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• Reasons to be optimistic for the future

  Editorial p3

  The world may appear to be going to hell in a handcart, but appearances can be deceptive

• What's hot on NewScientist.com

  Editorial > What's hot on NewScientist.com p3

• Durians and booze: worse than a stinking hangover

  News > Upfront p4

  There may be something in the Asian folk belief that consuming durians and alcohol together is a bad idea

• Insurance cover comes under fire

  News > Upfront p4

  Affordable insurance is criticised for encouraging the building of homes in fireprone areas

• Olympians should be screened for silent heart problems

  News > Upfront p4

  Studies carried out for the International Olympic Committee suggest athletes be screened for potentially lethal heart conditions

• Rain of meteorites makes the moon hum

  News > Upfront p4

  The moon is ringing due to a barrage of tiny meteorite impacts, though the noise isn't loud enough to stymie future missions to peek at the lunar core

• Honey beats MRSA, land of rising cuts, and more

  News > 60 Seconds p5

• Climate change depresses beer drinkers

  News > Upfront p5

  The quality of hops is falling because of rising temperatures

• Moon's heat hastened Indian probe's demise

  News > Upfront p5

  Indian space engineers wrongly assumed that Chandrayaan-1's orbit would be cooler than it was

• Pfizer to pay huge fine for improper drug promotion

  News > Upfront p5

  The pharmaceutical giant will pay $2.3 billion to settle charges of improper drug promotion - but will it change anything?

• New look at Alzheimer's could revolutionise treatment

  News > This Week pp6-7

  Inflammation and worn-out blood vessels rather than plaques may be behind Alzheimer's

• Antarctica's hidden plumbing revealed

  News > This Week p8

  The first complete map of the lakes beneath Antarctica suggests the icy continent's secret water network is more active than we thought

• Black holes are the ultimate particle smashers

  News > This Week p8

  Particles approaching a black hole event horizon collide at energies way beyond those of accelerators on Earth, and could reveal new physics

• Velociraptor's 'killing' claws were for climbing

  News > This Week p10

  Biomechanical analysis shows this dinosaur's claws were better suited to climbing trees than ripping its prey apart

• World will 'cool for the next decade'

  News > This Week p10

  We could be about to enter a decade or two of cooler temperatures, says one of the world's top climate modellers

• Don't be fooled: Swine flu still poses a deadly threat

  News > This Week p11

  Hospitals could be overwhelmed even though only a small proportion of people with pandemic H1N1 flu quickly become seriously ill

• Not tonight honey, I haven't taken my statins

  News > This Week p12

  High cholesterol levels could prevent women from becoming sexually aroused

• Snort stem cells to get them to brain

  News > This Week p12

  Stem cells could be inhaled to treat neurological conditions

• Methane mining could trigger killer gas cloud

  News > This Week p14

  A rush to extract methane from the depths of Africa's Lake Kivu could trigger a huge upwelling of suffocating gas, potentially affecting over 2 million people

• 'Extinct' British resident repatriated after 100 years

  News > In Brief p16

  The shorthaired bumblebee is to be reintroduced to the UK from New Zealand

• Fatty foods foil fat-fighting cells

  News > In Brief p16

  Healthy muscle cells exposed to fat can become like cells taken from people with diabetes, with the genes that control fat-burning permanently switched off

• Potato blight has the genome of death

  News > In Brief p16

  The genome of the potato blight mould has many variants of genes to make enzymes which kill potato cells

• Saturn's moon Titan has a foggy bottom

  News > In Brief p16

  The sighting of methane fog in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan shows Earth is not the only solar-system body with a 'hydrological' cycle

• Carrots better than sticks when it comes to cooperation

  News > In Brief p17

  When people paying into a common fund can be either rewarded or punished depending on how generous they are, the reward option works better

• Eyes see trouble coming before brain notices

  News > In Brief p17

  A type of cell just discovered in the retinas of mice can detect an approaching object without the brain's help

• Hot on the trail of the mysterious monopole

  News > In Brief p17

  Two experiments on strange stuff called spin ice provide the best evidence yet that lone north or south magnetic poles really exist

• Warmer climate could make succulent meat a memory

  News > In Brief p17

  As the world warms, pork chops will become soggier and paler - and steak smellier

• Get to grips with an extreme fastener

  Technology > News p19

  German engineers have used the hook-and-loop concept from Velcro to build a metal fastener capable of securing building facades

• Plot and graphics not paramount in videogame success

  Technology > News p19

  Storylines and state-of-the-art graphics may matter less than getting the price right when it comes to designing a hit

• Rat robot to get human brain transplant

  Technology > News p19

  The team that used rat brain cells to control a small robot intend to replace them with human ones

• Cargo spaceship meets the catcher in the sky

  Technology > Feature pp20-21

  A new breed of uncrewed spacecraft may make it easier and cheaper to keep space stations supplied with life's essentials

• Smart implants may alleviate neurological conditions

  Technology > Feature p21

  As initial trials of implants to treat epilepsy come to an end, researchers are asking if brain activity data could be used to treat a variety of other conditions

• Airborne laser ready for flight tests

  Technology > Feature p22

  The US military's missile-defence laser is taking to the air for its first full-power try-out

• How to short-circuit the US power grid

  Technology > Feature p22

  Attackers could cause a cascade of failures in the US west-coast electricity grid by targeting seemingly unimportant substations

• Museums are key to saving biodiversity

  Comment and Analysis pp24-25

  Natural history collections of plants and animals not only tell us about the world as it was, they can also help shape its future, says Richard Lane

• The real Turing test: learning to say sorry

  Comment and Analysis pp24-25

  It's high time to apologise for mistreating computer guru Alan Turing and turn him into a Great Briton

• Finding a diabetes cure

  Opinion > Interview p25

  Stem cell pioneer Doug Melton speaks about the future of his field and his success in creating insulin-producing cells from skin cells

• Keep on trucking

  Letters p26

  The ideas for efficiency improvements in trucks described by Phil McKenna are welcome - if late (15 August, p 34). However, the realities of road haulage...

• Enigma Number 1562

  Opinion > Enigma p26

• Home grid

  Letters pp26-27

  Clive Semmens discusses the practicalities of producing electricity in your home (18 July, p 27). These vary from country to country. Here in Jamaica, I...

• Assault on battery

  Letters p27

  Proponents of the electric car studiously avoid discussing the problem of refuelling (18 July, p 42). If we want electric cars to have anything like...

• Climate for caring

  Letters p27

  In his thought-provoking essay, George Marshall suggests that action on climate change is going to be difficult to achieve until the population has a...

• For the record

  Letters p27

  • It was Miguel Nicolelis's group at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who implanted electrodes into the brains of macaque monkeys (29 August, p...

• Prawns in pain

  Letters p27

  In his letter (15 August, p 23), Peter Carr challenges research showing that hermit crabs feel and remember pain (11 July, p 24) on the...

• MythBusters: 'Using your head is a lot of fun'

  Interview pp28-29

  Can a lead balloon fly? Can a dental filling pick up radio stations? We talk to the people who investigate urban legends for a living

• Blueprint for a better world

  Features > Cover Story pp30-31

  Humanity is facing some serious challenges but there is plenty we can do. New Scientist takes a look at some radical ideas for transforming the world for the better

• Better world: Beware of common sense

  Features > Cover Story p32

  If governments are serious about achieving their aims, they must base their decisions on hard evidence and not received wisdom

• Better world: Legalise drugs

  Features > Cover Story pp32-33

  Far from protecting us, the war on drugs is making the world a much more dangerous place

• Better world: Big thinkers, big ideas

  Features > Cover Story p33

  We asked prominent thinkers and doers what they reckon will make the world better

• Better world: Give police your DNA

  Features > Cover Story p34

  A quarter-century after genetic fingerprinting was first developed, we're still arguing about whose DNA profiles police should keep on file. The only fair, effective answer is: everybody's

• Better world: Redefine the bottom line

  Features > Cover Story pp34-35

  Governments need to find better ways of measuring progress than simply looking at wealth

• Better world: Find out if we can cool the planet

  Features > Cover Story pp34-35

  We need to do our homework rather than simply assume geoengineering can stave off disaster

• Better world: Tax carbon and give the money to the people

  Features > Cover Story p36

  Goods should be taxed to reflect the damage they do to the planet, with revenues redistributed to society

• Better world: Learn to love genetic engineering

  Features > Cover Story p37

  The technology environmentalists love to hate really could play a big role in saving the planet

• Better world: End the pillaging of the high seas

  Features > Cover Story p38

  We must put a stop to the free-for-all out on the oceans to have any chance of saving their riches from the ravages of climate change

• Better world: Take Friday off… forever

  Features > Cover Story pp38-39

  The four-day week could boost employment, save energy and make us happier

• Better world: Generate a feed-in frenzy

  Features > Cover Story p39

  Paying people who generate green energy and feed it back to the grid is the best way to boost uptake of renewable energy

• Space robot 2.0: Smarter than the average rover

  Features > Feature pp42-45

  Wanted: intrepid individuals to explore new worlds. Must be able to work unsupervised. Humans need not apply

• Icy stares and dirty minds: Hitch-hiking emotions

  Features > Feature pp46-47

  Complex emotions may have emerged from basic physical sensations like cold or disgust

• Review: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

  Opinion > Books & Arts p48

  Creationists won't be wooed by logic, however eloquent, and they certainly won't be swayed by condescension, says Randy Olson

• Review: Connected by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler

  Opinion > Books & Arts p49

  Our social networks have a more profound influence on us than we realise - so choose your friends carefully

• Review: The Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal

  Opinion > Books & Arts p50

  Evidence continues to show that animals (including humans) are naturally cooperative - so why do we cling to the idea that nature is "red in tooth and claw"?

• Winners of New Scientist's science book competition

  Opinion > Books & Arts p50

  We asked readers what popular science book still needs to be written - check out the five winning ideas

• Peripatetic port plans

  Feedback p72

  Why Dublin, Ireland and Corby in the UK are really one and the same, how to kill an iPod with a dog, and where to buy a recycled ballerina

• Shrink-wrapped

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p73

• Three's a crowd

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p73

• MythBusters challenge

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p73