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• Earth will be OK, but for us it's not so good

  Editorial p3

  What will happen to our planet and to humanity if we consume ourselves back to the Stone Age?

• Nobel prizes for the 21st century

  Editorial p3

  The verdict of leading scientists is clear: we need to rekindle the spirit of Nobel's great legacy

• What's hot on NewScientist.com

  Editorial > What's hot on NewScientist.com p3

• A good year for Africa's farmers, but worse to come

  News > Upfront p4

  Farming yields in sub-Saharan Africa are the best in years, but a bleaker future awaits under climate change

• 'Poetic' autism film divides campaigners

  News > Upfront p4

  A short film that suggests autism breaks apart families and relationships is causing a spat between people with autism and a charity

• Rocket racers look for new home

  News > Upfront p4

  After failing to build hangars the Rocket Racing League loses its lease on planned headquarters in New Mexico

• Whales trailed from safe haven to supermarket shelf

  News > Upfront pp4-5

  A forensic study of whale meat bought in Japanese supermarkets shows that protected animals are being caught

• 60 Seconds

  News > 60 Seconds p5

  US Senate takes on climate, grizzlies under protection again, a breast cancer mystery and more

• Computer detects abuse earlier than doctors

  News > Upfront p5

  Victims of domestic abuse can hide the truth from doctors, but they leave signature tracks in their medical records that a computer program has now detected

• DNA tests show TB killed mummy

  News > Upfront p5

  What killed Dr Granville's mummy? The cause of death of an Egyptian mummy has puzzled pathologists for almost 200 years – now we have the answer

• T. rex: dead for want of a dentist

  News > Upfront p5

  Could an oral hygienist have extended the life of many a Tyrannosaurus rex?

• Experts call for Nobel prizes to be revamped

  News > This Week pp6-7

  New Scientist asked a group of leading scientists to debate the future of the Nobels – the outcome is an open letter calling for a radical modernisation of the prizes

• How astronauts could 'harvest' water on the moon

  News > This Week p8

  A NASA design would zap the frigid lunar soil with microwaves and collect the resulting water vapour

• Mammoth black holes push universe to its doom

  News > This Week p8

  The raging disorder within the dark powerhouses at the centre of most galaxies may be bringing the heat death of the universe closer

• Illegal toxic waste spotted from space

  News > This Week p9

  Move over Erin Brockovich – today's environmental detectives can use radar, helicopters and satellites to spot illegal waste dumps

• Brain implants fail because they cut nerve links

  News > This Week p10

  Coating them in drugs that stop this happening could make permanent neural prosthetics for paralysed people a reality

• What should we make of the HIV vaccine 'triumph'?

  News > This Week p10

  At last, a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine has worked – sort of. New Scientist takes a look at what this means for the worldwide fight against AIDS

• Sedatives may slow recovery from trauma

  News > This Week p12

  Giving sleeping pills to soldiers and earthquake victims is common practice, yet it could be doing more harm than good

• No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world

  News > Special Report pp14-15

  The world could become 4 °C warmer in our lifetime – bringing hunger, deforestation, drought and floods

• Feathered dinosaur older than earliest bird

  News > In Brief p17

  The record for the oldest feathered dinosaur, which has stood since discovery of Archaeopteryx, has fallen to an older fossil unearthed in China

• Green roofs save on carbon overheads

  News > In Brief p17

  Load your roof with vegetation and cut the planet's carbon burden

• How young rats learn: once bitten, twice shy

  News > In Brief p17

  When young rats start exploring on their own, their brains undergo fundamental changes that let them remember bad experiences

• Lack of sleep linked to Alzheimer's

  News > In Brief p17

  Sleep deprivation in mice causes more plaques to form in their brains - an insomnia drug reduced the amount of plaque-forming protein

• Asian quake could trigger California's big one

  News > In Brief p18

  Powerful earthquakes 700 and 8000 kilometres away are known to have weakened the San Andreas fault

• Concepts form in the hippocampus

  News > In Brief p18

  Brain regions have been identified that allow us to organise the world into separate concepts

• Cosmic rays reveal erupting volcano's guts

  News > In Brief p18

  Subatomic particles reveal how much magma was blasted out of a volcano in Japan

• India's thirst is making us all wet

  News > In Brief p18

  One nation is extracting so much groundwater that its run-off ends up lapping on all our shores

• A sprinkling of nanotubes makes plants shoot up

  Technology > News p21

  Adding carbon nanotubes to synthetic soil makes tomato seeds sprout sooner and the seedlings grow faster

• Latest videos makes Google Earth cities bustle

  Technology > News p21

  Data from traffic and weather cameras can be used to bring the usually lifeless cities of virtual Earth programs to life with people, cars and weather

• Think yourself a sharper TV picture

  Technology > News p21

  Just tell people they are watching in high definition and they'll say the picture is sharper even when it's not

• Virtual world disputes heading for real courtrooms

  Technology > Feature pp22-23

  With eye-popping sums at stake in the virtual economy, intellectual property disputes are being fought in the real world

• Aid agencies turn to open-source software

  Technology > Feature p23

  Free and open-source software activists tap student coders to write software for disaster relief

• Portable pain weapon may end up in police hands

  Technology > Feature p24

  The US military's latest non-lethal weapon is designed to cause a burning sensation to repel people without causing physical harm

• My book is mine, not Google's

  Comment and Analysis pp26-27

  The search giant says it just wants to give people access to out-of-print works, but its plans to scan millions of books are unfair to authors, says Jeff Hecht

• Peter Zahler: Saving Afghanistan's wildlife

  Opinion > Interview p27

  The country has become synonymous with human conflict, but there's another battle going on – for its biodiversity

• Dealing with drugs

  Letters p28

  Of the many reasons you discussed for legalising drugs, the most compelling is that by doing so we could improve public safety (12 September, p...

• Red response

  Letters p28

  I was intrigued by Daniel Elkan's article on how people react to the colour red (29 August, p 42...

• Enigma Number 1565

  Opinion > Enigma p28

• Climate predictions

  Letters p29

  Charles Lansdale wonders why we should believe predictions about climate change 50 years into the future when computer modellers sometimes fail to accurately predict the...

• Feeling warmer

  Letters p29

  Contrary to the research that relates cold drinks to a less friendly and warm impression of a person (12 September, p 46), I have found...

• For the record

  Letters p29

  • Harry Truman, of course, only won one presidential election (15 August, p 5). The first time round he succeeded Franklin Roosevelt after the latter's...

• Less than appy

  Letters p29

  I'm disappointed that New Scientist, which should surely be editorially independent, sees fit to dedicate an entire five pages and front-cover billing to...

• No DNA database

  Letters p29

  Clare Wilson thinks having a national DNA database is a good idea (12 September, p 30...

• Old fat

  Letters p29

  Jo Whelan's article about brown adipose tissue (BAT), which converts food calories to heat (15 August, p 38), reminded me of my communications with...

• Spending my money

  Letters p29

  Dave Riddlestone (15 August, p 22) tells us that the defence community argues that "global warming research is a funding cash cow"...

• The Science party

  Letters p29

  In part 1 of the "Blueprint for a better world" (12 September, p 30) it is argued that in politics "so-called common sense and"...

• Washing water

  Letters p29

  Brian Wootton need not wait for washing machine manufacturers to go back to producing dual-inlet goods to make the most of his solar water...

• Aimee Mullins: Two legs good, 24 legs better

  Interview pp30-31

  The actress, model, athlete and double amputee tells how technology is changing the way society views people with physical impairments

• Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us

  Features > Cover Story pp32-35

  If our civilisation collapses, what will happen to the planet itself? The best way to work that out is to look back at the Earth's past

• Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet

  Features > Feature pp36-39

  There's a lot more to green technology than wind farms. From more efficient aircraft to thread made from chicken feathers, we pick out the best ideas

• My little zebra: The secrets of domestication

  Features > Feature pp40-43

  Killer rats and cuddly foxes? Thanks to an experiment that began in Russia 50 years ago, we could be about to teach old animals some new tricks

• Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space

  Features > Feature pp44-47

  The solar wind has died to a ghost of a breeze, so what's stirring up our satellites? A global study suggests it could be Earth's own atmosphere

• Review: Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon

  Opinion > Books & Arts p48

  A collection of biographical sketches of notable hypochondriacs shows the disorder stems from a basic misunderstanding of the body

• Review: Comets and the Origin of Life by Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe and William Napier

  Opinion > Books & Arts p49

  Interstellar panspermia – the idea that we are all ETs – is spelled out in semi-technical rather than popular form

• Review: Don't Be Such a Scientist by Randy Olson

  Opinion > Books & Arts p49

  Scientists could learn a lesson or two from Hollywood when it comes to talking to the public – plus Olson's five top tips for communication in his own words

• Review: Fireflies, Honey, and Silk by Gilbert Waldbauer

  Opinion > Books & Arts p49

  A meander through the insect world, with an obvious love for the subject cascading from the pages

• Keith Tyson: 'Nature is better at painting than I am'

  Opinion > Gallery p50

  See what happened when the Turner prize-winning artist let nature do his job for him

• Pharma chameleons

  Careers > The Insider pp52-53

  Drug companies are trying to improve their image by donning ethical colours. Is it convincing, and how can you decide which of them to work for?

• Multidimensional hair dye and dog whispering

  Feedback p72

  The new trend for fractal hair dye, an important message for dogs, and a chance for you to win a trip to the Darwin celebrations

• On a high

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p73

• Net loss

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p73

• Repulsive advertising

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p73

• Whispering trees

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p73