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20 July 1991

Issue 1778

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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.

Radio sans frontieres: By the mid 1990s, people driving across Europe should be able to tune into their favourite radio programmes in hi-fi wherever they are

Features
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Dating the first American: When did people first enter the New World? Clues from distinctive rock art may push the date back by thousands of years

Features
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The quarks that fell to Earth: A form of matter predicted bytheory has never yet been produced in particle accelerators. Does 'strangematter' really fall to Earth from deep space?

Features

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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.

Science: Ancient bacteria eliminate nasty niffs

A team of researchers in Japan has discovered that a group of micro-organisms can prevent animal manure from giving off methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Archaebacteria, which differ from ordinary bacteria, in their biochemical constituents, have been found to reduce the amount of methane produced by between 45 and 65 per cent. 'The bacteria can …

News

Science: Superconductivity 'theory' proves a dud

News

Technology

Technology: Filters provides traps for catching viruses

News

Technology

Technology: Magnetic fields raise fuel efficiency

News

Technology

Technology: Atom-mover opens era of nanoelectronics

News

Technology

Technology: Milk yields up ally in fight against tooth decay

News

Technology

Technology: Digital circuits give a sound that gets around

News

Technology

Technology: Keeping a check on radiation in the home

News

European firms 'lack environmental strategy'

News

Science: Einstein ring sets puzzle for astronomers

News

Science: Electron microscope reveals chemical secrets of atomic structures

News

Science: Volcanic dust fails to block eclipse experiments

News

Fungus threat to Brazil's 300 million cocoa trees

News

Brussels wages war on 'prison zoos'

News

Blowout blights future of Hawaii's geothermal power

News

G7 gets a roasting on environmental record

News

Mollusc confirms dating of oldest known plank

News

Clarke rejects criticism of Herstmonceux sale

News

Conservation chief quits in protest

News

Bid for drug test recognition sparks laboratory accreditation row

News

Britain raises the threshold for action on dioxins

News

Japan's researchers feel the pinch of financial neglect

News

Opinion

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Comment: Labour's cloudy vision

In one year's time, if the opinion polls are right, Britain may well have a Labour government. And that could mean good news for science. The party's science manifesto Pushing back the Frontiers, published last month, promises a cornucopia of goodies for the research community, including a generous increase in funding. Neil Kinnock has been …

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.

Radio sans frontieres: By the mid 1990s, people driving across Europe should be able to tune into their favourite radio programmes in hi-fi wherever they are

Imagine driving the length of Britain, over the Channel and across Europe, listening all the time to the same radio station. The sound is in digital stereo, which gives it the same quality as that from a compact disc. There is no interference, and none of the fading and fluttering that normally blemish reception as …

Features

Dating the first American: When did people first enter the New World? Clues from distinctive rock art may push the date back by thousands of years

Features

The quarks that fell to Earth: A form of matter predicted bytheory has never yet been produced in particle accelerators. Does 'strangematter' really fall to Earth from deep space?

Features

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Forum: Oh ye of too much faith - Donald Gould turns his anger on astrology

I have been astounded to discover that the celebrated scientist and psychological guru, Hans Eysenck, is willing to believe that our lives may be regulated by the motion of the planets. Or, to put the matter shortly, that he harbours a sneaking faith in astrology. Perhaps his nearest and dearest, and close colleagues have known …

Forum

Forum: A bit of a flap - When it came to cats, Newton had it easy

Forum

Thistle Diary: Comment from Westminister - Support for nuclear energy

Forum

Review: Passing on the knowledge

Books & Arts

Arts: Fly for yourself

Books & Arts

Review: Partworks for young mathematicians

Books & Arts

Review: Not a drop to drink

Books & Arts

Review: Hope for the rainforests

Books & Arts

Forum: The uninformed conception - How much childless women are told about in vitro fertilisation

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Talking Point: Forensic science needs open minds

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Regulars

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Ariadne

There are fashions in words, of course, and science has its own trendy lot. ('Trendy' itself is or was a fashionable word, come to that.) 'Paradigm' is, I think, the latest, though it seems to fading now. For some time I have been trying to work out a version of the hit song in the …

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