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2 September 1995

Issue 1993

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The man who played God with infinity

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Take one amino acid …

Features
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Selling wildlife short

Features
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Catching Kevin and his friends

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.

Japanese swallow Western diseases

A WESTERN diet and lifestyle are quickly making the Japanese unhealthy, according to a survey published last week. The Japan Hospital Association says the number of people with liver, kidney and cholesterol problems has doubled in the past 10 years. Of 2.1 million people given physical checkups in 1994, only 18 per cent were given …

News

Peace letter spawned Net monster

News

Safer shuttle still risks catastrophe

News

Storm clouds gather over Met Office finances

News

Better sex care checks spread of HIV

News

Classical migraine runs in the family

News

Enigma No. 838

News

Technology

US may relax rules on encryption

News

Technology

Making a meal out of rockets

News

Technology

Making light of night landings

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Scientology

News

Technology

Japan on track for second magnetic train

News

Technology

Polymers branch out with one-step reaction

News

Technology

This CD could damage your speakers

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

News

Are superparticles poised to make their debut?

News

Technology

If the molecule fits …

News

Supernovae remove the Universe's youthful disguise

News

Rave drug may damage the brain

News

How northern forests cool the world

News

Enzyme linked with failing memory

News

Locking HIV out of our genes

News

Perfect dinner partners on a Caribbean reef

News

Right whale …

News

… Wrong back

News

Cell mart

News

Igor, the gas man's best friend

News

Sun's new spots

News

Warm bed alert

News

Cash leak

News

Fallout in the South Pacific

News

Fishy patent causes a stink in academe

News

Speed cops foiled by laser jammer

News

Ocean flip puts modellers on Med alert

News

Dishing the dirt on dishcloths

News

'Hot' report leaves France out on a limb

News

Lust for cyberporn could get you the sack

News

Jabs for dogs may save Serengeti lions

News

Opinion

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La Grande Illusion

BY the time you read this issue, French technicians will have almost finished their preparations for a series of eight underground nuclear tests on Mururoa atoll. Within a few days, or weeks at the most, seismographs around the world will pick up the first of the blasts. There is no rational reason for the tests. …

Opinion

Timing is all

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 man who played God with infinity

ASK a friend to think of a number, and chances are the response will be something like 6 or 17 or 523. If your friend is a mathematician, however, you could well be handed a surprise in the shape of -27, or 153/167, or simply "e". All of them are numbers – they just aren't …

Features

Take one amino acid …

Features

Selling wildlife short

Features

Catching Kevin and his friends

Features

More

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Correction

Correction: The "decorticator" described in Technology, 19 August, was developed at Silsoe Research Institute, not Silsoe College as stated.

Regulars

How Billy Joel nearly saved the world

Forum

Travel still broadens the mind

Forum

Diversity and debacle

Forum

More than hot air

Forum

Language Divides

Books & Arts

The tragedy of Marie Curie

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Accidents happen

Books & Arts

What shape is the Universe?

Books & Arts

It's the action that counts

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Oxford's classics

Books & Arts

Weinberg and co

Books & Arts

Take a deep breath

Books & Arts

Will they ever learn?

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 INTERNET is abuzz with news of a startling side effect of the antidepressant clomipramine. According to one posting, the effect was first described in a paper in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry which states that four patients taking the drug had spontaneous orgasms every time they yawned. One of the patients, a woman, had …

Regulars

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