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Issue: 09/10/2010

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No. 2781

• Biodiversity trumps 'nature' in the Gulf

  Editorial p5

  When it comes to Louisiana's coastal ecosystem, engineering has more to offer than letting nature run its course

• How to stay ahead of the future

  Editorial p5

  Science is amazingly fecund. Our survey of new ideas shows there's no prospect of a let-up

• Anti-dengue mosquitoes to hit Australia and Vietnam

  News > Upfront p6

  Mosquitoes infected with bacteria that stop them transmitting dengue fever will be released into the wild next year

• Census of Marine Life reveals extent of ocean mystery

  News > Upfront p6

  Ten years, 1200 new species and 9000 days at sea – but there are still at least 750,000 species waiting to be discovered

• Grey wolf hunt creates bitter row in US

  News > Upfront p6

  Idaho and Montana's controversial hunts are at the centre of a legal battle over the once-endangered species

• US congress clears private space taxis for lift-off

  News > Upfront pp6-7

  The House and Senate have reached a détente over NASA's future, boosting support for commercial space flight

• 60 Seconds

  News > 60 Seconds p7

  US admits syphilis scandal, rockoon busts Romanian record, baby born from 20-year-old embryo, and more

• Call for ban on codeine

  News > Upfront p7

  The widely used painkiller has variable and sometimes even lethal effects, and should be taken off the shelf, say Canadian researchers

• Physicists win Nobel using sticky tape and pencil

  News > Upfront p7

  Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have won the Nobel prize for discovering graphene, the atom-thick sheets of carbon graphite with exotic properties

• Vatican objects after IVF pioneer wins medicine Nobel

  News > Upfront p7

  Robert Edwards of the University of Cambridge has scooped the prize for developing in vitro fertilisation

• Louisiana revival: Eco-engineering on a giant scale

  News > Special Report pp8-10

  The bays and bayous of coastal Louisiana were in trouble even before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. How far should we go to return them to their former glory?

• Forget a climate deal – we need a carbon police first

  News > This Week p12

  There may be no deal on carbon emissions at the upcoming United Nations summit because those emissions cannot yet be measured accurately enough

• New route to stem cell therapy opens up

  News > This Week p12

  A breakthrough in turning adult skin cells into stem cells without the need for embryos gets round a major safety obstacle

• First frictionless superfluid molecules created

  News > This Week p13

  Chill them enough and some atoms creep up walls or through tiny cracks. Now superfluid molecules have been made too

• Daily choices can affect long-term happiness

  News > This Week p14

  Your family values, weight and even your partner's neuroticism can have a significant effect on long-term happiness

• Antibody reverses final throes of cancer in mice

  News > This Week p15

  A treatment has shown promise against the final stages of cancer in mice, giving hope that it might one day prevent secondary tumour growth in people

• How to find out if exo-Earths host life

  News > This Week p15

  The space mission needed to find out if Gliese 581 g has life has been shelved, but other habitable worlds will offer better views in the next decade

• Have gene findings taken the stigma from ADHD?

  News > In Brief p16

  A genetic explanation for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder emerges, weakening the blame put on parenting and food additives

• Meet the oldest dino ancestor yet

  News > In Brief p16

  Footprints left by a dinosaur ancestor show the animals were around earlier than previously thought

• Sun's activity flies in face of climate expectations

  News > In Brief p16

  If new satellite data can be trusted, changes in solar activity warmed the Earth when they should have cooled it

• Video highlights best candidates for IVF

  News > In Brief p16

  A model that can predict which early-stage embryos are most likely to develop into a fetus may increase the success rate of IVF treatment

• Black widow pulsar is fattest collapsed star yet

  News > In Brief p17

  New measurements of pulsar B1957+20 bust predicted limits for how big a neutron star can get before collapsing into a black hole

• Quantum thermometers usher in the big chill

  News > In Brief p17

  In the quantum world, simply measuring temperature can cool things down

• Thighs and abs have a different take on fat

  News > In Brief p17

  Fat cells in the stomach get bigger to store fat, thigh cells increase in number. The degree to which this occurs may make you an apple or a pear

• Trademark swimsuit gave penguin ancestors the edge

  News > In Brief p17

  Adopting black and white garb may have given the giant ancestors of today's penguins a vital extra turn of speed

• Extreme PowerPoint places you in 3D slide show

  Technology > News p21

  Microsoft's new presentation technology LightSpace allows users to touch and play with projected virtual items in three dimensions

• Nokia touchscreen creates texture illusion

  Technology > News p21

  Imagine a smartphone with apps you can feel. Nokia is working on the prototype

• You too can have a perfect body – in your movies

  Technology > News p21

  Tweaking someone's height and weight on film has till now been a laborious frame-by-frame business – but new software makes it easy

• The green city that has a brain

  Technology > News pp22-23

  An eco-city in Portugal that its makers are aiming to build by 2015 takes its cues from the nervous system

• Audio zoom picks out lone voice in the crowd

  Technology > News p24

  Sports broadcasters can now zoom in to almost every sound that's made on the field

• Online army turns the tide on automation

  Technology > News p24

  Computers can take jobs away from people, but thanks to Amazon's Mechanical Turk workforce, humans are fighting back

• Tea Party luring US into adventures in irrationality

  Comment and Analysis pp26-27

  Compared with what may be in store for the US, George W. Bush's administration looks positively friendly to science, says Chris Mooney

• Stuxnet: the online front line

  Opinion > Comment and Analysis pp26-27

  Forecasts of cyberwar have been dismissed as hype, but the worm running rampant through Iran's nuclear facilities suggest otherwise, says Paul Marks

• LHC chief: Finding nothing 'would be interesting'

  Opinion > Interview p27

  As things hot up at the Large Hadron Collider, Sergio Bertolucci tells of what lies ahead for the world's largest atom smasher

• Complex inheritance

  Letters p28

  Evelyn Fox Keller expresses dismay at the persistent rejection of the answer "neither nature nor nurture, but both" to the perennial debate setting one against...

• Presenting statistics

  Letters p28

  Linda Geddes states that the first time DNA evidence was challenged in a UK court was during the trial of Sean Hoey for the 1998...

• Stop the tide

  Letters p28

  Among the ideas Stephen Battersby discussed for limiting sea level rise was the option of flooding inland basins (18 September, p 40). Yet he neglected...

• Enigma Number 1616

  Opinion > Enigma p28

• Food-chain reactions

  Letters pp28-29

  It was interesting to read that cane toads have not had a devastating impact on Australian wildlife as was initially feared (11 September, p 18...

• For the record

  Letters p29

  • Due to an editing error, we incorrectly stated that the power consumption of a cold-chain refrigerator is less than a clock radio (18 September...

• Glass-flowing

  Letters p29

  A recent debate on your pages about whether one can observe the flow of glass, given time (12 June, p 27, and 24 April, p...

• Happy winner

  Letters p29

  One explanation for the finding that an income of $75,000 is sufficient for maximum day-to-day happiness, while overall life satisfaction continues to...

• Oestrogen overload

  Letters p29

  Andy Coghlan discusses the rise in the number of white girls in the US reaching puberty at the age of 7, suggesting oestrogen-like chemicals...

• Oil perspective

  Letters p29

  Mick Hamer's article on the danger of oil pollution from sunken ships (4 September, p 34) and the uncharacteristically histrionic editorial on the same...

• Straight sets

  Letters p29

  In Richard Elwes's otherwise excellent article on the arithmetical implications of the concept of infinity (14 August, p 34), it is suggested that a...

• Unspotted animals

  Letters p29

  I tried to spot the animals hidden in the picture accompanying your article on a new technology used to camouflage images, but I was foiled...

• Prodigy psychologist: The gifted child's curse

  Interview pp30-31

  You may think that for a "gifted" child, the world is their oyster – but Joan Freeman explains that the label has as many negatives as positives

• 50 ideas to change science: Earth

  Features > Cover Story pp32-41

  From wipe-outs in life's deep history to future dead oceans, Earth sciences have no shortage of apocalyptic visions to offer

• 50 ideas to change science: Ecology

  Features > Cover Story pp32-41

  If you think evolution is just about individuals passing on their genes to offspring, get set for a radical reweaving of the web of life – and finance

• 50 ideas to change science: Genetics

  Features > Cover Story pp32-41

  After the genome, it's time for the next level: the interactome and phenome. Expect biotech wizardry and a stream of Jurassic Park headlines along the way

• 50 ideas to change science: Neuroscience

  Features > Cover Story pp32-41

  Thanks to better brain imaging and biological insights, we're closing in on the neurons of consciousness and the subtleties of our mental machinery

• 50 ideas to change science: Artificial life

  Features > Cover Story pp32-41

  Cells, enzymes, photosynthesis – soon we'll be remaking life our own way. Not to mention making our own spare body parts, and taming flu once and for all

• Eating Skippy: Is kangaroo the kindest meat?

  Features > Feature pp42-45

  Can kangaroo meat's green credentials convince a dedicated veggie to turn kangatarian? New Scientist goes hunting for an answer

• Unweaving the cosmic web: Relativity goes large

  Features > Feature pp46-49

  We're on the verge of being able to see the structure of the entire universe. That could help us go beyond Einstein's masterwork, says Pedro Ferreira

• The man who knows how to get The Last Word

  Opinion > Books & Arts p50

  Jon Richfield has answered so many Last Word questions that readers think New Scientist must have made him up. We talk to the man behind the name

• Visions of toxic industrial splendour

  Opinion > Books & Arts p51

  From the paraglider vantage of photographer Kacper Kowalski, Poland's polluted industrial landscape has a strange beauty

• 2010 Ig Nobel prizes: the winners

  Feedback p64

  Ig Nobel special: bat sex (again), the beard hazard, the truth about socks over shoes, whale snot, and more

• And in, and out

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p65

• Physician, heal thyself

  The Last Word > Last Word Answer p65

• Shout it out

  The Last Word > Last Word Question p65