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23 December 2006

Issue 2583

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Festive special: Real slow food

Life

Festive special: Real slow food

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But is it (robot) art?

Life

But is it (robot) art?

Features
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Histories: And this little pig went extinct

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Features
Did someone say 'sex on a peach'?

Life

Did someone say 'sex on a peach'?

Features
Festive special: No business like snow business

Physics

Festive special: No business like snow business

Features
Sniffing out a whale's doo-doo

Life

Sniffing out a whale's doo-doo

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Pee-cycling

Earth

Pee-cycling

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Life

When a calendar finally settles down

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Blackholes in your backyard

Space

Blackholes in your backyard

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Festive special: Mind the mistletoe

Life

Festive special: Mind the mistletoe

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Physics

Wobblology: The wobbly table's tale

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Just can't get e-nough

Life

Just can't get e-nough

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Life

Festive special: The brewer's tale

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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

Solar power could turn nanobots on

SUNLIGHT could one day be harnessed to power nanobots, thanks to nanocables that turn light into electricity. The nanocables work in a similar way to the semiconductors in solar panels, but on a much smaller scale. "This is the first example of a photoconducting nanostructure," says Takanori Fukushita of the University of Tokyo, Japan, a …

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Technology

Leaky pipe? call in the clots

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Technology

Cellphone tells the world what mode you're in

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Technology

Gizmo

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Life

Web 2.0 is all about the feel-good factor

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Review 2006: Science back in the US spotlight

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Earth

Review 2006: Climate rhetoric heats up

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Life

Review 2006: Watch yourself on the WWW

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Earth

Review 2006: Fish numbers plummet

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Space

Review 2006: I'm a planet, get me outta here!

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Life

Review 2006: No embryos were harmedÂ…

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Space

Review 2006: One small roll for a Mars RoverÂ…

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Earth

Scanning on thin polar ice

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Space

Review 2006: Battleground Gallactica

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This week 50 years ago

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Earth

The day tectonic plates come to rest

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Physics

Review 2006: String theory increasingly knotty

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Life

Review 2006: Welcoming Neanderthals back into the family

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Life

Review 2006: Evolution in action

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Health

Review 2006: Artificial bladder transplant success

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Soundbites

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Life

Humans can learn old dogs' trick

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Health

Nerve damage hints at diabetes cure

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Health

Mosquito 'factories' to fight malaria

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Space

High flyer listens for neutrinos' pings

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Earth

Holly trees hobbled by smog

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Earth

Canada heads for a showdown over Kyoto

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Opinion

Interview: Back to Earth with a vision

Space

Interview: Back to Earth with a vision

On 18 September a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, headed for the International Space Station. On board was Anousheh Ansari , the first woman in history to buy a ticket to space. Ansari signed up with space tourism company Space Adventures and was slotted as a stand-in for Daisuke Enomoto, …

Opinion

Earth

Environmental smoke and mirrors

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Canada faces the wrong way on climate change

Opinion

Space

Editorial: A handful of stardust

Opinion

Features

Festive special: Real slow food

Life

Festive special: Real slow food

THE next time you mourn a forgotten morsel that's slipped past its use-by date, remember that things could always be worse. Take the case of Fidelia Bates of Tecumseh, Michigan: after baking a fruit cake for Thanksgiving in November 1877, the unfortunate Mrs Bates promptly expired. This presented a rather delicate question at the family …

Features

Life

But is it (robot) art?

Features

Life

Histories: And this little pig went extinct

Features

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ magazine's 2006 end-of-year quiz

Features

Life

Did someone say 'sex on a peach'?

Features

Physics

Festive special: No business like snow business

Features

Life

Sniffing out a whale's doo-doo

Features

Earth

Pee-cycling

Features

Life

When a calendar finally settles down

Features

Space

Blackholes in your backyard

Features

Life

Festive special: Mind the mistletoe

Features

Physics

Wobblology: The wobbly table's tale

Features

Life

Just can't get e-nough

Features

Life

Festive special: The brewer's tale

Features

More

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Life

Big Fleas Have Little Fleas, by Elizabeth Davidson

YOU wouldn't think a history of the science of invertebrate diseases could be this fascinating. Yet this seemingly obscure area has been vital to many scientific fields, from germ theory to symbiosis, and for human welfare as well. This book moves briskly from Louis Pasteur's entrancement with silkworms to the spread of cholera and the …

Books & Arts

Life

Wondrous Curiosities, by Stephanie Moser

Books & Arts

Review: Worldchanging: A user's guide for the 21st century, edited by Alex Steffen

Books & Arts

Reawakening the seeds of memory

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Embarrassment

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Feedback

CHRISTMAS trees into Tamiflu – it doesn't quite have the ring of "swords into ploughshares", but it may save as many lives. That, at least, is what the Canadian firm Biolyse Pharma of St Catharines, Ontario, is suggesting. Flu pills from Christmas trees Tamiflu, aka oseltamivir, is the one drug that works against bird flu, …

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