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4 February 1995

Issue 1963

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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.

El Niño goes critical

Features
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Houston, we have a fire on board!

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Online to Kathmandu

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Dead in the Water

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Table of contents

News

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Enigma No 808 Multi-choice quest

IN a recent maths test five statements were labelled A to E. Statement A was "it is an odd two-figure number" and statement C was "it is a two-figure number which is an odd perfect square". The other three statements (whose order I forget) were: "it is a two-figure prime" "it is a two-figure number …

News

Technology

Bell is cast with ring of confidence

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Women

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Boats

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

News

Technology

Get your head around 3D

News

Technology

Tiny engine speeds ahead of the competition

News

Technology

Bacteria go to work on old tyres

News

Technology

Vietnamese termite meets its match

News

Gamma-ray repeater reveals star quality

News

Technology

Leaky dishes drown out terrestrial TV

News

Technology

Plot thickens as audience rewrites the script

News

Killer parasite urges cells to destroy themselves

News

Time travel: it's all done with smoke and mirrors

News

Voles' urine is their downfall

News

Expanding space gets something for nothing

News

Did storms land the dinosaurs in hot water?

News

Fossil jellyfish squashed by lichen theory

News

Deep freeze leaves its mark on mice

News

Fi diddle dee dee, nuclear triggers for me

News

Nothing new in software?

News

Wrong snow can fool pilots

News

Recycled plutonium 'a gift to bomb markers'

News

Former science adviser slams secret carve-up

News

Critical event

News

WHO comes to Kobe

News

Hard times for Britain's lost boys

News

Glass spheres track the Sun in gold

News

Gusty reception

News

Patent confusion

News

Naked intelligence

News

Botanists crack case of fossil nut

News

African locusts thrive on conflict

News

Indian dams will drive out rare animals …

News

… while fish fall prey to progress

News

Bosses with attitude set the tone

News

Hack attack leaves Internet wide open

News

Last blast for Florida's teenage trippers

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Ban on bacterium that makes poison plants safe

News

Opinion

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The trouble with boys …

LIFE just isn't fair. For the past few hundred years, women have lagged far behind men in the education stakes with equal opportunities a distant dream. Now, in the last quarter of the 20th century, girls are finally getting the kind of education they deserve, and they are beating the boys into the ground by …

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.

El Niño goes critical

El Niño, sometimes called the Earth's heartbeat, is a dramatic but mysterious climate system that periodically rages across the Pacific. Its intensity is such that it affects temperatures, storm tracks and rainfall around the world. Droughts in Africa and Australasia, tropical storms in the Pacific, torrential rains along the Californian coast and lush greening of …

Features

Houston, we have a fire on board!

Features

Online to Kathmandu

Features

Dead in the Water

Features

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Keeping the nasties under lock and key

OPERATION Sapphire, the scheme under which the US trades aid for uranium from former countries of the Soviet Union, is a matter of such importance, that I asked John Major for the government's attitude to it. The Prime Minister replied that the aim is to increase safety and security in the civil and military nuclear …

Forum

Watt power to Romania's people?

Books & Arts

The nature of mathematics

Books & Arts

A net to trap unwary gremlins

Forum

Soothsayers, suckers and sceptics

Forum

Finding the energy for a new tax

Forum

I am the Alpha and the Omega Point

Books & Arts

Time and tide wait for no man

Books & Arts

My life among the ants by E.O. Wilson

Books & Arts

All you want to know about a body

Books & Arts

Going for the cultural burn

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

MATSUSHITA'S European headquarters has rushed out a press release which tells how the company "best known for its Panasonic and Technics brands … has announced that it is donating about £2 million to help the victims of the disaster" in Japan. Matsushita tells us it has also "already supplied over 30 000 torches and batteries …

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