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This week's magazine

27 August 1994

Issue 1940

New Scientist issue 1940 cover


Table of contents

News

Patents: Climb every bathtub

News

Technology

Technology: The culture that came from outer space

News

Technology

Technology: Waiter, there's no fly in my cereal

News

Technology

Technology: NHS takes first step down information superhighway

News

Science: How ripening fruit invite fungal attack

News

Science: Ants are smart enough to keep appointments

News

Science: Is dark matter shadowed by dust?

News

Science: Rogue protein may spread BSE throughout brain

News

Technology

Technology: Satellite guide picks a way through the ice

News

Ammonia appeal

News

Ills of spills

News

Call for coal

News

Bungee monkey

News

How safe if SAFE ?: A plan to upgrade two nuclear reactors in Solvakia may force Western governments to stop dithering over nuclear safety in Eastern Europe.

News

Science: Martial arts students influence the past

News

Dust settles on Jupiter after comet crash

News

Hidden galaxy discovered on Earth's doorstep

News

Brain drain goes into reverse

News

Pests have field day in the heat

News

'Dead insect' grounds Japan's rocket

News

Fast words speed past dyslexics

News

Some confusion over fusion in the US

News

Fall in physics

News

Hands under the sea

News

A disaster in waiting

News

A little plutonium goes a long way. . .

News

Butterfly smugglers trapped in Delhi

News

South African soap aids the health of the nation

News

Seeds of hope for Rwanda's farmers

News

'Wrong paddy fields' measured for methane

News

Climate change threatens southern Asia

News

Cairo row over teenager' right to choose

News

Future quakes could rock world economy

News


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