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29 October 2005

Issue 2523

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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.

Life

Creativity special: Natural talent

Features
Creativity special: The complexity of the universe

Space

Creativity special: The complexity of the universe

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.

Life

Creativity special: Oh look, a new cliché!

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.

Life

Creativity special: Ten top tips

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.

Life

Creativity special: Just got to write this down

Features
Creativity special: When the music takes you

Life

Creativity special: When the music takes you

Features
The creative mind: special report

Life

The creative mind: special report

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.

Life

Creativity special: Looking for inspiration

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.

Humans

Creativity special: Never give up

Features
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Life

Creativity special: One culture

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.

Life

Creativity special: Where it's at

Features
Wildlife in the big bad city

Life

Wildlife in the big bad city

Features
Attack of the quantum worms

Technology

Attack of the quantum worms

Features

Table of contents

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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

Bombers face detection by breathalyser

TERRORIST bomb makers beware: your bad breath may catch you out. A portable breathalyser has been developed that can detect traces of chemicals found in explosives when they are exhaled by people who have handled them. The device, called Heartsbreath, was developed by Michael Phillips and colleagues at Menssana Research in Fort Lee, New Jersey. …

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Technology

Gizmo

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Technology

Battle for the future of mobile broadband

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Technology

Box of tricks takes surgery into the sticks

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Earth

Underwater observatory to spill ocean's deepest secrets

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Technology

Pentagon's patent security clampdown eases

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Technology

New clear material tougher than bulletproof glass

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Space

Why are Titan's skies cloudy?

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Earth

Keep a weather eye on those vanishing jellyfish

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Earth

Lake algae confirm global warming link

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Life

Thank your father for your lifespan

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Life

Pregnant pause over iron-pill risk

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Space

Capturing a black hole's feeding habit

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Health

Did prior infection save British from vCJD?

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Life

Riding out the menstrual cycle

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Life

Captive chimps show a selfish side

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Earth

How selective logging wrecks the rainforest

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Health

Bone marrow donors risk DNA identity mix-up

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Life

Hidden fractals boost abstract art appreciation

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Life

Conference report: Vertebrate Palaeontology

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Soundbites

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Life

Is IVF test the best for baby?

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60 Seconds

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Life

God goes to court in all but name

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Life

Astro-naughtiness could cause problems in space

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Life

Pest-killing GM cotton still potent after all these years

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Earth

Ancient rare pine auctioned to saved it

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Life

Sonar users versus whale protectors

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Health

Bird flu scares prompts snake oil production

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Life

Circumcision reduces risk of HIV

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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.

Earth

Living where the sky falls in

WHAT is it that compels so many of us to live in places that are so terribly and irredeemably dangerous? We choose, foolishly, to settle in San Francisco or Tokyo, or on the tectonic boundary zones of the Himalayas or the Caucasus, or in the unstable mountain ranges of Turkey and Iran, and put ourselves …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Darwin and dogma

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Creativity unites us all

Opinion

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.

Life

Creativity special: Natural talent

IS NATURE creative? The notion sounds at first like a sop to sentimentalists, an anthropomorphism one step away from pantheism. The beauty of nature is a perilously seductive concept. Biologist Karl von Frisch had it more or less right when, confronted with the variety of delicately patterned radiolarians and diatoms, he was determined not to …

Features

Space

Creativity special: The complexity of the universe

Features

Life

Creativity special: Oh look, a new cliché!

Features

Life

Creativity special: Ten top tips

Features

Life

Creativity special: Just got to write this down

Features

Life

Creativity special: When the music takes you

Features

Life

The creative mind: special report

Features

Life

Creativity special: Looking for inspiration

Features

Humans

Creativity special: Never give up

Features

Life

Creativity special: One culture

Features

Life

Creativity special: Where it's at

Features

Life

Wildlife in the big bad city

Features

Technology

Attack of the quantum worms

Features

More

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.

Lost?

You needn't be. Sure, graduating can be a difficult time. Quicker than you can say the words "student discount", you're out in the wide world with choices to make and loans to pay off. But there is a way out of this careers maze: all you need is to find out where you want to …

Careers

Which way now?

Careers

What I wish I'd known

Careers

Real lives

Careers

Up, up and away

Careers

Masterclass

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

A fine urology team THE website of "The Urology Team" based in Austin, Texas, makes fascinating reading. Damian Gallagher and Will Jessop independently discovered it (don't ask how) at www.intra-focus.com/urology , and direct us to the team profiles. These include the following memorable sentence: "Dr. Richard (Dick) Chopp is well known in the Austin community …

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Letters

Regulars

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