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CONTENTS
Volume 205 No 2754
NE WS 3 4
COVER STORY
EDITORIAL Geoengineering must win our trust
Frontiers of the mind
UPFRONT Sustainable fish farming, Nan osate llite clears space junk
6
THIS WEEK Who decides when to hack the planet? Runaway
The mysteries
star sowed seeds of solar system, Co unting
of your brain are
swine flu's dead, Genetic mask could treat
being unravelled
wasting muscle, Howthe brain constructs moral ity, Asian pollution goes global 9
IN SIGHT Wh ere wil l US nuclear waste go now that the Yucca mountain plan is scrapped?
12 IN BRIEF Archoeopteryxeyes preferred dark skies, J unk food "addicts" are exactly that.
Cover image Bryan Christie
T rex had family down under 15 TECHNOLOGY Bionic control for paralysed l i m bs, Pointillistic computer graphics, Google undermines the great fi rewa ll's foundations
OPINION 20 All at sea? Exploiting Scotland's tides
38
Moon rivers Well, not quite, but it's a lot wetter
is not worth the energy, says Hans van Haren
than we thought
20 Searching secrets Even simple web queries cost the Earth, warns James Clarage 21 One minute with ... Francisco Ayala, geneticist and winner of the El million Templeton prize 22 LETTERS Accidental origins, Mi crobes are us 24 Novelist Ian McEwen Why climate change is at the heart of his new book Solar, and why men shouldn't pee at -40·C
FEATURES 26 Frontiers of the mind (see right) 34 Really smart cars Vehicles that drive themselves are safer, cleaner and make better use of precious road space - so where are they? 3B Damp side of the moon (see right)
Coming n ext week
REGULARS
Everything, explained
22 ENIGMA
O ne si mple i dea at the
42 BOOKS &ARTS Gallery exclusive Stephen Hawking, sketched
root of rea lity
by a robot artist for New Scientist 43 Reviews Tales of our relationship with insects, Approach happi n ess indirectly, Facts and frauds
Warmi ng, not melti ng
4B FEEDBACK It's all gravy
"Glacial plumbing" may be protecting
49 THE LAST WORD Moody booze
Greenland's ice against the onslaught
44 JOBS & CAREERS
of global warming
PLUS Trave l desti natio ns with a scie ntific twist
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