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2 June 1990

Issue 1719

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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.

How to score goals and influence people: The finals of the World Cup football championship begin next week, and each national manager is on trial. Two researchers from Liverpool can now provide the evidence to show why certain tactics suit certain teams

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.

How the World Cup conquers the blues

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.

Satellite Aid: Remote sensing began as a tool of war. Yet these same spies in the sky can alert the world to a coming drought, speed the movement of supplies during famine and even help to find water in deserts

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.

The making and breaking of a coral skeleton

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.

White death - the fate of a deserted coral

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.

Biochemistry of a special relationship: Coral reefs would not exist if there was not a special chemistry between the coral polyp and the green algae that live inside it

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.

The big sneeze

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.

Is sex too important to keep quiet about?

Features

Table of contents

News

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: Tests undermine nuclear accident strategy

THE conventional approach to dealing with a major nuclear disaster is being reconsidered urgently following a test simulating just such a scenario. Faced with a serious accident at a pressurised-water reactor whose core cooling system has failed and caused the fuel to melt, operators would traditionally attempt to reflood the core with water as soon …

News

Technology

Technology: Electricity switches plants onto new genes

News

Technology

Technology: After Concorde

News

Science: Did a Caribbean impact wipe out the dinosaurs?

News

Science: Methane may amplify climate change

News

Science: Some plants will like it hot in the global greenhouse

News

Science: Scientists make light work of night work

News

Science: Did the AIDS virus originate in chimpanzees?

News

Technology

Technology: Conference leaves high-definition TV up in the air

News

Technology

Technology: Neural network names niffs

News

Technology

Technology: Fields force fluids through tiny silicon pump

News

Technology

Technology: Japan's nuclear ship sets sail for the sunset

News

Technology

Technology: Long-distance musicians wired to play in unison

News

Fatty genes

News

Naval asbestos

News

Work on genome

News

Sharp start for Hubble

News

Gene screen

News

Animal inquiries

News

High-speed protest

News

Public opinion slows down Japan's nuclear plans

News

IAEA wants more nuclear power to combat global warming

News

Sarawak study disappoints rainforest campaigners

News

Compensation in doubt after 'lead-in-milk' verdict

News

French researchers wrangle over birth rate

News

Museum spells out job losses

News

Departing Red Army leaves its rubbish behind

News

American city puts animal rights on the rates

News

Pressure grows for US to act on global warming

News

Vet shortage 'increases risk of BSE in food chain'

News

HIV infections lead to rise in tuberculosis

News

Yellowstone lets the wolf through the door

News

Labour promises new deal for science

News

Inside Science: A bright idea - Making electricity

News

Inside Science: Electromagnetic waves - Making light work

News

Inside Science: Units of electricity and magnetism

News

Inside Science: Waves

News

Inside Science: Using electromagnetism

News

Inside Science: Outer space - Tuning in to the Universe

News

Opinion

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Comment: So, farewell then

BY TRADITION, this page of New Scientist has been anonymous. There are several reasons for this, the most important being that there is no reason why even one of more than half a million readers should have any interest in the views of the usual hacks who churn out these weekly rants. We break tradition …

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.

How to score goals and influence people: The finals of the World Cup football championship begin next week, and each national manager is on trial. Two researchers from Liverpool can now provide the evidence to show why certain tactics suit certain teams

OVER the next month, the number of soccer managers in the world is likely to increase to hundreds of millions. The new recruits will be seated in armchairs and the team that they manage will be on display a metre or so away on the television. Their team will be one of 24 playing in …

Features

How the World Cup conquers the blues

Features

Satellite Aid: Remote sensing began as a tool of war. Yet these same spies in the sky can alert the world to a coming drought, speed the movement of supplies during famine and even help to find water in deserts

Features

The making and breaking of a coral skeleton

Features

White death - the fate of a deserted coral

Features

Biochemistry of a special relationship: Coral reefs would not exist if there was not a special chemistry between the coral polyp and the green algae that live inside it

Features

The big sneeze

Features

Is sex too important to keep quiet about?

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.

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Whales, satellites and fruitful relations

IT MIGHT have been better if the now celebrated Miss Cordelia Gummer had been viewed by the television millions saving the whale rather than having some of her father's beef forced on her, demonstrably unwillingly. For John Gummer, the minister for agriculture, has been robust on the question of whales, and rightly: 'Norway's recent action …

Forum

The electromagnetic link

Inside Science

Forum: One of my days is missing - It's time to move the date line

Forum

Froum: And now for the ozone forecast / Should it become a regular event

Forum

Forum: So much rot - Death and decay all around

Forum

Review: Lord of the box

Books & Arts

Forum: Failed scientist makes good - Why do so few scientists reach positions of influence?

Forum

Forum: What do you do with a roomful of haiku? - The finer points of computer poetry

Forum

Review: Life in the age of radiation

Books & Arts

Review: On trial for reason

Books & Arts

Review: No holding the axe

Books & Arts

Review: Chemical myths management

Books & Arts

Review: A laboratory as large as a desert

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

IT'S good to know that, in the world of automation, there is still room for good old human error. After searching the jungle swamps around the launch pad near Kourou in French Guiana, the European Space Agency and Arianespace have found out why the 36th launch of their Ariane rocket failed. Flight 36 blew up …

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Regulars

Regulars

Letters

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