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Ray Kurzweil: Building bridges to immortality
INTERVIEW: 10:00 27 December 2010 | 13 comments
Make it to the year 2045 and you can live forever, the controversial futurist claims. So how's his personal quest for immortality going?
3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone
FEATURE: 11:00 26 December 2010 | 2 comments
You're about to travel into another dimension, in the comfort of your own living room. You might want to bring a sick bag
Placebos can work even when you know they're fakes
THIS WEEK: 14:04 23 December 2010 | 1 comment
Taking a placebo openly can improve irritable bowel syndrome, raising the question: what other diseases can it help?
'Impulsivity gene' found in violent offenders
13:06 23 December 2010
A gene mutation linked with impulsivity has been discovered in Finnish men convicted of violence crimes and arson
Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs
FEATURE: 11:02 21 December 2010 | 3 comments
Even doctors recoil from faecal transplants – but you might get over such squeamishness if it was your only hope of beating a killer infection
Is mitochondrial DNA the secret of prostate cancer?
16:15 20 December 2010
Fresh insight into prostate cancer has come in a study that shows the mitochondrial DNA of human prostate cancer cells are riddled with mutations
Autistic ability falters in real world
11:59 20 December 2010 | 3 comments
The astonishing knack of many children with autism to locate concealed on-screen symbols does not extend to real-world situations
Breastfeeding boosts schoolboys' brains, not girls'
11:51 20 December 2010 | 5 comments
Keeping baby boys on the breast for at least 6 months leads to a significant boost in educational performance at age 10
Call to reopen drug trial suicide investigations
18:01 16 December 2010
Bioethics researchers at the University of Minnesota say their colleagues in the psychiatry department should be questioned further
World's first animal-to-human transplant approved
UPFRONT: 13:59 16 December 2010
A treatment for type 1 diabetes in which pig cells are transplanted into humans is going on sale in Russia
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
Inside the stem cell wars
When a Nobel prize is up for grabs, do scientists across the globe compete on a level playing field? New Scientist investigates
FOOD AND DRINK
Eat less, live longer?
People trying to delay ageing by cutting calories may have a surprise in store