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8 June 1996

Issue 2033

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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.

Can you catch a heart attack?

Features
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Blaze!

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Chaos pitch

Features
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Bright light, black hole

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.

A brave new world for family planning

THE "highest priority" should be placed on developing contraceptives that disable the genes needed for conception, says an influential panel of American biomedical scientists. Too few methods are available for men, according to a report issued by the US institute of Medicine (IOM) based in Washington DC. And genetic methods may be safer than hormonal …

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Petawatt laser puts on big squeeze

News

Technology

Repair kit for damaged nerves

News

Technology

How a hairpin could jam up the works

News

Technology

Gamma rays shake pollutants to pieces

News

Universities lack the tools of their trade

News

Cape fossil shows its softer side

News

Cluster bombs

News

Return to the wild

News

Sick deer

News

More CJD

News

Cold cure

News

No such thing as a free launch

News

The sperm that fail to get a grip

News

Sociable shrimps join the crowd

News

Strange matter of the early Universe

News

Physics unpicks a sailor's yarn

News

Plants point the way to renewable energy

News

Don't write off 'junk' DNA

News

Comets' origins

News

Technology

Be still my beating heart

News

Technology

The sky's the limit for airborne gamblers

News

Fears mount for gene scrutiny as watchdog faces axe

News

Spanish flu's frozen secrets

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Puzzling out an uncrackable code

News

Technology

Engineering healthier vegetable oil

News

Do you really need that aspirin?

News

Rape case ruling undermines faith in juries

News

Winning the war on ozone eaters

News

Secrecy for all, urges US academy

News

Megacities plan spurns science

News

Dutch and Australians at loggerheads over forestry

News

Stone Age drinkers had a taste for turpentine

News

False economies breed superbugs

News

Sick miners pay full price for gold

News

Opinion

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The Research Experience

IT'S an old joke among visitors to Britain that the only industry that seems to be booming is the heritage industry. There may not be too many shiny new factories around but abandoned quarries and mines or the remains of mills, foundries or potteries have sprung back into life all over the country with the …

Opinion

Features

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Can you catch a heart attack?

IT'S spread by coughs and sneezes. And by the time you're 20, there's a fifty-fifty chance that you're carrying the infection. But could Chlamydia pneumoniae really trigger coronary heart disease, that narrowing of the arteries which suffocates the heart muscle and kills more adults worldwide than any other disease. The theory is fuelling one of …

Features

Blaze!

Features

Chaos pitch

Features

Bright light, black hole

Features

More

Equation

Analysis of variance

WHAT is ANOVA? No, it is not an exploding star. It is a widely used method for testing the statistical significance of differences in the results of several trials, such as market tests of various designs of wallpaper or flavours of pudding. Like all statistical methods, it has its limitations. But provided those limitations are …

Inside Science

Yankee bomb busters

Books & Arts

Forum

Forum

Your mission, should you accept it …

Forum

Thistle diary : Picking up the tab for pollution

Forum

Antipodes

Forum

Enigma 878 : A game of cards

Forum

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Up, up and away

Books & Arts

One of the best

Books & Arts

Space quest …

Books & Arts

… and Moon shot

Books & Arts

The nature of the beast

Books & Arts

Do not go gentle

Books & Arts

Crack of doom

Books & Arts

Bear stalking

Books & Arts

Down, down, deeper and down

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

A LONDON newspaper's gadget columnist recently discovered BT's Call Minder, many months after BT launched the service. "Sell your shares in answering machines," he enthused, after finding out that Call Minder is a computer at the telephone exchange which records messages while your line is engaged. It then phones you back to tell you to …

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