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3 December 1994

Issue 1954

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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.

Parkinson's a suitable case for treatment

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Pumping iron in the Pacific

Features
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Why Presidents have more sons

Features
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Growing money from Algorithms

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: Going to great lengths

MY friend and I go swimming at the local 25-metre pool. We both swim at our own steady speed and when she has completed one length I have swum a certain whole number of metres. We start at one end of the pool together and she gradually gets ahead. After completing a length she turns, …

News

Technology

Gearing up to get ahead on the roads

News

Technology

Screw tightens up maintenance costs

News

Technology

Smarter motors are cleaner motors

News

Technology

A sting in Disney's fairy tale

News

Technology

BT's big break into TV broadcasting

News

Technology

Infrared alerts doctors to glaucoma

News

HIV relies on human 'chaperone' protein to reproduce

News

Technology

Net benefits result from smarter economics

News

Carbon-14 makes its stellar debut

News

Do ETs phone home with neutrinos?

News

Old stardust has makings of new solar systems

News

Prostate clue

News

Cancer concern

News

All charged up and nowhere to go

News

Ice ages: the peat bog connection

News

Could waterwings stop ro-ros capsizing?

News

Vampire fish show their teeth

News

Kazakhs trade uranium for aid

News

Pollution peaks on bonfire night

News

French aim their sights on pink flamingos

News

Clinton plans to green US timber

News

Ozone lowest yet

News

Tree rings a clear winner

News

Worth its salt

News

Tortilla taste

News

Plenty of plutonium

News

Testing time

News

Thumbs down for killers

News

Environment

Taiwan's tragic orang-utans

News

Scorpion gene virus on trial in Oxford

News

Soliders lay waste to Africa's oldest park

News

A slice of life on the Internet

News

Sun sets on Japan's economic miracle

News

Gummer buries list of poisoned land

News

When the dance floor rocks and rolls

News

Opinion

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Snakes and ladders

JUST a couple of years ago, Germany and Japan were regarded as models for countries aspiring to leadership in high technology. Germany took enormous pride in its skilled workforce and its sophisticated training programmes. And Japan, by turning its back on military research, had achieved a level of investment in civil research that rivalled that …

Opinion

A very blunt instrument

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.

Parkinson's a suitable case for treatment

REMEMBER the screaming headlines of 1988: "Brain graft cure for Parkinson's disease"? Surgeons in Mexico, in Sweden and in Britain had transplanted brain tissue from aborted fetuses into the brains of people with Parkinson's disease, and some had made claims of spectacular recovery. Six years on, Parkinson's disease remains as incurable as ever. But results …

Features

Pumping iron in the Pacific

Features

Why Presidents have more sons

Features

Growing money from Algorithms

Features

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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.

Clear skies over South Africa

GOOD news, astronomical cooperation between Britain and South Africa is back in sharp focus. Douglas Hogg, a minister of state at the Foreign Office, tells me that the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council is to provide funds for British scientists to use the South African Astronomical Observatory at Sutherland in the Karoo. The SAAO …

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The Dragon of the Top End

Forum

How to make an adventure count

Forum

Hurricane Cable rips through the suburbs

Forum

How to conquer the fear of maths

Books & Arts

Eggs is eggs is eggs

Books & Arts

Paperbacks: Questions and answers for physical sciences, and spotting a bargain

Books & Arts

Let's hear it for our finned friends

Books & Arts

Jules Verne's swing at the sixties

Books & Arts

Blame it on the genes

Books & Arts

Seventeen years' hard labour for the twitchers

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

"AUTHORS gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname," said Jen Hunt in The Psychologist, quoted here on 5 November. Several readers have since provided evidence that corroborates this theory. Who but A. M. Glass would choose to write a paper for Science on "optical materials" (vol 235, 1987)? And who but Peter …

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