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31 October 1992

Issue 1845

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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.

Who cares about malaria?: The annual sickness toll from

Features
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Why the Chancellor is always wrong: No one takes the

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Up the starry chimney: Some stars throw out a blanket of

Up the starry chimney: Some stars throw out a blanket of

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.

Revolt of the industrialists: The captains of industry believe that the country's future depends on them having a greater say in how government funds research

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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.

Patents: Pyramid city

A team of nine engineers working for Shimizu Construction in Tokyo has filed a British patent application (2 251 872) for a giant structure which can function as a city in itself. An enormous pyramid is made from a lattice-work of hollow tubes. The tubes are made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic and form a …

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Patents: Digital cookery

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Patents: Patents Information

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Patents: Bomb tent

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Patents: Space gun

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Patents: Walkman's wrangle heard in court

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Patents: Tracking trains

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Technology

Technology: Swingometer bows out for US Presidential election

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Technology

Technology: Glowing image of farm safety?

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Technology

Technology: CD Hansard speed House search

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Technology

Technology: Cars run cleaner with ring of fire

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Science: Shipwreck prompts fancy footwork on current theories

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Science: Testing time for numbers prime

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Science: All in the family?

News

Technology

Technology: Flu falls fowl of 'magic' vaccine

News

Technology

Technology: Touchy, feely structure

News

Technology

Technology: Buckyballs bounce into silicon valley

News

Science: Lithium-poor stars may question big bang

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Science: Protein signpost points way ahead on Alzheimer's

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Animal options

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Funding rift

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Secrets' arrest

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Smuggled eagles prepare to fly free

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Electric limos

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MS gene link

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Hirsute spuds

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Astronomy theme

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Focus: Laying siege to ivory towers - As Britain begins to review the way it organises science, researchers in New Zealand and Australia are counting the cost of reform

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Science: House-sized asteroids home in on the Earth

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Prison sentences for French blood transfusion officials

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Rivers run red as mines are left to die

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New sets for old in TV heaven

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Lukewarm reception for Japanese cold fusion

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Bird with a sting in its tail

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Swedish studies pinpoint power line cancer link

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Sex, drugs and ancient Greeks

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Everyone came but the earth didn't move

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Public outcry leads to reprieve for laboratory animals

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How one in five have given up smoking

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Spin-offs 'do not justify space flight'

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Slovakia presses ahead with Danube diversion

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Narmada critics slam World Bank's latest dam plan

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Polio vaccine 'did not cause AIDS epidemic'

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Opinion

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Comment: Inheritance of the dammed

Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind's long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the idea of forcing the waters to do our bidding so entrancing. But to be entranced is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do …

Opinion

Comment: Predictive problems

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.

Who cares about malaria?: The annual sickness toll from

Wars, not philanthropy, have produced most of the world's malaria drugs. Malaria kills up to 2 million people every year, but it is only when it threatens 'Our Boys' – chiefly Americans – that it becomes an international priority. Until the 1940s there was only quinine. The Second World War spawned two new drugs and …

Features

Why the Chancellor is always wrong: No one takes the

Features

Up the starry chimney: Some stars throw out a blanket of

Features

Revolt of the industrialists: The captains of industry believe that the country's future depends on them having a greater say in how government funds research

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: Clean seas and Antarctic research - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Since Britain signed the Paris Convention for the protection of the marine environment of the northeast Atlantic, back in 1974, the government has committed itself to doing all it can to prevent, or at least reduce, marine pollution. According to David Maclean, the environment minister, Britain has made progress in reducing its discharges of pollutants …

Forum

Forum: Dollars for dinosaurs - Jeff Hecht looks into an enterprising way of supporting saurian research

Forum

Forum: Can brainstorming cloud the collective mind? - Adrian Furnham wonders what the best way is to promote creativity

Forum

Review: Paperbacks - Roy Herbert considers cold fusion, puzzles and polar history

Books & Arts

Review: Pity's face

Books & Arts

Review: From the Volga to far Kamchatka

Books & Arts

Review: The shear magic of robots

Books & Arts

Review: Thereby hangs a tale of tails

Books & Arts

Review: A gas light in the dark

Books & Arts

Review: All the President's advisers

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

Watchers of the Royal Family are working themselves into a lather over whether the Duchess of York has been wise in deciding to sue for £2 million in the French courts over the candid photographs of her holiday in France that appeared in Paris Match and subsequently all over the world. Not being a Royal …

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Letters

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