Название: New Scientist №2768 (10 июля 2010) / US
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Язык: английский

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Peace must reign in space
Barack Obama's new stance on space weapons is a welcome U-turn
Rule out nothing in the investigation of cancer
The US is right to include mathematicians, physicists and engineers in its effort to fight cancer
The joy of Facebook
Despite privacy concerns, most people think the benefits of social networks outweigh the risks
Debate over gender disorder drug
An experimental drug for preventing "abnormal" genitalia in girls has raised ethical issues in the US
Russian spy ring hid secret messages on the web
The spies recently apprehended by US authorities used a digital twist on the ancient technique of steganography for covert communications
Reclusive mathematician turns down $1 million prize
Mathematician Grigori Perelman may have turned down a million dollars after winning a Millennium prize, but six more are still up for grabs
60 Seconds
Nuke smugglers in the US, Dutch criticism of the IPCC, depression and dementia, and more
Microwave universe: Planck's first hi-res image
The Planck telescope gives us a view of the oldest light in the universe, with a tenfold increase in resolution over the last telescope
Rio hopes of conservation cash were never met
A huge new database of international aid finance reveals that donor nations have not honoured their 1992 Earth Summit declarations
US cellphone expansion could deafen radio astronomers
A plan to expand the wireless spectrum could pull the curtains further over radio astronomers' window on the sky
Star wars: a new hope for arms control in space
The regulation of space weapons and satellite interceptors is back on the US agenda, but will everyone agree before Earth is caged in orbiting junk?
Antibody cuts brain damage in strokes
An antibody that binds to certain brain receptors could reduce the side effects of a common stroke drug and buy additional time in which to use it
Gene switches sexual desires of female mice
Female mice lacking a vital enzyme reject the advances of males and attempt to mate with other females instead
Wanted: little levers to probe the quantum divide
We could probe the boundaries of the divide between the quantum and everyday-scale worlds by "entangling" two simple, tiny levers
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming - if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
and more