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3 April 2004

Issue 2441

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I spy with my little eye

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Welcome to the moon, Mr Armstrong

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The genius machine

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Health

Nowhere to hide

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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.

Technology

Fast track

"DOWN with the deadly rhythm of the production line," proclaimed the revolutionary posters in Paris in 1968. In reality, those French demonstrators had less to complain about than they thought, because when you look closely industrial production lines often do not have much rhythm at all. In fact, the whole notion that automated assembly lines …

News

Technology

Too many photos, too little time…

News

Technology

Where's that funny smell coming from?

News

Technology

Underground power hots up

News

Technology

Sniffing circuits

News

Technology

Parent power

News

Technology

Long-life veg

News

Technology

Battle looms over recordable DVDs

News

Family ties make for a calmer life… if you're a gorilla

News

Murder detectives must rethink maggot theory

News

China drains life from Mekong river

News

Drug might stop kids getting diabetes

News

Technology

Cutting Edge

News

Health

No foreskin means less risk of HIV infection

News

Revealed: the recipe for a lab rat

News

Mosquitoes could help stop malaria

News

Perfect lens has sharpest view

News

New blood without rejection

News

Fish bullies beat up the small fry

News

Hale-Bopp keeps its cool despite hot little secret

News

A taste of cocaine is all it takes

News

Dry quakes

News

Why we move like monkeys

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Heartbeats warn of sudden death risk

News

Soundbites

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Carbon 'footballs' harm fish

News

Blame them on the fairies

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Cold coral comfort

News

Quick as a flash

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'No more polio cases by 2005'

News

Grin and bear it

News

No to clean coal

News

Bad influence

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

What lies beneath

News

Scramjet hits hypersonic high

News

Opinion

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Swimming with sharks

Brought up on the water in a fishing family, in his teens Sean Van Sommeran worked on commercial fishing boats. Then he worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for the California Department of Fish and Game. He founded the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

No way to treat inventions

Opinion

Health

Editorial: No more excuses

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.

I spy with my little eye

IT'S not often that someone discovers an oddity new to science while testing some home-made gadget in a car park. But it can happen, as astronomers Tim Brown and David Charbonneau know. In 1999, while tuning a telescope whose optics Brown had cobbled together in his garage, the pair made the first sighting of a …

Features

Welcome to the moon, Mr Armstrong

Features

The genius machine

Features

Health

Nowhere to hide

Features

More

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Big birds

Magnificent Mihirungs by Peter F. Murray and Patricia Vickers-Rich, Indiana University Press, $75, ISBN 0253342821 Reviewed by Jeff Hecht MORE than 50 million years ago, a primal goose-like bird landed in Australia and decided that flying just wasn't worth the effort. Its descendants evolved into flightless avian giants called mihirungs or Dromornithids, which survived until …

Books & Arts

Tales from underground

Books & Arts

Software history

Books & Arts

Fly me to Mars

Books & Arts

Enlightened biology

Books & Arts

Natural rebel

Books & Arts

In the north country

Books & Arts

Terrible lizards

Books & Arts

Brain training

Books & Arts

The long road to the mind

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

RUNNING a teleconference isn't usually beyond even modestly techno-savvy people, but it almost foiled NASA when the agency tried to tell journalists about its efforts to return the space shuttle to flight. Reporters duly called in before the planned telephone press conference, expecting to hear something from NASA. Instead, they heard a radio news programme. …

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