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7 January 1995

Issue 1959

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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.

Maps of the Mind

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.

And here is the Eruption Forecast

Features
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Whatever Happened to the Gene Revolution?

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Intel backs down over Pentium

INTEL took on the world and the world won. Just before Christmas, the world's biggest computer chip manufacturer, announced that it would replace any Pentium chip containing the flaw that makes it inaccurate when performing some calculations. This overturns the company's earlier position, when it said it would only replace Pentiums used in high-precision scientific …

News

Technology

Seeing double at the movies

News

Technology

Blast off for television's Hot Birds

News

Technology

Plastic windows spread a little sunshine

News

Pet theory gets the Universe out of a hole

News

Technology

How to police wayward cops

News

Technology

Electronic sniffer stalks famous fungus

News

Technology

Minute magnets made from tiny tubes

News

Technology

Double standard could shake video CD sales

News

Life is just a buckybowl of cherries

News

Dark matter is still the only game in town

News

The dwarf that breaks the rules

News

Did Stone Age people dance to the flute?

News

Baby, you can share my car

News

Clinton smooths path for biotechnology

News

Cuts hamper innovation

News

Will the strain show in Bangkok?

News

Tagged tuna keep their place in the sun

News

Amazonian trees pay the price of ant guards

News

HIV team corners stealthy enzyme

News

Is a virus wiping out frogs?

News

Falling prices herald backyard windmills

News

Mites play havoc with musicians

News

Prehistoric engravings face death by drowning

News

Cabinet battle over accidents to nuclear ships

News

Safer gene therapy in sight for cystic fibrosis

News

Storm clouds gather on Saturn

News

And then there were 111

News

Merger boost for health flagship

News

Planes fly through climate loophole

News

Report slams official traffic forecasts

News

Opinion

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A new cultural revolution?

FASTEN your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. This year looks as if it will be just as unsettling as last year with the global order and the distribution of wealth continuing to be transformed by technological and political forces. Here are a couple of safe bets for stories we are going to …

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.

Maps of the Mind

THE mind may well be science's final frontier. For a century, psychologists and neurologists have recorded people's behaviour, invented abstract computer models of mental processes and chopped up dead brains in their quest for clues about the nature of consciousness. But despite all this effort, there have been few returns. Indeed, when it comes to …

Features

And here is the Eruption Forecast

Features

Whatever Happened to the Gene Revolution?

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.

Enigma

Deductions Alan has told Bill and Charlie that he had chosen two different integers, each in the range 1-15, and has noted their product and their sum. He shows Bill the product, and Bill remarks that he cannot deduce the pair of numbers. Alan then shows Charlie the sum, and Charlie, who has heard Bill's …

Forum

Spam, spam, spam, spam

Books & Arts

What seems to be the problem, dear?

Books & Arts

Hot rats, fresh rats, get your rat on a stick here

Books & Arts

When God pots black …

Forum

Painting the big picture in primary colours

Forum

A new reactor or bust, consultant says

Forum

High-energy defence and attack

Forum

Unsung heroes of the modern age

Books & Arts

Genes are not the only players

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

BY their guest list ye shall know them. The Natural Environment Research Council's Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology held a "public meeting" a few weeks ago (reported in This Week, 3 December) to allay fears about its release into the environment of a genetically engineered caterpillar virus near Oxford. But the public found it …

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Letters

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