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8 April 1995

Issue 1972

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Symphony in chaos

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Seeds of our own destruction

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How to spot a killer cloud

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Banking on electronic money

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A syringe-full of poison helps the food go down

A PARALYSlNG toxin that can cause fatal food poisoning may help people who cannot swallow their food properly, according to American researchers. One in ten thousand people suffers from achalasia, a condition in which the ring-like sphincter muscle at the bottom of the gullet does not relax properly to let food into the stomach. Sufferers …

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Ancient stars tell of eternal expansion

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Technology

Netropolitan – Chain-Letters

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

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Technology

Do face creams go skin deep?

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Faint galaxies fill the void

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The secret life of muscles

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Arctic fossils may blight evolutionary tree

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Glowing handshake tells left from right

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Dangerous talk

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Dream craft flies on airbeams

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Crystal gazing

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Deficient data

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Stroke risks

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Polluted Channel

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Quest for the supershuttle

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FMS 'fix' offers safer cancer therapy

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Tough on dirt, kind on sculptures

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Drugs plea for tropical diseases

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How sex education fails French teenagers

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'Genetic' drunks need customised therapy

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Borneo's history in a handful of husks

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Charities lose out in lottery fever

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Cystic fibrosis drug

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The sea monster that never was

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Delhi rocked by sewer blast

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Lucky escape for ozone layer

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Green power blocks German plutonium plant

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Mountain gorillas fall prey to poachers' spears

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US left behind as Europe backs cuts

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Killer cells may be clue to HIV baby's recovery

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Cinderella gas lasts longest of all

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Pacific plankton go missing

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A lunatic way to count the cost

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Earth

World lays odds on global catastrophe

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Technology

Bone repairs spark regrowth

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Keep grumbling volcanoes at arms length

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The juice, the whole juice and nothing but the juice

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If the face fits, squeeze it

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Smart studs keep an eye on road conditions

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Plugging energy gaps in super lasers

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Netropolitan – Snail mail

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Opinion

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Cults for the rational

THE media in Japan are now reporting that police have found documents relating to the construction of nuclear weapons in buildings used by the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect (see Diagram). Previously, the police had uncovered laboratories and large stockpiles of chemicals that could be used to manufacture weapons. Information on such weapons, samples of Clostridium …

Opinion

Fishy answer

Opinion

Features

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Symphony in chaos

IMAGINE tuning in to your local radio station expecting Beethoven but receiving instead a carefully broadcast signal that sounds like static. Being curious, you measure the signal with an oscilloscope – it is a sequence of waveforms fluctuating seemingly at random. If you were a mathematician you might say these oscillations were chaotic. You'd be …

Features

Seeds of our own destruction

Features

How to spot a killer cloud

Features

Banking on electronic money

Features

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Enigma: Young and honest

THREE men and three women tell us the following facts. But beware that women who are less than 18 tell the truth whereas women of 18 or more always lie. And men who are less than 18 always lie whereas men of 18 or more always tell the truth. Anita: "Barbara and Chris are equally …

Forum

All change at the CSIRO … again

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Finnish forests and ministerial inertia

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Now, make your own April showers

Books & Arts

All the space that's fit to print

Books & Arts

Fear and loathing at the Smithsonian

Books & Arts

Testing red in tooth and claw: Subjected to Science

Books & Arts

Bugs and other biting beasts

Books & Arts

Waiting for the fall of software's aristos?

Books & Arts

Art practicals for beginners

Books & Arts

Who's holding the moral high ground?

Forum

Happy birthday, helium!

Forum

Baring the bones of human evolution

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

CYBERSPACE mythology has it that the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. Because it has no central control, the Soviets might have knocked out various bases, but they could never disrupt the system totally. There would always be a link or two left, however tenuous, and the Pentagon's messages would get through. How …

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