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20 January 1996

Issue 2013

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Red or dead?

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Red or dead?

Features
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Downhome technopia

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Stardust to catch a comet by the tail

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The creativity machine

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A matter of degree

ENIGMA 858 Within the Earth's atmospheric range, it is not possible to convert any whole number of degrees Fahrenheit into Celsius by reversing the digits. There is a good approximation in the case of 82 °F, which is nearly 28 °C the same may be said for 61 °F and 16 °C, but in neither …

News

Technology

Freezing out brackish water

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Morse users send out an SOS

News

Technology

An enzyme for surviving in the desert …

News

Technology

… and a gene for resisting flooding

News

Why English is hard on the brain

News

Search for ET continues after ozone let down

News

Lost limbs show up in the brain

News

Will El Niño become El Hombre?

News

Ancient plants with modern plumbing

News

Rare gene means NO smoking

News

Killer protein links AIDS to heart failure

News

Stone me, those crows make tools

News

Doped crystal kills off the unwanted chemical twin

News

Technology

How to get a more moving performance

News

Merging stars are quick-change artists

News

Technology

'Kinder' cancer drug goes on trial

News

Genetics watchdog

News

Farmers' victory

News

Someone to watch over me

News

Watchdog steps in over NHS data

News

Dirty oil makes a feast for soil bacteria

News

South Pole neutrino trap languishes in the snow

News

Pyramids broke the backs of workers

News

Andes flower is champion pestkiller

News

Green kitten keeps the vet guessing

News

Nuclear shutdown

News

Innovation squeeze

News

Make polluters pay

News

Pretty good result for free speech

News

Wrong laugh leaves chimps speechless

News

Size is all in the Lone Star State

News

Why cholera blooms in the spring

News

Take me to your microwave

News

Sit tight for 30 years, argues climate guru

News

Financial scandal rocks French cancer charity

News

Boxers' brains at risk from round one

News

Opinion

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Every move you make …

DO video security cameras reduce crime? With over 200 000 cameras installed in Britain, on buildings and in networks around a growing number of shopping centres, the popular feeling is that they must do. Letters published in this issue and last week show that the Home Secretary and the Minister of State for the Scottish …

Opinion

Final bout for young boxers

Opinion

Features

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Red or dead?

GROVES of hazel trees cover the Roero hills to the south of Turin. In the autumn, the nuts are gathered and mixed with chocolate to make the sticky paste Nutella which has been the breakfast treat of generations of Italian children.But now an alien invader with a voracious appetite for hazelnuts threatens to devastate the …

Features

Downhome technopia

Features

Stardust to catch a comet by the tail

Features

The creativity machine

Features

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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.

Too hot to handle?

A NEW Australian study, which takes a longer term view of climate change than ever before, foresees no end to global warming in the next 150 years. By this time the average world temperature will be about 4°C hotter. Heating on this scale will have a widespread impact on the natural world and on human …

Forum

Scan, annotate and pass on …

Forum

Thistle diary

Forum

Needham's legacy

Books & Arts

Law unto itself?

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Oxford

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Life after Schrödinger

Books & Arts

High class chat

Books & Arts

Star site

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Chart topper

Books & Arts

Charles reprinted

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Back to the garden

Books & Arts

Chemists are people too: Creations of Fire

Books & Arts

First you see it, then you don't

Forum

Slimy things that crawl

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Lead on

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No limits

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All the maths you'll ever need: Five Golden Rules

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Mental workout

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE CAN WELL understand the view of the Department for Education and Employment Overseas Labour Service that positions for research support staff should only go to people from other countries if no good European candidate can be found. But there seems to be some confusion on how to interpret this. A researcher at Imperial College, …

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