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• Closing the art-science culture gap in a digital world

  Editorial p3

  The time is ripe for projects that fuse perceptions from art with those of science

• The eye was evolution's great invention

  Editorial p3

  A new study of the eye may well be quoted by creationists – but in fact it dovetails perfectly with Darwinian evolution

• What's hot on NewScientist.com

  Editorial p3

• Dark matter claims thrown into doubt by new data

  News > Upfront p4

  Previous claims that dark matter had been detected in labs on Earth are being called into question by a powerful new experiment

• Deepwater Horizon: scrutiny falls on blowout preventer

  News > Upfront p4

  A record of reliability will not stop the device at the centre of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster from being intensely investigated

• Overfishing began with the Victorians

  News > Upfront pp4-5

  European fishery stocks fell by over 90 per cent between the 1880s and 1970, suggesting that short-term fishing limits will fail to restore stocks now

• 60 Seconds

  News > 60 Seconds p5

  US federal funds for popular stem cell line, why African Americans get sleepy rather than drunk, IPCC jury panel named, and more

• First cancer vaccine approved for use in people

  News > Upfront p5

  The prostate cancer vaccine offers modest benefits but paves the way for immune-based approaches to fighting other cancers

• UN peacekeepers stage great ape escape in Congo

  News > Upfront p5

  Four young gorillas have been airlifted to safety from a region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they were at risk of being poached

• What would it take to put a walking robot on the moon?

  News > Upfront p5

  A group of Japanese companies wants to land a bipedal robot on the moon by 2015, but the mission will be no walk in the park

• Designing leaves for a warmer, crowded world

  News > This Week pp6-7

  The genetic controls of leaf shape could allow us to boost crop yields, meet the challenge of feeding the world and adapt to climate change

• Did we evolve a special ability for catching cheats?

  News > This Week p8

  Psychological testing suggests that we owe our astonishing brainpower to our need to recognise cheating

• Elusive tetraquark spotted deep in forest of data

  News > This Week p8

  The existence of the tetraquark – a particle made of four quarks – looks increasingly likely with a fresh sighting in the debris of a Japanese particle accelerator

• Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein

  News > This Week p9

  Haemoglobin is one of the first proteins from a long-dead organism to be resurrected in a living cell - Neanderthals are sure to follow suit

• The deep roots of genetic disorders uncovered

  News > This Week p9

  A study of gene evolution looking back half a billion years could help uncover the genetic basis of many disorders, including Down's syndrome

• Baffling quasar alignment hints at cosmic strings

  News > This Week p10

  Gigantic kinks in the fabric of space-time could explain a weird alignment in the light from distant bright galaxies that has long puzzled astronomers

• Evolution gave flawed eye better vision

  News > This Week p12

  It looks wrong, but the strange, "backwards" structure of the vertebrate retina actually improves vision

• 'Mirror gene' clue to brain's right-to-left links

  News > This Week p12

  Why does the left side of the brain control the right side of the body? A gene provides some clues

• Is Halley's comet an alien interloper?

  News > This Week p13

  Our sun may have stolen the vast majority of its comets from other stars, new computer simulations suggest

• Artificial muscle material springs forth

  News > In Brief p15

  Super-elastic molecules that stop our muscles from overloading have been copied and could be used in synthetic replacement body parts

• Earth's twisted heart changes the length of the day

  News > In Brief p15

  Fluctuations at the core subtly shift the planet's rotation over a six-year cycle

• Rumbles hint that Mount Fuji is getting angry

  News > In Brief p15

  Rocks ejected by previous eruptions are helping geologists figure out what the volcano's internal plumbing looks like

• Turbocharge stem cells to repair bone

  News > In Brief p15

  Mice with broken legs healed three times faster than normal thanks to a protein that triggers stem cell division

• Cell social network reveals rogue cancer switches

  News > In Brief p16

  They say it's not what you know, it's who you know – the same is true for the gene switches that turn on cancer cells

• Even silent videos excite the listening brain

  News > In Brief p16

  Silent videos of a person playing a musical instrument stimulate auditory regions of the brain

• Melting icebergs boost sea-level rise

  News > In Brief p16

  Ice cubes don't increase the water level in your cup as they melt, so why are melting icebergs raising the oceans?

• Moon fountains could answer astronaut's watery wishes

  News > In Brief p16

  Dust plumes kicked up by electrical forces inside craters at the lunar poles could help future prospectors spot water and resources from deep below

• Become a wage slave to software

  Technology > News p19

  If you've ever joked about your boss being a robot, stop laughing – they soon could be

• Face-saving software rescues bad snaps

  Technology > News p19

  Software that knows what your friends and family are supposed to look like can fix blurry photos of them

• Oil slick fight continues with robots and fire

  Technology > News p19

  As oil slick drifts near to the Louisiana coast efforts continue to clear spill and shut off the flow of new oil

• Web science: Exploring the network without guesswork

  Technology > Feature pp20-21

  From political uprisings to social life, the web encompasses much of human interaction – so it's about time for some academic scrutiny

• Innovation: The Wi-Fi database that shamed Google

  Technology > INNOVATION p21

  Without telling anyone, Google's cars have been cruising the streets gathering details of private Wi-Fi networks

• Cuddly robots aim to make social networks child-safe

  Technology > Feature p22

  Interactive "social robots" called Petimos may soon be helping to protect children when they make friends on social networks

• Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore

  Technology > Feature p22

  Conventional wisdom says that wave farms must be more than 2 kilometres away from the coast, but a new analysis suggests otherwise

• Economic recovery needs psychological recovery

  Comment and Analysis pp24-25

  Most people aren't touched by the recession, but they spend as though they are – they need convincing that things will get better, argues Stephen Lea

• Bertrand Piccard: Flying around the world on sunlight

  Opinion > Interview p25

  After the successful test flight of his solar-powered plane, the aviation pioneer explains how hypnosis and yoga will help him fly across the Atlantic

• Island reborn

  Letters p26

  In discussing the conservation management of Cousin Island (24 April, p 36), Graham Lawton says the island was bought from "the Seychelles royal family" in...

• Journal for rejects

  Letters p26

  In her letter on the ability of the peer-review process to effectively challenge scientific dogma, Deepa Coleman notes that "there is no such person"...

• Search-engine power

  Letters p26

  James Clarage's calculations of Google's energy usage assume that all their "nearly a million" servers do is perform searches (3 April, p 20...

• Tired to death

  Letters p26

  In your compendium on human endurance, Graham Lawton asserts that there are no records of a person having been killed by intentional sleep deprivation (17...

• Enigma Number 1594

  Opinion > Enigma p26

• Military innovation

  Letters pp26-27

  Ian Gilbert cites many examples of how civilian life has benefited from military scientific advances (17 April, p 25) but he misses a subtle point...

• Brain box

  Letters p27

  Miroslav Hundak states that physical changes in the brain create variations in conscious experience, proving that consciousness must be controlled by the physical properties of...

• For the record

  Letters p27

  • Contrary to the caption for the map in our article on mass extinction, Jersey is one of the Channel Islands, and is not part of...

• Grumpy or honest?

  Letters p27

  Wendy Zukerman reports that old folks might be grumpier than younger people because their brains have a reduced ability to cope with stress (10 April...

• Solar payback

  Letters p27

  In calculating the payback times for investment in alternative energy systems (27 March, p 46), Ed Douglas used an erroneous assumption. He stated, for example...

• Wasted efforts

  Letters p27

  In his article about last month's brainstorming session in Washington DC over nuclear waste-disposal, Phil McKenna wrote that the "world's leading experts"...

• The imperfect universe: Goodbye, theory of everything

  Opinion > Essay pp28-29

  The quest for an ultimate theory is driven by the same urges as religion – we should stop searching for nature's hidden code, says Marcelo Gleiser

• Harmonious minds: The hunt for universal music

  Features > Feature pp30-33

  We're born with a taste for music – but is it hard-wired or determined by the culture we live in?

• Trig shots: The secret of perfect pool

  Features > Feature pp34-35

  A little mathematical know-how can help you spot the best shot – and pull off a 39-ball combo

• Seven wonders of the quantum world

  Features > Cover Story pp36-37

  Quantum physics delights in demolishing our intuitions – here are seven of its most intriguing paradoxes, from bomb detectors to supersolids

• Quantum wonders: Corpuscles and buckyballs

  Features > Cover Story pp37-38

  Light is both a particle and a wave – and we're starting to prove that everything else is too

• Quantum wonders: The Hamlet effect

  Features > Cover Story pp38-39

  To be decayed or not decayed, that is the analytically unsolvable question

• Quantum wonders: Something for nothing

  Features > Cover Story p39

  They might not stick around for long, but particles that pop in and out of existence could gum up nano-machines

• Quantum wonders: The Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-tester

  Features > Cover Story p40

  You can use quantum trickery to shine light on a light-triggered bomb – and stay safe a guaranteed 25 per cent of the time

• Quantum wonders: Spooky action at a distance

  Features > Cover Story p41

  Reality, free will or the speed of light? One's got to give, because quantum mechanics says you can't have them all

• Quantum wonders: The field that isn't there

  Features > Cover Story p41

  You have to think about where an electromagnetic field isn't, as well as where it is, as far as particles are concerned

• Quantum wonders: Nobody understands

  Features > Cover Story p42

  Paradoxes are only conflicts between reality and your feelings of what reality ought to be

• Quantum wonders: Superfluids and supersolids

  Features > Cover Story p42

  Forget radioactive spider bites and exposure to gamma rays, it's quantum theory that gives you superpowers

• Art meets science: When worlds collaborate

  Opinion > Books & Arts p43

  Scientists and artists are venturing into each other's territories – New Scientist asks why, and explores the challenges facing these collaborations

• Art meets science: Reuniting the severed cultures

  Opinion > Books & Arts pp44-45

  The barriers between the two cultural giants are breaking down – art historian Martin Kemp explores what a new coming-together could mean

• Art meets science: A curator who wants to open windows

  Opinion > Books & Arts p45

  Kathleen Soriano explains what she looks for in a sci-art collaboration, and what it means to have art on the top line

• Art meets science: Aesthetics, politics and metaphysics

  Opinion > Books & Arts pp46-47

  Good sci-art collaborations help us understand science at a deeper level, but many go astray, argues artist and critic Jonathon Keats

• Art meets science: Physicist in a cultural landscape

  Opinion > Books & Arts p47

  David S. Berman wants to bring string theory to the art world – but with sensory effect, not just as a mathematics-free exposition of science

• Art meets science: Speaking a lingua digica

  Opinion > Books & Arts p48

  Stephen Wilson explores digitisation in art, how it helps artists to collaborate with scientists, and why some things can't be digitised

• Art meets science: Catch up with the state of the art

  Opinion > Books & Arts pp48-49

  New Scientist's pick of the fruits of art-science collaborations on display around the world

• When Alan met Alan

  Feedback p64

  the paper by Al et Al, the only safe way to light a candle, and why evolution is "the greatest hoax on Earth", apparently

• Stirring stuff

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p65

• Cold rush

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p65