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20 April 1996

Issue 2026

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Faster than a speeding brain

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The case of the missing core

Features
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Downhill all the way

Features
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Atoms through the looking glass

Features
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Space

Illogical Captain: The physics of Star Trek

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.

Technology

Technology : Bidding opens for first high-definition TV broadcasts

Boston PEOPLE in Washington DC will soon be able to watch the world's first digital high-definition TV broadcasts. Domestic HDTV sets will not go on sale until late 1998, so the trial transmissions will only be available on demonstration receivers installed in public buildings and shopping malls. James McKinney, the director of the Model HDTV …

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Technology

Netropolitan

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Technology

Technology : Chemical cocktail clogs illegal drug kitchens

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Technology

Technology : Killing flames softly with a fine mist

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Technology

Technology : Oral vaccines boost first line of defence

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Technology

Technology : Running dust pollution to earth

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Technology

Technology : Spring-loaded chips bounce back

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Technology

Netropolitan

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Science : Comet bids farewell with blaze of X-rays

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Science : A role at last for mad cow protein

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Science : Beam's heart of darkness keeps to the straight and narrow

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Technology

Technology : Cancer drug slows runaway cells

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Technology

Technology : Pesticide molecule leaves a lasting impression

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Children make music in the old fashioned way

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Overweight mums put babies at risk

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Sea Empress oil pollutes Ireland's sandy shores

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France wakes up to mad cow risk . . .

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. . . as US takes close look at deaths from brain disease

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Mystery malady claims Florida's gentle giants

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In brief : Shrinking star puts on firework display

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In brief : Cryptic climbdown

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In brief : Test of time

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In brief : Needle victory

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In brief : Scraping the barrel

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In brief : TV makes kids fat

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Not in front of the children

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Seal hunters out for the count

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Science : Time capsules older than the Earth

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Science : Crippled HIV could do you good

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Science : When half a brain is better than one

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Science : Aphids battle for a tiny patch of sap heaven

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An everyday story of laboratory folk

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Disarmament reaches record level

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Ivory towers must invest in teachers

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Soaps and credit curb Brazil's population growth

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Russian secrecy could sink nuclear aid

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Opinion

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Editorial : Russia's dangerous game - WESTERN governments are getting increasingly nervous about Russia's nuclear legacy—and so they should be. The secretive ways of the Soviet era have re-asserted themselves in a struggle that threatens not just Ru

WESTERN governments are getting increasingly nervous about Russia's nuclear legacy—and so they should be. The secretive ways of the Soviet era have re-asserted themselves in a struggle that threatens not just Russia's political future but the safety of the whole world. In Moscow this week, Norwegian and Russian environmentalists will release a report on the …

Opinion

Soapy science for the small screen

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.

Faster than a speeding brain

TEST pilots at NASA push human performance to its limits. They must climb into untried, high-performance aircraft and fly them at high speed while taking them through complex test procedures. To stay alive they need the ultimate mental edge. And to help gain that edge, NASA pilots have a trade secret. Before taking a new …

Features

The case of the missing core

Features

Downhill all the way

Features

Atoms through the looking glass

Features

Space

Illogical Captain: The physics of Star Trek

Features

More

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 871 : Pandigitals

UNCLE JOE had written the digits 0 to 9 on ten cards, some red, the others blue, one digit per card. "Now boys," he said, "you have to arrange the red cards on the table to form a number, and divide the blue cards into two groups to form two separate numbers. The `red' number …

Forum

Review : Before the Web

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : No whitewash for a Forth disaster - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Antipodes : Research students at the coal face - Ian Lowe investigates a new training scheme in New Zealand

Forum

Forum : Hybridisation rules OK!

Forum

Review : Tiger on the wing

Books & Arts

Forum : Fantasy funding league - Richard Collingridge discovers some disturbing spending priorities

Forum

Review : Lost in plants

Books & Arts

Review : Green iconoclasts

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Out of the African forge

Books & Arts

Review : God was here

Books & Arts

Review : Dead silence

Books & Arts

Review : Tell it like it is

Books & Arts

Review : Ecomystics

Books & Arts

Review : The straight dope on dinosaurs

Books & Arts

Review : False start

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

KNOWING about nasty genetic traits—or having your insurer know about them—may not be such a bad idea after all. At least, that's what Ian Taylor, the junior minister for science and technology, tried to tell a House of Commons select committee when he was discussing how genetic information should be monitored and regulated. "You may …

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Feedback : The Last Word

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