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23 July 1994

Issue 1935

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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.

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Features
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Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

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.

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

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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: Are science parks virtually dead?

Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high-tech businesses. What the Leeds researchers call a Virtual Science Park will allow researchers at the university to keep in constant contact with colleagues in …

News

Technology

Technology: CD drives fail video standards test

News

Technology

Technology: Water jet puts surgeons at the cutting edge

News

Science: How New England laid vampires to rest

News

Science: Dark stars come closer to home

News

Science: Honeybees iron out their directional problems

News

Technology

Technology: US viewers prefer video-on-demand

News

Technology

Technology: Drug makers get a kick from bugs that like cocaine

News

Technology

Technology: Robot repair gangs for America's highways

News

Technology

Technology: Bacterial infections wiped out in a flash

News

Technology

Technology: Earthworms breathe life into derelict land

News

Science: Diabetes epidemic strikes Pacific islanders

News

Science: Taking the temperature of T rex

News

Pacific winds of change predict African harvest

News

US loosens laws for testing modified pest killers

News

Smuggled plutonium

News

Appeal fails

News

Snack pack that baffles bears

News

Keep it casual

News

Fossil fund

News

TV compromise

News

The Midas Touch: An elite corps of researchers funded by a single institute is stealing the limelight in biomedicine

News

Sperm injections 'too risky'

News

Birds lose place in the shade

News

Clues lost when children's medical records are discarded

News

Can poison save Pitcairn petrel?

News

France wins fight for HIV royalties

News

By Jupiter . . . what a performance

News

Women sue over painful implants

News

Satellite guard on nuclear fuel

News

There's money in space for Australia

News

Cancer cells ignore death order

News

When love is nothing but a catastrophe. . .

News

Opinion

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Publishing and perishing

AUSTRALIAN science is starting to wilt under government pressure to become more productive. That is the inescapable conclusion from two recent studies - one, by the Carnegie Foundation in the US, sampled the mood of Australian academics; the other, by Paul Bourke and Linda Butler of the Australian National University, looked at the impact of …

Opinion

Comment: Noxious fumes

Opinion

Comment: Centre of excellence

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.

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Debates about the psychology of memory are normally the stuff of arid academic texts. But throw in accusations of child abuse, costly court cases pitting children against parents and controversial psychotherapy techniques aimed at 'recovering' supposedly long-repressed memories, and you have a feast fit for the pages of colour supplements. All this, however, has left …

Features

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

Features

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

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.

Review: Beside the seaside, beside the sea

Sea Breeze and Local Wind by John E. Simpson, Cambridge University Press, pp 234, £29.95/ dollars 39.93 For the most part meteorological books concentrate on the large-scale features of the weather. But, in the real world, local factors can exert an appreciable influence on the conditions we experience. While many textbooks cover aspects of local …

Books & Arts

Review: Darwin at Walden

Books & Arts

Review: The right stuff on the Moon

Books & Arts

Review: Saving fossils from the Philistines

Books & Arts

Forum: When Bernal got plastered with Picasso . . . - the resulting work of art became a historical souvenir well worth saving

Forum

Review: Fins and blazing paddles

Books & Arts

Review: Paradigms are not the only answer

Books & Arts

Thistle Diary: Chernobyl churn-up - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum: Popping the right eco-questions - Peter Holway goes in search of some efficient queries

Forum

Review: How to build on disasters

Books & Arts

Review: The making of herbal myths

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

In recent weeks there has been much swooning around the New Scientist office over the sight of Feedback's legs. Yes, readers, the shorts have been taken out of the cupboard, the knees are on show - and it's time for the Feedback Summer Competition. This year, readers are invited to submit 'backronyms' for institutions, processes, …

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Regulars

Letters

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