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8 April 2006

Issue 2546

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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.

Aliens in sheep's clothing

Features
Alchemy: Isaac Newton's curse?

Life

Alchemy: Isaac Newton's curse?

Features
The very first Americans

Life

The very first Americans

Features
Genomics: We are all numbers

Life

Genomics: We are all numbers

Features
Water: The quantum elixir

Water: The quantum elixir

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

Breath test for breast cancer

A SIMPLE 2-minute breath test at a doctor's surgery could detect breast cancer at an early stage. Some medical conditions cause patients to exhale volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in their breath. In the US, a breath analyser made by Menssana Research of Fort Lee, New Jersey, is already being used to detect telltale VOCs in …

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Technology

Gizmo

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Technology

Illness simulators boost medical empathy

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Earth

Tibet's late growth spurt delayed the monsoon

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Health

Another reason to quit smoking for good

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Life

Portable scanner designed for plants

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Life

Fossil eggs come out of their shell

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Life

Lazy mole rats that get fat to have sex

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Life

Why women are changing their minds about men

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Space

Missing: a fifth terrestrial planet

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Space

Ghostly particles carry imprint of early cosmos

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This week 45 years ago

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Life

Three-pronged plot to keep HIV at bay

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Technology

Change your appearance, not your shirt

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Health

Lab-grown bladder shows big promise

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Soundbites

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Health

How many more lives will Chernobyl claim?

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Technology

RunBot legs it to break record

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Life

Mirrored chamber reflects insect wing motion

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Life

Not all animals have the animal gene

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Health

A chaotic test for Parkinson's

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Earth

Diversity hotspots face fatal dousing with acid

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Life

First fossil of fish that crawled onto land discovered

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Life

First win in India's HIV battle

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Life

Prayers found ineffective in speeding recovery

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Technology

US missile defence system under fire

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Earth

Africa's soil needs food of its own

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Life

Confusion over the choosing of Caesarean births

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Earth

Aral Sea may be bouncing back

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Earth

Air heats up high above Antarctica

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Technology

Non-invasive breathing aid approved for tots

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60 Seconds

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Earth

New world order of polluters

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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.

Technology

Iran's nuclear fantasy

"WE HAVE the right to develop nuclear technology." This is the surprising answer that many Iranians, secular or religious, give to western journalists asking about their country's plan to expand its nuclear capabilities. The west should not be too surprised by this: the Iranian regime has been carefully and systematically shaping public opinion on the …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: In with the lab-grown organs

Opinion

Life

Interview: Meet the alloparents

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.

Aliens in sheep's clothing

In 1822, an exceptionally loud pair of trousers helped to launch a fashion revolution. Scotland's celebrity author Sir Walter Scott created a sensation when he wore woollen trousers in a black-and-white check to welcome King George IV to Edinburgh – the first visit by a British monarch in more than a century. Although the design, …

Features

Life

Alchemy: Isaac Newton's curse?

Features

Life

The very first Americans

Features

Life

Genomics: We are all numbers

Features

Water: The quantum elixir

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.

Two sides in no-man's-land

IT LOOKS like an ordinary Sunday soccer match, but not much is ordinary here. The playing field is next to the Ukrainian town of Narodichi, which is close enough to the Chernobyl power plant still to be feeling the effects of the catastrophic explosion there 20 years ago this month. Surface levels of radioactive fallout …

Books & Arts

Life

Ancestors behaving badly

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Oil ecology

Regulars

Biotech and pharma develop a symbiotic relationship

Careers

Life

Seed to Seed: The secret life of plants

Books & Arts

Life

No Nettles Required by Ken Thompson

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Pasta and intelligent design WITH the news that Bobby Henderson's long-awaited book The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is out and available at bookstores and online booksellers, our thoughts turn inevitably to the related topics of pasta and intelligent design. In particular they turn to an experiment performed by Thomas Schneider that, it is …

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