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27 August 2005

Issue 2514

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The rise of the house father

Life

The rise of the house father

Features
Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Earth

Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Features
Entropy: The new order

Physics

Entropy: The new order

Features
Keeping your nerves in order

Health

Keeping your nerves in order

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.

Health

Passive smoking primes children for addiction

SMOKERS may huff about their rights to indulge their puffing habit, but they could be harming those around them even more than we thought. Inhaling passive smoke may physically prime some children to become smoking addicts later in life. There is already growing evidence that second-hand smoke is not only harmful in itself, but that …

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Life

More animals join the learning circle

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Soundbites

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Earth

Crop revival for Aceh after the Tsunami

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Health

'Mad ewes' give birth to BSE lambs

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Life

Salt source for ancient Chinese chefs revealed

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Space

Black holes burp on first starry meal

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Life

Placebos trigger an opioid hit in the brain

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Life

Are you seeing what I am seeing?

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Life

Quick fix for kidney failure proves puzzling

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Life

African frog hunts with eyes wide shut

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Life

Humans beings are not natural gamblers

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Health

TB could make a European comeback

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Life

Many embryonic stem cells from one embryo

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Earth

Famous Moon photo to be recreated

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60 Seconds

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Life

Trauma of war hits troops years later

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Health

Drugs giants in the firing line

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Life

Wolves win the right to roam

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Health

Polio will not be eradicated this year

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Technology

Gizmo

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Technology

Stopping the slaughter of innocent pedestrians

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Life

How card sharps fool the best of us

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Technology

Your very own personal search engine

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Space

Satellite imagery locates mass graves

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Technology

'Singing' keeps aircraft in the sky

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Technology

Scale buildings in a single bound

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Technology

US on course for shrink-to-fit laser

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Earth

No more sex for weeds on the farm

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Health

'Interfering' RNA helps monkeys recover from SARS

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Earth

Falling stars may cause rainy days

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Life

Tall women are more career minded

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Life

Is no-frills DNA the key to success?

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Health

Olive oil's benefits left on the shelf

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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.

Health

Editorial: Help soldiers out of harm's way

IS THE Iraq war another Vietnam? The debate will run and run, but on one level at least the answer is clear. The psychological damage done to American soldiers in Iraq is as bad, in terms of the proportion affected and the degree of harm, as anything Vietnam veterans endured. We have known about post-traumatic …

Opinion

Life

Is science held up by language shortfalls?

Opinion

Life

Saddle up the cloned sport horses

Opinion

Earth

Feared superweeds not so super after all

Opinion

Features

The rise of the house father

Life

The rise of the house father

HE used to get up at 6.30 am so he could shower, shave, put on his suit and be at his desk by 8. His day still starts at the crack of dawn. He still works for the most discerning and demanding of clients. But nowadays there is no suit, no desk and no real …

Features

Earth

Global warming: The flaw in the thaw

Features

Physics

Entropy: The new order

Features

Health

Keeping your nerves in order

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.

Recipe for a test tube generation

WITH a single advertising slogan in the 1930s – "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry" – US giant DuPont captured the public's attention and defined the heyday of a science. But those words have lost their impact today, and the chemistry sector has been having a hard time recently. Annual capital spending by major US …

Careers

Health

The word of the week is Zapoï

Regulars

Technology

Electrospun nanofibre garments fit perfectly

Books & Arts

Earth

An Ocean Odyssey by Stephen Wong and Takako Uno

Books & Arts

Space

Astronomical Enigmas by Mark Kidger

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

Fruit fly follies WHILE many geneticists make do with unpronounceable strings of letters and digits to name their discoveries, by tradition fruit-fly folk get to call them what they like. One of their better-known examples is Sonic Hedgehog , which came about when researchers ran out of real hedgehog names for a family of genes …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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