Subscribe now

This week's magazine

29 June 2002

Issue 2349

New Scientist issue 2349 cover
Previous issue Next issue
arrow
Subscribe
Access our magazine content direct via our website, app or print magazine
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

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.

All in the mind

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.

Game over

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.

Boys won't be boys

Features
Blood diamonds and oil

Blood diamonds and oil

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.

Core reality

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.

Galactic guzzlers stay hungry for life

THE slumbering giants at the heart of every galaxy don't sleep forever. Astronomers have caught some of these black holes snacking on star systems and, in one case, a planet. Every galaxy contains at its heart a supermassive black hole whose mass is between a million and a few billion times that of our Sun. …

News

Better the bullfrog you know

News

Probing me softly

News

Fast-track TB cure

News

Sliced or fried?

News

Midnight sunburn

News

Beam me through

News

Rip up the shag pile if you want to lose weight

News

Global warming, global fever

News

Technology

I know what you're feeling

News

Technology

No cash back

News

Technology

Rhythm with vision

News

Pushy beasts get more neighbours

News

VR banishes the demons

News

How cancer could save your bacon

News

Turing's test goes back to kindergarten

News

Till death us do part

News

A planet is born

News

Turn off your phone, or we'll do it for you

News

First to spot an anthrax attack

News

We hear that...

News

Graffiti gang targets pristine space rock

News

Phone safety debate reignites

News

A tradition abused

News

Dispatches

News

Soundbites

News

Cloning law impasse leaves US in limbo

News

World's flowers bloom after recount

News

Vaccine riskier than smallpox, says US

News

Environment

News

Are hundreds of British baby deaths and defects down to Chernobyl?

News

Australia's asylum plans clash with bird on the brink

News

TV fails World Cup test

News

Feeling good? you'll never guess why

News

Pea-sized 'bomb' could clear a city

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.

Humans

Washington diary

SOME called it a small miracle. But perhaps they spoke too soon. What they found miraculous was a report from the Bush administration earlier this month about global warming. It stated in utmost detail that the planet was indeed warming up, with many chapters and verses about the painful consequences for North America. And, mirabile …

Opinion

Spirit of Mendel

Opinion

Grapevine

Opinion

A poor bargain

Opinion

Dirty business

Opinion

A new look for New Scientist

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.

All in the mind

In the summer of 1955 something odd happened at London's Royal Free Hospital. It began in the middle of July, when a doctor and a ward sister fell ill on the same day and had to be admitted to their own hospital. Both had multiple symptoms, including lassitude and pain in the abdomen. By 25 …

Features

Game over

Features

Boys won't be boys

Features

Blood diamonds and oil

Features

Core reality

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.

Out in paperback

THERE is a fine line between a tease and a lie on a book cover. Take Paul Davies's How to Build a Time Machine (Penguin, £6.99). He doesn't tell us any such thing, of course. But his lucid discussion of wormholes edges us down the road to time travel. So we'll let him off. But …

Books & Arts

This is her life

Books & Arts

Nelly and her cousins

Books & Arts

Dinosaurs of the Air by Gregory Paul

Books & Arts

Sinister, dexter

Books & Arts

Seeing is believing

Books & Arts

One, two...

Books & Arts

Mars, ahoy!

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

READERS Martin and Stephanie Burton had a disagreement about measurements when they were decorating their house. They wanted to put up a dado rail in their living room, so Stephanie measured up the space in feet and inches. But Martin pointed out that even in Britain "everything comes in metric these days", so she measured …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop