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4 May 1996

Issue 2028

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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.

One false step... - Hidden land mines take a terrible toll, killing civilians for years after a conflict ends. Justin Mullins examines the technologies that researchers hope will tackle this lethal legacy of war

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.

Warm havens for life on Mars

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.

Trouble bubbles for hydropower - From China to Norway, new hydroelectric schemes are supposed to help cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But will they? Fred Pearce investigates

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.

Zombies, dolphins and blindsight

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.

Technology

Technology : How to track the body's hot spots

A THERMOMETER that can take the temperature of the body's delicate internal organs from outside the body has been developed by German scientists. It could help doctors pinpoint and treat tumours, which are warmer than healthy tissue. At present the only way to measure the temperature of internal organs is to insert a thermometer, and …

News

Technology

Technology : Star Wars satellite joins battle for the environment

News

Technology

Technology : Sad doll disease ends in tears

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Hidden watermark traps picture pirates

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Technology

Technology : Catching blood clots before they do damage

News

Technology

Technology : Crunch time looms for processed peas

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Technology

Technology : Any sound you like, as long as it sells

News

Science : Lost limbs reveal the brain's ghostly wiring

News

Science : Flashes of light from the quantum world

News

Science : Oilmen's hunch proves rock-solid . . .

News

Science : . . . as black gold reveals its plastic parentage

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Science : Suicide is also a plant's best friend

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Heavier lorries planned for Britain's roads

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Second-hand smoke gets in your blood

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Science : Have the mind mappers lost their way?

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Drug-resistant TB

News

The hole where the ultraviolet comes in

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Radiation patchwork

News

Asteroids galore

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Restless gene

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Naked apes

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British astronomy goes up for sale

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Europe halts march of supermaize

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Passions run high over French cave art

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Mind switch could help disabled regain control

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Europe's new rocket hangs on a shoestring

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Natural radiation 'may kill thousands'

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Monkey missions outrage animal activists

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Shock pregnancies 10 years after sterilisation

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Opinion

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.

Editorial : Green for danger . . . - THE government's attitude towards reducing the impact of transport on the environment is rather like St Augustine's view of chastity: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet."

THE government's attitude towards reducing the impact of transport on the environment is rather like St Augustine's view of chastity: "Give me chastity and continency—but not yet." Eighteen months ago, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution published a radical review of transport policy. It wanted higher taxes on fuel to curb the growth of cars …

Opinion

Editorial : A narrow kirk in Edinburgh - OVER the past few weeks, Edinburgh University has supported its controversial psychologist Christopher Brand, on the grounds that "academic freedom" allows his studies of intelligence, race and genetics. So far, so

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.

One false step... - Hidden land mines take a terrible toll, killing civilians for years after a conflict ends. Justin Mullins examines the technologies that researchers hope will tackle this lethal legacy of war

WHEN the guns finally fell silent in Bosnia earlier this year, there was an almost audible sigh of relief around the world. But the bloodshed is still not over. Several times in recent months TV cameras have captured horrific images of children maimed by land mines. Those images have reinforced the message being presented to …

Features

Warm havens for life on Mars

Features

Trouble bubbles for hydropower - From China to Norway, new hydroelectric schemes are supposed to help cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But will they? Fred Pearce investigates

Features

Zombies, dolphins and blindsight

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.

Antipodes : Trees can lessen climate change economically - Ian Lowe looks at the costs of greenhouse policy

AUSTRALIA could profitably take a leaf out of New Zealand's book and plant trees to slow down climate change. That is the conclusion I draw from a study released last month by an Australian government advisory body, the Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics. In the study—Costs of carbon sequestration through afforestation—the BTCE has calculated …

Forum

Review : Fairyland wins

Books & Arts

Review : Words' worth

Books & Arts

Review : Norway's space

Books & Arts

Review : Outspoken engineer

Books & Arts

Review : Europe's megaliths

Books & Arts

Review : Particle hunters

Books & Arts

Review : The good, the bad and the FBI

Books & Arts

Review : Great idea

Books & Arts

Review : Body heated

Books & Arts

Review : Tell it true

Books & Arts

Review : Missing

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Forum : Taking arms against the mercenaries

Forum

Forum : Save the animals, feed the people

Forum

Thistle diary : Hubble trouble and limestone rubble - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Enigma 873 : Prime time

Forum

Review : Sleep, glorious sleep

Books & Arts

Review : Children of an effluent age

Books & Arts

Review : Demystifying Meg

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Hot stuff Q: Is it true that hot water placed in a freezer freezes faster than cold water? And if so why does this happen? (continued) A: In scientifically controlled experiments this effect seems to be real. We assume that the temperature in the freezer stays constant during the freezing process as do the variables …

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