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23 May 2015

Issue 3022

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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.

Health

Will home-brewed drugs lead to revolution or evolution?

Opinion
The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists

Space

The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists

Features
Good looking: The veggies that really do boost night vision

Health

Good looking: The veggies that really do boost night vision

Features
Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing

Health

Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing

Features
Good looking: Video games that can help you see better

Health

Good looking: Video games that can help you see better

Features
Good looking: How time outdoors could protect kids' eyesight

Health

Good looking: How time outdoors could protect kids' eyesight

Features
Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic's time bomb

Earth

Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic's time bomb

Features
Good looking: Phone screens that do the focusing for you

Health

Good looking: Phone screens that do the focusing for you

Features
Good looking: Super lens implants are going mainstream

Health

Good looking: Super lens implants are going mainstream

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

It's time to focus on the global tragedy that is impaired vision

Health

It's time to focus on the global tragedy that is impaired vision

Poor eyesight isn’t just a nuisance: it destroys lives. Fortunately, creative new remedies are bringing clearer vision to everyone

Opinion

Health

Will home-brewed drugs lead to revolution or evolution?

Opinion

News

Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?

Life

Flies share basic elements of human fear – but is it emotion?

Scare me and I'll buzz off When a fly escapes being swatted, what is going on in its head? Is it as terrified as we would be after a close shave with death? Or is buzzing away from assailants a momentary inconvenience that flies shrug off? It now seems that flies do become rattled. "In …

News

Life

Bad memories drive lab rats to rescue drenched companions faster

News

Technology

The internet is running out of room – but we can save it

News

Life

Zoologger: The clumsy tree-dweller transforms into a gliding ace

News

Earth

Exact map of salmon journeys drawn from strontium in their ears

News

Earth

Americans face six-fold hike in exposure to extreme heat by 2070

News

Technology

Pics and chat data are hackable on apps like Tinder and Grindr

News

Health

Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs

News

Earth

New Zealand's worst earthquake fear confirmed by sediment survey

News

Technology

One Per Cent

News

Technology

Virtual worlds so good they'll change our grasp on real life

News

Supernova space bullets could have seeded Earth's iron core

News

Space

Secret US X-37B plane takes to the skies to experiment in space

News

Technology

Your brain's unique response to words can reveal your identity

News

Health

Vital antibiotics research needs radical new incentives

News

Health

Iron levels in brain predict when people will get Alzheimer's

News

Life

Last chance plan to save world's rarest ape, the Hainan gibbon

News

Earth

2 ºC warming goal shaky as governments throw cash at fossil fuel

News

Life

Barcode your egg and sperm cells to avoid IVF mix-ups

News

Life

Oldest broken bone reveals our ancestors' switch to life on land

News

Life

Unravelling capitalism's hidden networks of power

News

Speed-limiting technology could have averted train derailment

News

Environment

60 Seconds

News

Health

Young blood helps repair fractured bones of ageing mice

News

Health

Bigger brains help female fish outwit predators and live longer

News

Opinion

We must put the brakes on glaciers to stop the seas rising

Earth

We must put the brakes on glaciers to stop the seas rising

The public may balk at geoengineering, but we've got to think boldly if we're going to protect our coasts, says glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk

Opinion

Earth

No rest for the Arctic: As big oil pulls out, military muscles in

Opinion

Why I'm staying on free speech's front line

Opinion

Life

Cuckoos against the clock: Charming cheats in mystery decline

Opinion

Aperture

Life at Faulty Towers carries on despite being deep underwater

Earth

Life at Faulty Towers carries on despite being deep underwater

(Image: J. R. Delaney, D. S. Kelley and M. Elend, University of Washington/WHOI-ROV Jason/American Museum of Natural History, New York) At Faulty Towers, you're sure of a warm reception. No, not the " He's from Barcelona ", " Don't mention the war " Fawlty Towers hotel managed by John Cleese. This is the Faulty Towers …

Regulars

Features

Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing

Health

Good looking: Keep moving if you want to keep seeing

One of the many benefits of exercising is that it helps to protect against various forms of blindness as we get older

Features

Health

Good looking: Video games that can help you see better

Features

Health

Good looking: How time outdoors could protect kids' eyesight

Features

Earth

Methane apocalypse? Defusing the Arctic's time bomb

Features

Health

Good looking: Phone screens that do the focusing for you

Features

Health

Good looking: The veggies that really do boost night vision

Features

Space

The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists

Features

Health

Good looking: Super lens implants are going mainstream

Features

Culturelab

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

Physics

Einstein and Schrödinger: The price of fame

From personal feuds to fruitless quests to overhaul quantum theory, the two physics legends fought hard to maintain their fame, argues a new book

CultureLab

Life

How to Clone a Mammoth: But should we?

CultureLab

Physics

Getting an insight into Einstein's worlds

CultureLab

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Regulars

Regulars

Feedback: Do Brussels bureaucrats impose quackery? Guess!

Feedback: Do Brussels bureaucrats impose quackery? Guess!

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Does Brussels impose quackery? People in the UK are bracing for the debate on whether to stay in the European Union – the Conservative party, just elected, promised a referendum by 2017. One anti-EU newspaper has set a disturbingly low …

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