Название: New Scientist №2767 (3 июля 2010) / US
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Make every animal experiment count
A proposal to allow quotas instead of the current system that allows whaling for "scientific purposes" has collapsed

'Climategate' jibes fly over El Niño impact on warming
It turns out El Niño may not have had such a large effect on recent climate change as a controversial paper published last year suggested

Gulf oil spill poses unique health challenges
How the oil and the clean-up will be making people sick in body and mind for years to come

US obesity keeps on rising
Eight US states now have more than 30 per cent of adults who are obese, up from four a year previously

60 Seconds
Ovarian transplants for menopausal mice, the real Moby Dick, organic superspuds and more

Closet delay means shuttles set to fly on into 2011
NASA's venerable space shuttles will almost certainly keep flying into 2011, now that delays on the ground seem likely to postpone the last two flights

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK
The 20-point checklist should help researchers work without needlessly and unethically wasting live animals

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK
The 20-point checklist should help researchers work without needlessly and unethically wasting live animals

Obama declares war on space junk
US will share data with other countries to prevent satellite collisions and fund research to clean up existing junk

Superhuman performance could betray sport drug cheats
A new strategy asks: "Is this physiologically possible without the aid of drugs?"

Fossilised cell blobs could be oldest multicellular life
At 2.1 billion years old, the 12-centimetre-long fossils from Gabon are 200 million years older than the previous record-holder

Ghostly, flowing supersolid? No, it's quantum plastic
What seemed to be frictionless flowing solid – one of the weirdest predictions of quantum mechanics – may in fact be a squishy quantum plastic

If you've got great genes, it pays to be extrovert
Extroverts are born not made, they say. But what if we tailor our personalities to our surroundings to make the most of our genes?

On the origin of species – by means of pheromones
The discovery of a mutation that could lead to two new species of moth provides a much-needed example of a specific genetic change leading to speciation

Tutankhamen 'killed by sickle-cell disease'
A new interpretation of pathological evidence from the boy king's mummy suggests he succumbed to an inherited blood disorder

Cosmic bubble made cold spot in big bang afterglow
Such bubbles might have formed just fractions of a second after the universe came into existence, when it grew dramatically in size