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Review: Time by Eva Hoffman
BOOKS & ARTS: 22:00 15 October 2009
From physics to biology to neuroscience, the many faces of the mysterious dimension are poetically explored
Was moon-smashing mission doomed from the start?
18:55 15 October 2009 | 10 comments
Weeks before NASA's LCROSS mission hit the moon on Friday, some scientists predicted the impact might not be visible, and others questioned the mission's logic
Laser creates false memories in fly brains
18:19 15 October 2009 | 1 comment
Flies with brains genetically engineered to respond to light learned to avoid certain smells as if they had experienced pain
Today on New Scientist: 15 October 2009
18:00 15 October 2009
Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how the birth of a mountain chain caused a mass extinction, the first observation of "magnetricity", and proof that your bullying boss really is an idiot
Approaching footsteps boost seeing in the dark
18:00 15 October 2009
The sound of something getting closer increases the sensitivity of the visual part of your brain – before you're even conscious of hearing it
The year's best pictures from the world of medicine
GALLERY: 17:13 15 October 2009
See all 19 winners of the 10th Wellcome Images awards for images of medicine, social history, healthcare and biology.
Birth of the Appalachians triggered mass extinction
IN BRIEF: 15:29 15 October 2009 | 8 comments
The birth of the US mountain chain may have led to a major ice age and a mass extinction
Sea anemone stings make a 'hypodermic' skin cream
15:03 15 October 2009 | 10 comments
Stinging cells can be used as tiny needles to inject drugs into the skin – sea anemone face creams should be available to buy next year
It's official: Your bullying boss really is an idiot
14:28 15 October 2009 | 26 comments
Psychologists show that people turn nasty when influence and incompetence collide
US steel-makers temper climate deal hopes
THIS WEEK: 14:17 15 October 2009 | 18 comments
Lobbying has led to Congress considering tariffs on developing nations, which could be a deal-breaker at December's climate change talks in Copenhagen
Kew seed bank has 10% of all plants – and counting
UPFRONT: 07:00 15 October 2009 | 11 comments
The Millennium Seed Bank has reached its initial target of collecting 10 per cent of the world's known wild plant species
'Magnetricity' observed for first time
21:28 14 October 2009 | 27 comments
Just as the flow of electrons produces electrical current, streaming magnetic 'charges' generate magnetic current – nano-scale computer memory could be on the horizon
Today on New Scientist: 14 October 2009
18:00 14 October 2009 | 1 comment
Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how your smartphone could rat you out, the first shots fired in the war on booze, and some very creepy macaques
'Matrix for mice' probes how mental maps are made
IN BRIEF: 18:00 14 October 2009 | 8 comments
Virtual reality created specially for mice could help explain how the brain creates internal maps
Richard Leakey: Passionate, prickly and principled
INTERVIEW: 18:00 14 October 2009 | 8 comments
After a distinguished career studying human evolution, he quit to fight for conservation in Africa. The two decades since haven't softened him
What shook up Saturn's rings in 1984?
THIS WEEK: 18:00 14 October 2009 | 36 comments
Something disrupted the rings 25 years ago, creating a pattern like the grooves on a vinyl record – and the mystery is only getting deeper
WHO launches worldwide war on booze
THIS WEEK: 18:00 14 October 2009 | 63 comments
Alcohol abuse is the fifth leading cause of premature death in the world today. Now the World Health Organization is trying to stamp it out
The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out?
COVER STORY: 18:00 14 October 2009 | 18 comments
Navigator, accountant and secretary in one, it knows more about you than you think – and will spill its secrets to anyone who has ways of making it talk
First black hole for light created on Earth
17:13 14 October 2009 | 68 comments
An electromagnetic black hole has been built in a lab – and may one day be adapted to generate limitless solar energy even on a cloudy day
Macaques are creeped out by cyber-selves
THIS WEEK: 14:47 14 October 2009 | 26 comments
Robots that look too human-like are eerie, the so-called "uncanny valley". It turns out that monkeys find their CGI counterparts every bit as freaky
Virtual workforce found in Kenyan refugee camp
FEATURE: 14:23 14 October 2009 | 8 comments
Crowd-sourcing may help bring the hard labour of the digital economy to those in desperate need of money
Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded
THIS WEEK: 14:05 14 October 2009 | 60 comments
An attention deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may make psychopathic people seem fearless
Butterfly is pupae-sniffing cradle-snatcher
12:21 14 October 2009 | 6 comments
Some males sit on the pupae of female butterflies for up to 10 days before they hatch, to get first dibs at mating with them – but how do they know it's a female in there?
Don Eigler: Two decades of nanotech
INTERVIEW: 10:23 14 October 2009 | 17 comments
The pioneer who wrote "IBM" using 35 xenon atoms in 1989 tells New Scientist how nanotech is progressing
Astronomers clash with US air force over laser rules
22:29 13 October 2009 | 33 comments
Lasers pointed at the sky help focus telescopes, but the air force is concerned they could blind Earth-observing satellites
