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13 November 1993

Issue 1899

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Dining with vultures: Restaurants that serve race horse or elephant may prove a godsend to one ancient African scavenger struggling to adapt to modern times

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Playtime for postgrads

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We have ways of keeping you alert: The effects of long hours and shift work can turn a smooth-running plant into a Three Mile Island or a Chernobyl. How can we kick-start our brains?

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Hiroshima's shadow over Sellafield

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News

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Technology

Technology: Naked eyes catch 3D on TV

Commercial three-dimensional television has moved a step closer with the launch of a system from Sanyo that can be viewed without special glasses. The Japanese electronics company unveiled its new autostereoscopic liquid crystal screen at an electronics show in Tokyo last month. The system will go on sale from next year. Sanyo's system uses two …

News

Technology

Technology: Dr Who enters another dimension

News

Technology

Technology: Europe's skies too busy for cockpit computers?

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Science: Impalas' wobbly teeth get to grips with ticks

News

Technology

Technology: Kodak snubs green 'fixer'

News

Technology

Technology: US signs up secret of Soviet success in space

News

Science: Baby star found without a cradle

News

Science: Ancient asteroid not guilty of murdering dinosaurs

News

Science: Hairy balls in higher dimensions

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Science: A sweet solution to the damage of arthritis?

News

Science: Vole variations upset owls' mating game

News

Palm nuts help to crack poverty problem

News

Not guilty

News

Gene warnings

News

Lava that's too liquid

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Mice to blame

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Cleaner air

News

Precious primate

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Signing with CERN

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Collision course for frontier physics

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Telephone big guns kill off rabit

News

Why computers could flip out in a tight corner

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Is getting up early bad for you?

News

HIV scandal could put paid to blood trade

News

Environmental cleanup? No thanks

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'Quriky' judgements can keep researchers from cash

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High hopes in space

News

Giant mirror would see off doomsday asteriod

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Worried women ignore cancer risk

News

Thorp radiation will kill 200

News

Fatal flaw fingers fake fossil fly

News

Green petrol a hazard to health

News

Opinion

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All at sea following review of marine research

THE Australian government has set up a task force to try to reduce the level of lead in young children. The main culprit is lead in petrol, so the task force will examine the potential for public transport and alternative fuels to reduce exposure to lead. The group, which is chaired by environment minister Ros …

Opinion

Comment: Real deaths real choices?

Opinion

Comment: Bad blood

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.

Dining with vultures: Restaurants that serve race horse or elephant may prove a godsend to one ancient African scavenger struggling to adapt to modern times

It is a crisp, sunny winter morning on the cliffs of the Magaliesberg mountains, some 50 kilometres from Johannesburg: a sulphurous haze of pollution hangs in the valley. Suddenly, as the thermals gather strength, dozens of vultures leave their nests and begin to circle and soar above the cliffs. The daily search for food and …

Features

Playtime for postgrads

Features

We have ways of keeping you alert: The effects of long hours and shift work can turn a smooth-running plant into a Three Mile Island or a Chernobyl. How can we kick-start our brains?

Features

Hiroshima's shadow over Sellafield

Features

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Review: Altered states in LA

Wild Palms A television series on BBC 2 from Monday, 15 November at 9 pm The Wild Palms Reader edited by R. Trilling and S. Swezey, Warner Books, pp 130, £12.99 pbk Heads up for the first television series with a storyline based around subcutaneous chip implants and virtual reality TV. Throw in some smart …

Books & Arts

Review: Visualisers for society

Books & Arts

Review: Book bites for the three-minute generation

Books & Arts

Review: Astrological eggs

Books & Arts

Review: Destruction on the grand scale

Books & Arts

Forum: A new crusade for science? - Debora MacKenzie wonders why Rome is now apologising for inquisitions past

Forum

Forum: Altruism and the scientific reprint - Steve McKillup wonders how the reprint request system has managed to survive for so long

Forum

Thistle Diary: Hurtful words and flightless birds - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Review: How one old-worlder shaped the new order

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

December 25 being only a few weeks away, Feedback feels another competition coming on. For this year's Christmas competition, thanks to an idea suggested by John Ough of Ottawa, you are invited to help us to compile a shopping list of ideal Christmas presents for famous individuals. Examples might be: for Alan Turing, a pocket …

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