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Volume 205 No 2747
NEWS 5
EDITORIAL Revolution ahead for
6
UPFRONT Tuna pirates, Cancer drugs
8
THIS WEEK
COVER STORY
space exploration
The star that shouldn't be
and antid epressants don't mix
An "impossible"
Space 2020:what NASA will do next. Ai r
stellar explosion
turbu lence aids quantum communication,
opens a new
Chromosome caps presage brain's decline, Health inequalities begin in child hood, Floral
window on the
heating, Dementia gene boosts IQ, Earth's
early cosmos
earli est movers 14 IN BRIEF Hazards of "third-hand" smoke, Bug's
assassin tactics, Beer is good for your bones
Cover image Tim Gra vestock
17 TECHNOLOGY
Smart talking software, Drive-by-wi re caught i n the headl ights, Designs o n cellphone security
Healing touch
OPINION 22 New Nobels or not? F i nd out the Nobel
Foundation's verdict on pleas for extra Nobel prizes from a panel convened by New Scientist
The secret to
on the big future of biomedicine
organs is to get
23 One minute with... Nobel laureate Pa u l Nurse,
growing new
24 LETTERS Ta lking to aliens, One wife or ma ny?
all touchy-feely
26 Feathered-fossil hunting China's leading
dinosaur expert, Xu X i ng, has named more species of dinosaurs than anyone else alive
FEATURES 28 The star that shouldn't be (see right) 32 My big fat geek wedding What happens to
our bodies when we say "I dc'? There was only one way to find out." 36 The healing touch (see right) 40 Martian sheen Are shiny boul ders on Mars our
best evidence yet for l ife on the Red Planet?
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REGULARS 24 ENIGMA
44 BOOKS & ARTS
Reviews Reclaiming unhappiness from psychiatry's grip, God vs messy genomes,
Message from the caves
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before civilisation
Why monogamists need big brains, 46 Interview Jeremy Rifkin explains why his new
book sees us morphing i nto Homo empothicus
Brain paradox
64 FEEDBACK Teacup tube-map, Aspects of "ph"
When a "dementia gene"
65 THE LAST WORD Warm paws in the snow
makes you smarter
48 JOBS & CAREERS
PLUS Jane Goodall on half a century saving the wilds
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