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• Editorial: Gambling on a more interesting scientific future

  Editorial p5

  The creative power of the scientific wager has been recognised for millennia – can you come up with a fun idea for a bet?

• Rethinking the great Apollo adventure

  Editorial p5

  Contestants in the forthcoming space race are more likely to be companies than countries

• Swine flu spread demands new tactics

  Editorial p5

  As pandemic flu replaces normal seasonal flu around the world, research into more affordable methods to combat H1N1 should be a priority

• What's hot on NewScientist.com

  Editorial > What's hot on NewScientist.com p5

• Cassavas get cyanide hike from carbon emissions

  News > Upfront p6

  One of Africa's most important food crops – which already has health risks attached to eating it – becomes more toxic as carbon dioxide levels climb

• Forest protection invites trouble for trees

  News > Upfront p6

  Keeping the loggers out of forests doesn't seem to displace deforestation, but the people protection attracts can be damaging in other ways

• IVF discounts beat cash rewards for research eggs

  News > Upfront p6

  "Egg sharing" offers a viable – and less controversial – alternative to paying women to donate their eggs for research

• Murder and suicide soar in the slump

  News > Upfront p6

  When employment fell by 3 per cent or more in one go, suicides grew 4.4 per cent and homicides by 6.0 per cent

• Green light for blue rose, Hubble hiccup, and more

  News > 60 Seconds p7

• Big nukes deal ignores security risk of small devices

  News > Upfront p7

  The US and Russia broker a deal to limit long-range nuclear warheads – but leave other crucial nuclear weapons untouched.

• Botnets could hijack your social security number

  News > Upfront p7

  Identity theft could be made easier as researchers show how easy it is to guess US social security numbers from publicly available information

• US stem cell science survives concerns over consent

  News > Upfront p7

  New federal funding for stem cell science will not shut down existing research avenues that many feared would not meet ethical standards

• Is your city prepared for a home-made nuke?

  News > This Week pp8-9

  Radiation from an improvised bomb could kill hundreds of thousands, but with the right preparation many might be saved

• "If I was in a family that had the familial form of Alzheimer's ... I would definitely be taking in 500 milligrams of caffeine a day"

  News > Soundbites p10

  Gary Arendash at the University of South Florida, on his study suggesting that coffee might reverse Alzheimer's memory problems (ABC news, 6 July)

• Swine flu sweeps the southern hemisphere

  News > This Week p10

  As the White House meets with state representatives to discuss preparations for the autumn flu season, the pandemic is intensifying in the other parts of the globe

• Phantom menace to dark matter theory

  News > This Week p11

  A subtle anomaly in the orbit of the planets in our solar system could prove a controversial idea that goes beyond Einstein

• Liver cells could be reprogrammed as insulin factories

  News > This Week p12

  Transforming human liver cells into something like the pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin could result in a one-off treatment for diabetes

• Undersea meadows in peril

  News > This Week p12

  A seagrass meadow the size of a football pitch is vanishing every 30 minutes, according to the first world-wide assessment of the problem

• Are lab grown human sperm the real thing?

  News > This Week p13

  If further tests can demonstrate that they are identical to naturally grown sperm, the artificial sperm could be studied in the hope of developing treatments for male infertility

• Good dancers make the fittest mates

  News > This Week p13

  Bad news for terminally uncoordinated males – men who can strut their stuff like John Travolta may be more likely to be strong and to produce healthy offspring

• Bad oral health increases risks from brain surgery

  News > In Brief p16

  It may be the last thing on your mind, but going to the dentist before you have brain surgery could save you from pneumonia

• Brain wiring creates false memories

  News > In Brief p16

  False memories don't exist, but the brain connections that give rise to them do – the finding raises the prospect of a test for witness reliability in legal proceedings

• Shrinking sheep 'defy' natural selection

  News > In Brief p16

  Climate change contributes to the mysterious shrinking of Soay sheep off the coast of Scotland

• Star's magnetic flips down to gassy neighbour

  News > In Brief p16

  The first magnetic flips to be observed in a star other than our own suggest the influence of an extremely close "hot Jupiter" planet

• Australia's dinosaur drought is ending

  News > In Brief p17

  The discovery of three large fossils in central Queensland is finally putting the continent on the dinosaur map

• Autism alters how kids sense motion

  News > In Brief p17

  How a new action feels is more important than how it looks for children with autism, possibly explaining why they find imitation tough

• Intelligent aliens could be out there... in droves

  News > In Brief p17

  There's no reason to believe that complex life in the universe is rare – as suggested by one major theory – in fact there may be many worlds with life like ours

• Vanishing cells reveal murder most foul

  News > In Brief p17

  Immune cells could reveal a more accurate way of determining if a stab wound was inflicted before or after death

• Black boxes to get back-up battery

  Technology > News p19

  Flight recorders are key to finding out the cause of an air crash, but sometimes turn out blank – but now there is a fix

• New transistors to reduce need for 'wall warts'

  Technology > News p19

  Non-silicon-based transistors will make power adaptors small enough to fit inside your laptop – and save energy too

• 'Smart' house texts you if there's a problem

  Technology > News p19

  Buildings that learn occupants' habits could slash heating and lighting bills, and send out a warning if a door or window is left open

• James Dyson: Inventing the Wright way

  Technology > Feature pp20-21

  The engineer and entrepreneur tells Paul Marks about his inventive inspirations, his return to robotics, and how 3D printing could lead to open-source inventing

• Cyborg crickets could chirp at the smell of survivors

  Technology > Feature p22

  If you're trapped in rubble after an earthquake, the last thing you want is an insect buzzing around your face, but if a Pentagon plan comes off, that insect could save your life

• Military mega-lasers are too hot to handle

  Technology > Feature p22

  High-energy laser weapons have been hailed as the future of anti-missile defence, but they may be further from being battle-ready than military chiefs hoped

• California: No longer the Golden State?

  Comment and Analysis pp24-25

  The US state is in a fiscal hole, and without a radical overhaul of its constitution, the world may lose a unique cradle of innovation, says Peter Aldhous

• Do crabs have rights?

  Comment and Analysis pp24-25

  Including crustaceans in animal welfare law would be a mistake, argues Peter Fraser

• Apollo special: Brian Eno's moon music

  Opinion > Interview p25

  In 1983, Brian Eno released an album inspired by Apollo 11 – now it has been reworked for its first live performance

• Due gravity

  Letters p26

  According to Michael Brooks, we don't know what gravity is. However, in 1992 I proposed a theory to explain its...

• Remote viewing

  Letters p26

  I found Richard Wiseman's Twitter experiment to determine whether remote viewing – the psychic ability to "see" distant locations – was real...

• Enigma Number 1553

  Opinion > Enigma p26

• Scientific economics

  Letters pp26-27

  It amuses me that in Mark Buchanan's article "Can science fix economics?" it is suggested that "it should be possible within a decade to"...

• Antimatters

  Letters p27

  Perry Bebbington's idea of an antimatter universe, receding in time from the big bang goes back at least to...

• For the record

  Letters p27

  Our article on the role of science in the verification of nuclear weapons failed to make it clear that North Korea left the 1968 Nuclear...

• Praise bee

  Letters p27

  In his report on animal species that appear to have numeracy skills, Ewen Calloway says: "The ability to count may date"...

• Train gain

  Letters p27

  Your article "Trains recast as climate baddies" discusses the relative emissions of different modes of transport. I note with interest that...

• Trials of woman

  Letters p27

  You state in your article "Trial inequality" that women are under-represented in clinical trials of cancer drugs, yet do not give any explanation as...

• Useless ID

  Letters p27

  Not only patients whose fingerprints have been degraded by the cancer drug capecitabine are embarrassed by US immigration procedures. Playing jazz...

• What can DNA tell us? Place your bets now

  Opinion > Essay pp28-29

  Scientists from Newton to Hawking have settled differences by putting their money where their mouth is. Now Lewis Wolpert and Rupert Sheldrake are continuing the tradition – and you can too

• Apollo special: What if man had stayed on the moon?

  Features > Cover Story p30

  Even before the dream of a lunar landing had been realised, the Apollo project's funding was cut. Things could have been very different...

• Apollo special: It's the solar system, stupid

  Features > Cover Story pp31-32

  Rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts revolutionised our thinking about Earth and its peers, says Dana Mackenzie

• Apollo special: Mirrors on the moon

  Features > Cover Story pp32-33

  Reflectors planted on the lunar surface may provide the first cracks in Einstein's theory of gravity, says Stuart Clark

• Apollo special: Another small step

  Features > Cover Story pp33-34

  Astronaut, cosmonaut or taikonaut? Greg Klerkx asks whose footprints will be next

• Apollo special: The loneliest museum

  Features > Cover Story pp35-36

  There is a plethora of must-see sites for future lunar tourists. Linda Geddes is your guide

• Apollo special: Welcome to Lunarville

  Features > Cover Story pp36-37

  Henry Spencer ponders where we'd be now if the Apollo programme hadn't been cancelled

• Dawn of the animals: Solving Darwin's dilemma

  Features > Feature pp38-41

  A series of extraordinary discoveries over the past decade has transformed our ideas about the evolution of early animals, and of the world they lived in

• Parasitic worms: Just what the doctor ordered?

  Features > Feature pp42-45

  Hookworms, whipworms, and flukes are generally bad news, but if you suffer from allergies or asthma they could be a blessing in disguise

• The biologist who broke the Berlin Wall

  Histories pp46-47

  Janos Vargha's campaign against to stop construction of a dam on the river Danube brought communist hardliners to their knees – and set the scene for the raising of the Iron Curtain

• Review: Chasing Medical Miracles by Alex O'Meara

  Opinion > Books & Arts p48

  Millions of people around the world seek cash rewards by becoming guinea pigs in trials of experimental drugs, and many of them are ill and vulnerable

• Review: Shortlist for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2009

  Opinion > Books & Arts p49

  Who will win this year's Royal Society Prize for Science Books? Amanda Gefter hedges her bets

• Terrible telly

  Feedback p68

  This week's Feedback reveals the deadly perils of a TV set, a plant that only flowers for an instant, and a new unit for climate change scientists to use…

• Touchy feely

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p69

• On the spike

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p69

• One small footprint?

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p69