned in 2003. Now it …

Regulars

Features

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Life

I believe: Your personal guidebook to reality

Belief is central to science as well as religion – but we rarely stop to think how bizarre it is. Find out what your core values are really built on

Features

Technology

Future cameras will make living photographs reality

Features

Life

Dark eaters: The animals living an alternative life

Features

Life

Are you deluded? The strange things we believe

Features

Culturelab

<i>Eye of the Beholder</i>: Life through the camera obscura

Life

Eye of the Beholder: Life through the camera obscura

Both 17th-century artist Vermeer and scientist van Leeuwenhoek made pioneering use of optics. A joint biography shows how they changed our world view

CultureLab

Earth

Is imagery the real key to marketing outrage?

CultureLab

More

Laying the foundations for open innovation

Laying the foundations for open innovation

The topics in this article were developed by AstraZeneca, which paid for it to be published

Careers

Regulars

Feedback: Epidemic fact-intolerance

Feedback: Epidemic fact-intolerance

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Epidemic fact-intolerance BEMUSEMENT was a widespread reaction to 47 US senators – Republicans all – posting an " open letter " to Iran in early March, advising the country that it was wasting its time hammering out a deal to …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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