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5 April 1997

Issue 2076

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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.

Jupiter's odd bunch

Features
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Timetodie...

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.

Palmtop planes - Though smaller than a model aircraft these are no toys. Justin Mullins reports on the tiny spyplanes getting ready to zoom in on your secrets

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.

Mud sticks - For anyone who still hopes for clean election campaigning, Michael Day has bad news

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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.

Science : How speech is built from memories

A STUDY of the language skills of patients suffering from diseases that impair memory has thrown up new clues about how the brain copes with language. Neuroscientists in the US claim that two distinct parts of the brain—each associated with a different type of memory—handle the tasks of recalling words and applying grammar rules. They …

News

Science : Radar sorts the rain from the snow

News

Fishy rabbits

News

Ariane delayed

News

A safer reactor?

News

Costly habit

News

IT in the country

News

The wall that won't come down - Eight years after unification, the Cold War lingers on in laboratories across Germany

News

France gets to the heart of oak

News

Brent Spar may be just the beginning…

News

Access denied to Congressional reports

News

Net guardians must defend their names in court

News

Clash over funding threatens to ground Snoopy

News

Imperfect scans

News

'Hopeless' HIV testing fails Britain's unborn children

News

If you want to be green, recycle your taxes

News

Crunch time for lead shot ban

News

Errant `eye' blurs Hubble's vision

News

Viennese vice squad sparks Net strike

News

Antipodes clamp down on genetically engineered food

News

Organs for research are on the cards

News

Row over sterilisation divides India

News

Bohemian rhinos raise breeding hopes

News

Technology

Technology : Surfing grows better crops

News

Technology

Technology : Soggy cardboard saves six-pack

News

Technology

Technology : Knowing when to trust your bearings

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Picking up the twister's bad vibrations

News

Technology

Technology : Parkinson's hopes stem from cell trigger

News

Technology

Technology : Nutty idea that's clean and cheap

News

Technology

Technology : Look kids, here comes Barney

News

Science : Southern oceans hold key to climate

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Science : Organic molecules on Jupiter's moons

News

Science : Recipe for jelly promises new catalysts

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Science : Human cells adopt DIY chromosome

News

Science : Hearty lunch is secret of voles' sex appeal

News

Science : Did sea-level fall kill the dinosaurs?

News

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 : A comet at heaven's gate

IF YOU live in the northern hemisphere and you still haven't seen Comet Hale-Bopp, now is the time to look. The comet can currently be found soon after sunset in a north-westerly direction, some 25 degrees above the horizon. Its large, milky tail makes it unmistakable and far more impressive than its more famous relative, …

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.

Jupiter's odd bunch

Flagstaff, Arizona PICTURE four strange worlds, siblings in space. On one, a giant volcano has just spattered a region the size of England with bright yellow debris. This world glows with a ghostly light, given off by its shroud of ionised gases. The second world is covered in a shell of ice, but hiding beneath …

Features

Timetodie...

Features

Palmtop planes - Though smaller than a model aircraft these are no toys. Justin Mullins reports on the tiny spyplanes getting ready to zoom in on your secrets

Features

Mud sticks - For anyone who still hopes for clean election campaigning, Michael Day has bad news

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.

Thistle diary : The balloon goes up - Comment from Limboland by Tam Dalyell

ESTIMATES provided by the government-sponsored YES campaign—the Year of Engineering Success—indicate that Britain is only getting half the 30 000 newly qualified engineers it needs to replace those leaving the profession. Today's engineers need to be well-versed in physics and mathematics. But sadly, this year has seen a decline in the number of applications for …

Forum

Antipodes : Fighting words from the Minister provoke anger - Ian Lowe attends a forum on careers in science

Forum

Forum : Painting a rosier picture

Forum

Forum : Will Cluster ride again?

Forum

Review : Bloody tide

Books & Arts

Review : Vote animal

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : No backlash

Books & Arts

The Science of Love by Anthony Walsh

Books & Arts

Review : Out of body . . .

Books & Arts

Review : . . . not out of mind

Books & Arts

Review : Reflections on relativity

Books & Arts

Review : Still wild at heart

Books & Arts

Review : I blame them subsidies, Eddie

Books & Arts

Review : Perfectly picked

Books & Arts

Review : Ben as hero

Books & Arts

Review : Life and how to define it

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 COUPLE of weeks ago we ran a piece debunking warnings about computer viruses supposedly spread by text-only e-mail messages ( 22 March ). Several readers have written in with solid technological arguments to back up our belief that these warnings are hoaxes and that computer viruses cannot be spread in this way, although this …

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