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24 December 1994

Issue 1957

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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.

The tingle factor

Features
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1995 And all that

Features
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Robin the redbreasted thug

Features
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Murder most botanical

Features
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Designer dreams

Features
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Blues for Beaky

Features
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Life

Miners at the holly face

Features
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Three Kings offer sanctuary

Features
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Inside every partygoer

Features
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What's catastrophe got to do with it?

Features
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Kissing times are here again

Features
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Out, out damned spot!

Features
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No sex please, we're clones

Features
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Wormholes in Wonderland

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.

Gene theft suspects held in FBI sting

AN FBI undercover operation netted two men last week who have been charged with conspiring to export stolen genetically engineered cells. The modified mammalian cells contain the gene for human erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone made by the body and one of the biotechnology industry's most profitable drugs. The FBI alleges that the two men demanded …

News

Did birdman smuggle endangered species?

News

Santa comes early to CERN

News

Pine 'dinosaur' lurks in gorge

News

Clinton U-turn on embryo research

News

First brick in China's colossal dam

News

Hands off the labs, say Lords

News

Enigma No 803

News

Enigma No 802

News

Technology

Real ale leaves its mark

News

Technology

Snowflakes keep their cool

News

Technology

Incredible, shrinking DNA fingerprinting

News

Technology

Domino effect conquers the big screen

News

Patents

News

Trees are on the march?

News

Is asteroid Ida a 3D jigsaw?

News

Technology

All shook up …

News

Technology

IBM enters the field in Pentium battle

News

Christmas trees provide pollution solution

News

How did the young Earth keep itself warm?

News

Surfing sperm ride the womb's waves

News

Mystery virus implicated in AIDS cancer

News

Gene linked to one form of epilepsy

News

Chinese virus to curb runaway rabbits

News

Should we let the birds fly free?

News

Planes plan

News

Space taste test

News

BST ban stays

News

Tonic for Brittany

News

Eyes in the night keep deer off the road

News

'Foolish' therapy

News

Spamming Santa

News

'Prove you're not wasting our money', say research chiefs

News

Crop killer lurks in festive foliage

News

Teenagers show that three into two doesn't go

News

'Biters of men' turn out to be herbivores

News

Aerial survey undermines case for rhino trade

News

Opinion

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The old order changeth …

THE FBI has given itself a nice Christmas present with its first successful sting operation aimed at criminals in the biotechnology industry. The plot was an American classic: FBI agent pretends to be a member of the old Soviet KGB, offers cash for secrets, and then whips out his badge and makes the arrest. The …

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.

The tingle factor

I HAVE been addicted to electricity since the age of 12, when "Doughy" Baker, the senior chemistry master, made his class link hands and closed the circle through the brass knobs of a Wimshurst machine. He turned the handle of this electrostatic device, generating a current of a few microamps. The class obediently tingled and …

Features

1995 And all that

Features

Robin the redbreasted thug

Features

Murder most botanical

Features

Designer dreams

Features

Blues for Beaky

Features

Life

Miners at the holly face

Features

Three Kings offer sanctuary

Features

Inside every partygoer

Features

What's catastrophe got to do with it?

Features

Kissing times are here again

Features

Out, out damned spot!

Features

No sex please, we're clones

Features

Wormholes in Wonderland

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.

Picking up the tab for peace

THE once and present superpowers may no longer be enemies, but they're finding that friendship is a complicated affair. The US Congress has agreed to spend millions to help convert the former Soviet military enterprise to civilian uses. That's all well and good, say Sovietologists in Washington, but what about scientists who'll be thrown out …

Forum

Beware the glare of black light

Forum

If only I could remember her name

Forum

The triumph of la dolce vita?

Forum

All around our brains

Books & Arts

By Jove, it's massive: Jupiter

Books & Arts

Who's a clever species, then?

Books & Arts

Software

Books & Arts

A modern Stoic takes on the reductionists

Books & Arts

Pocket-sized trees

Books & Arts

The Poinars' search for a sticky end

Books & Arts

In their own words

Books & Arts

Biology's grand unifying theory

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

FOR this year's Feedback Christmas Competition you were invited to suggest the title and (if you felt like it) provide the blurb for the book about science or technology you would most like to read. As has happened before with our competitions, morphic resonance ensured that many of you were struck by identical ideas, presumably …

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Letters

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