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26 November 1994

Issue 1953

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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.

Psychic powers what are the odds?

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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.

Gravity's secret signals

Features
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Are Sarawak's forests sustainable?

Features

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.

Enigma: Noughts and crosses No 798

LAST week's Noughts and Crosses Bugle had the following problem. "A game in which 0 began has reached the following position: X is now to go and win." There were some 0's and X's in the diagram but I have forgotten where they were. This week's Bugle says the solution is as follows: "X goes …

News

Technology

Polymers brush up on lubrication

News

Technology

Buying time for liver patients

News

Technology

Salad days for island in the sun

News

Patents

News

Technology

Putting pests off their food

News

… as Neptune puts on a brighter face

News

Do monkey trials offer hope for diseased brains?

News

Deep-sea shrimps see the light

News

Humans and apes are not so different

News

Technology

Cleaner diesels take to the road

News

Technology

You are more than a number in BT's phone trial

News

Technology

Speeding on the data highway

News

Hubble scientists fail to see red

News

What is Australia doing on Titan?

News

DNA reveals its talent for computing

News

Ah, yes, the subtle bouquet of the A7 …

News

Comet turns on Jupiter's northern lights …

News

Easy ride for 'pest-free' crops

News

Resort plans stuck in the mud

News

Scotland's sea lochs deserve special protection

News

How to make an imperfect census count

News

Third World plays tough in conservation game

News

Earthquake theory up in the air

News

Market forces clean up in the US

News

Low-level summit

News

Dismantling missiles

News

With the greatest of fleas

News

Dirty lakes

News

Dinosaur DNA

News

Sharing the sky

News

Squabbling all the way to the genebank

News

Major 'must keep his promises'

News

Cave intruders came to see, not touch

News

An exercise in inefficiency

News

The rise and rise of global warming

News

Brief encounter with element 110

News

Dounreay: still hot after all these years

News

Opinion

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.

Cash, not dash

THE former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, once said: "No one would have remembered the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." Mrs Thatcher obviously did not understand her Bible that well, but her harsh dictum seems well suited for Conservative party politics. How do Conservative science ministers rate …

Opinion

Why ECT still shocks us …

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.

Psychic powers what are the odds?

IN THE lobby of the Flamingo Hilton, Las Vegas, slot machines – one armed bandits – stretch in serried ranks to the far horizon. Hanging over the machines nearest the entrance stands a sign stating: "97.4 – the hottest slot percentage in town". With characteristic American bluntness, the Flamingo's management tell customers that the machines …

Features

Gravity's secret signals

Features

Are Sarawak's forests sustainable?

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.

Life and times of a star

STARS add beauty to the sky and are the building blocks of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. But they are also essential for life on Earth. Many of the atoms in our bodies were forged inside stars, and one star, the Sun, sustains us all. The Sun looks different from other stars simply because it …

Inside Science

New friends, new enemies

Forum

Submission, perfection and pass

Forum

Darwin's illustrious trailblazer

Books & Arts

AIDS in Britain

Books & Arts

Do we really need the Universe?

Forum

The discoveries of nature

Books & Arts

Racism: a real case to answer

Books & Arts

From here to infinity

Books & Arts

Women and children first

Books & Arts

Lives of the not so rich but famous

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

THE popular image may be that most Americans' favourite possession is a handgun, but a survey commissioned by Magnavox, the electronics company, puts that in doubt. What they most like to have is the remote control for their television w – when they can find it. The company has just come out with a line …

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Letters

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