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CONTENTS
Vo lume 205 No 2753
NEWS 5
EDITORIAL Bats are worth safeguarding, too
6
UPFRONT Private space flight price promise,
COVER STORY
Loony moons
Ki ller UK pollution, Youth tobacco crackdown
8
THIS WEEK Green vice follows green vi rtue, Why hot water
From weird
freezes faster, Slow thinking and creativity,
walnuts to flying
Insects get Machiavel lian,
saucers, meetthe
16 IN BRIEF Orang-utans go fishing, Semen kills
real wonders of
rival sperm, To lose weight, eat bacteria
the solar system
19 TECHNOLOGY Cars' suspect software, Quantum cameras, Babbage's com puter reborn - on the nanoscale
Cover image NikAinley
OPINION 24 Unethical lab coats Mahmood Bhutta explores the damage done by unthinking purchases
24 Florida's crisis Is a plan to save the Everglades
Scared, stiffed
too credit-crunched to work, asksjeff Hecht
25 One minute with... joel Morgan, pi rate-fighting environment ministe r of the Seychelles
Inside the most
26 LETTERS To rture and terror, Earth's l ife support
brazen computer
28 The world's a lab "Natural experime nts" can
fraud ever to come to court
help us understand history, say ja red Diamond andjamesA, Robinson
FEATURES 32 Loony moons (see rig ht) 38 Scared, stiffed (see ri ght) 42 Murder i n the bat cave Something is killing America's bats - but what?
46 Insulation nation Cutting carbon emissions from draughty old homes is a prio rity, Here's how to do it
REGULARS 26 ENIGMA
Coming next week Your amazing brain
50 BOOKS &ARTS Reviews Do we know enough about our neurology to work out how much free will we
New insights into the
have? On genius, string theory and fish welfare Interview Sociologist William Sims Bainbridge on the real-world lessons from
workings of the mind
World of Worcroft
56 FEED BACK Eating Peter Rabbit 57 THE LAST WORD Moonwatching for sceptics 54 JOBS & CAREERS
Thinking with our bodies
PLUS Cars that drive
Even the most abstract thoug hts
themselves
are rooted in our physical selves
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