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23 September 1995

Issue 1996

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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.

What's in a voice

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.

Send in the robots

Features
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Into the vortex

Features
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Can he jump 19 metres?

Features

Table of contents

News

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ENIGMA: No. 841

Five to four ALBION, Borough, City, Rangers and United have once again been playing their tournament in which each team was scheduled to play each of the other teams once, two matches being scheduled on each of five successive Saturdays, each of the five teams having one Saturday without a match. Three points were awarded …

News

Technology

Essential computers from the wizards of Oz

News

Technology

Antibody probes for warning signs of gum disease

News

Technology

Programmers takes spam off the menu

News

Underground allies keep crafty pines alive

News

Technology

Bright sparks clean up diesel engines

News

Technology

Ancient tapestries benefit from bubble baths

News

Technology

Hi-tech farming to save the environment?

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Party Conferences

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Britains MPs

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Project Vote Smart

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Comments

News

Technology

Recording ideal pacifies music industry

News

Carrot vitamin restores failing sight

News

Don't give up on the mysterious monopoles

News

Could a gut reaction keep HIV at bay?

News

Storm in a bath of baby oil

News

Just add a pinch of nickel or a spoonful of vanadium

News

Diabetes pegged to problem peptide

News

Model mutations predict treatment to fit the tumour

News

Superfit athletes may run out of puff

News

Is Auntie leading inventors astray?

News

Turtles find an unlikely ally

News

For want of a weld …

News

Just the jab

News

Land of the giants

News

Smoggy, smoggy day in LA

News

Inadmissible evidence

News

Sun seeker

News

Unexploded mines

News

Porn arrests

News

Did Antarctic explorers starve to death?

News

Net benefits are only for the rich

News

Hair holds clues to Ötzi's job

News

Sounding out a safer siren

News

Implant works wonders for deaf babies

News

El Greco had style not astigmatism

News

Secret signals hidden in chaos

News

Leukaemia linked to radioactive rivers

News

Stop – traffic drill can kill children

News

Suicides 'may be trapped by shadowy past'

News

Sugary gel leaves no scar

News

Killing crops with cleanliness

News

TB battle needs higher profile

News

Dirty doctors spread disease

News

This is the age of the microwave

News

Secretive French flout Europe's rules on bomb tests

News

US fights ban on laser warfare

News

Opinion

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What have they got to hide?

DO the French nuclear tests in the Pacific cause environmental damage or don't they? A few weeks ago a group of scientists meeting in Australia couldn't find a lot to go on. Now, the European Commission has entered the fray. Invoking a hitherto unused legal power, the Commission has asked France to obey the Furatom …

Opinion

How to miss an open goal

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.

What's in a voice

WHETHER you love or hate a singer's voice is ultimately a matter of taste. But few would dispute that Luciano Pavarotti sounds a whole lot better on a high note than Joe Smith in the shower. What gives singers who become famous the edge? It's a difficult question to answer, but new research is revealing …

Features

Send in the robots

Features

Into the vortex

Features

Can he jump 19 metres?

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.

Letters – correction

Correction: an incorrect Internet address appeared in Netropolitan on 9 September. Technosphere should be: http://lcp20.lond-inst.ac.uk/technosphere/index.html .

Regulars

Now we'll teach the little blighters a lesson

Forum

Green shoots and soil sinks

Forum

Too few fish in the sea …

Forum

Oceans inspire trans Tasman collaboration

Forum

Far out

Books & Arts

Electrifying TV

Books & Arts

Points of view

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Sydney

Books & Arts

Mommie dearest

Books & Arts

Warts and all

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Beastly behaviour: The Beauty and the Beast

Books & Arts

Stormy weather

Books & Arts

Coasting alone

Books & Arts

Charles had a wonderful idea: Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Books & Arts

Evil genes

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

HOW do you fancy spending your next holiday on Mururoa Atoll? As part of the campaign to convince the world that the nuclear tests there won't do any harm, French foreign ministry official Yves Doutriaux has suggested the atoll could be turned into a resort when the tests are over. The Sydney Morning Herald responded …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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