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Editor's picks

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.

Decisions, decisions - Could it be wedding bells for Josie and Adam or has Hugh got his sums wrong? Robert Matthews hopes they do the right thing

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.

Knock knock who's there? - Stephanie Pain. And has she got bad news for deathwatch beetles . . .

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.

Christmas quiz

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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.

Reckless raccoon's big day - It was just a lil ole piece of prairie before them there particle folk moved in. Now the critters are fighting back, says Marcus Chown

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.

Dying to know - Would you lay your life on the line for a theory? Marcus Chown meets a man who's thinking about it

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.

Drunk as a skunk - If hangover research ends up with people falling over in the lab, how on earth can we ever find a cure? Our man down the pub, Andy Coghlan, forced himself to find out

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.

Stranger by the moment... - The kids are in a zero-calorie trance in front of the TV. Mum's crawling with demodex mites. And baby's eating chalk and wallpaper paste. Don't you just love Christmas, says David Bodanis

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.

Sleepy heads - There's no better way of being out of it during the cruel winter months. Gail Vines lays down stores and prepares to turn into a dormouse

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.

A mouldy old vintage - First lice, now black goo. Sounds like California's vine growers should just jump in a vat of Chardonnay and pull the lid down, says Lewis Perdue

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.

Space attack! - There's a war going on in Deep Space for the hearts and minds of Earth's children . . . as they decide which space toy their poor parents will have to buy. Scott Lafee reports from the front line

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.

Palaces of memory - Poussin's all over the place, the Mona Lisa's probably a fake and they won't let you into the caves at Vallon. Don't worry, Bruce Durie has a cunning plan

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.

All God's children got...

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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.

Let a thousand flowers bloom . . . - They're heavy metal's biggest fans—and they hang out in the seediest of places. Amy Adams gets a lesson in 90s-style flower power

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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.

Movers and shakers - Can the sound of one snowflake stop a plane from crashing into a mountainside? Ian Stewart puts his ear to the ground

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Table of contents

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Focus : Damage limitation - How can scientists work in sensitive ecosystems without harming them? A new set of Australian guidelines could help

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Herbal remedies win respect

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A deadly passion - How to lure wood-crunching termites to their doom

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Exotic planet is gone with the wind

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Gut feeling - A stomach ulcer vaccine is on the cards

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Technofile : Life savers

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Technofile : Sun farm

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Technofile : Cancer crop

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Technofile : Babel fish

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Where's Rudolph? - The lichens have died back, so reindeer herds must be slashed

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In brief : Diabetes plant

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In brief : Big freeze

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In brief : Wet outlook for mutant salamander

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Gel makes go-faster chips

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Bolt from the blue - There are bigger hazards than noise for people living under a flight path

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Beavers will be back, if Scots want them

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Nature's way - Ancient inks will clean up desktop printers

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51¶¯Âþwire : AIDS behind bars

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51¶¯Âþwire : Cybercops unite

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51¶¯Âþwire : Killer scratch

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Netropolitan : Festival fever

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Netropolitan :

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Comprenez?

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Video for the People - Tit-for-tat royalties will help spread the word in China

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Whisky galore - Reconditioned casks are the key to a more mature flavour

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Wolves out

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Earth

Dirty dealings - A coup at Kyoto allows the US to buy the right to pollute

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Peace in the forest - A remarkable discovery offers hope for the red squirrel

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Patents : Food for fish

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Patents : Novel or not

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Patents : Grab that tree

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In mint condition . . . - Metallic mist saves Europe's oldest treasure-trove

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Will Europe let C5 pump up the power?

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51¶¯Âþwire : Bird flu spreads

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51¶¯Âþwire : Observatory doomed

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51¶¯Âþwire : Good blood

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The drying of a continent - Earthquakes devastated early civilisations, scientists told the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco—but settlers elsewhere did some damage of their own. 51¶¯Âþ reports

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How the ancient world came to a shaky end

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Germ warfare - Household cleaners help bugs dodge antibiotic weapons

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The cold light of day - Britain's culture of scientific secrecy could soon be swept away

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Viral magic - Crops become biofactories

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Opinion


Features

Drunk as a skunk - If hangover research ends up with people falling over in the lab, how on earth can we ever find a cure? Our man down the pub, Andy Coghlan, forced himself to find out

Features

Stranger by the moment... - The kids are in a zero-calorie trance in front of the TV. Mum's crawling with demodex mites. And baby's eating chalk and wallpaper paste. Don't you just love Christmas, says David Bodanis

Features

Sleepy heads - There's no better way of being out of it during the cruel winter months. Gail Vines lays down stores and prepares to turn into a dormouse

Features

A mouldy old vintage - First lice, now black goo. Sounds like California's vine growers should just jump in a vat of Chardonnay and pull the lid down, says Lewis Perdue

Features

Space attack! - There's a war going on in Deep Space for the hearts and minds of Earth's children . . . as they decide which space toy their poor parents will have to buy. Scott Lafee reports from the front line

Features

Palaces of memory - Poussin's all over the place, the Mona Lisa's probably a fake and they won't let you into the caves at Vallon. Don't worry, Bruce Durie has a cunning plan

Features

All God's children got...

Features

Let a thousand flowers bloom . . . - They're heavy metal's biggest fans—and they hang out in the seediest of places. Amy Adams gets a lesson in 90s-style flower power

Features

Movers and shakers - Can the sound of one snowflake stop a plane from crashing into a mountainside? Ian Stewart puts his ear to the ground

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