All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Microsoft finds holes in secret encryption key, market stall science, and a gallery of pestilence
Microkillers: A gallery of pestilence
They are microscopic, beautiful and deadly too. Organisms responsible for the demise of millions of people down the generations have been turned into art
Female genital mutilation becomes less common in Egypt
Legislation is finally helping to reduce the numbers of girls undergoing traditional genital mutilation in the north African country
First successful prediction of an underwater eruption
Watch the aftermath of an undersea volcanic eruption that was forecast from previous activity
Market stall science: Wake up and smell the cocoa
Wendy Zukerman heads to the market place to learn the science of chocolate, bread and instant ice cream
Microsoft finds holes in top-secret encryption key
The Advanced Encryption Standard, used to protect US government secrets, is less secure than we thought
Famine-struck Somalia faces cholera outbreak
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years - now Somalia faces an outbreak of cholera too
The Apprentice winner: Win for the geeks
The Apprentice winner Tom Pellereau talks to New Scientist about how to turn your inventions into business success
Datacasting: What will you buy tomorrow?
Jim Giles and Peter Aldhous put a new breed of number-crunching forecasters to their toughest test yet - predicting sales of New Scientist
Mammals caught on candid camera
The first global study to use camera traps to assess mammal populations has obtained 51,000 animal photos. See the best
Need to block a coffee ring? Send in the torpedoes
There's now a way to stop the pesky coffee ring effect, which causes paints and inks to coat surfaces unevenly
Internet databases reveal new uses for old drugs
Trawling online drug and gene databases has helped identify drugs that work against illnesses beyond their original use
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