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17 April 2004

Issue 2443

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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.

Riddle of the fronds

Features
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From tyres to neutrinos

Features
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Argentina's bitter harvest

Features
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Brute of Dragon Bone Hill

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

Broadband web link goes wireless

WE ARE on the verge of a revolution that will bring wireless broadband to the masses. Today almost everyone who wants high-speed access to the internet relies on wires connecting them with a telephone exchange. But in about five years' time all you will have to do is switch on your laptop and the web …

News

Technology

Cutting Edge

News

Technology

Does it walk? Does it roll? ... no, it rolks

News

Technology

Hubble's red heir

News

Technology

Marine bugs have a flair for deep-sea mining

News

Technology

Relight my briar

News

Technology

Knead to know

News

Technology

Wobbling the pirates

News

Technology

Metal debris threatens craft

News

Technology

Coming soon: seat by seat subtitles

News

Carefree birds see less need to flock

News

Wipe away bad memories

News

Antibodies break the cell barrier

News

Debris points to massive impact

News

Fat into bone

News

Archaeopteryx turns out to be singular bird of a feather

News

How T-rays spot skin cancer

News

Glaciers skate on thick water

News

Infections explain why our blood groups differ

News

Surprise end to star-studded film

News

Ladies' fingers give ulcer bugs the slip

News

Crab throws light on Titan's big air

News

Environment

Stone Age cats made great pets

News

Space

Is space rolled up like a funnel?

News

Taboos could save the seas

News

Brazilian evasion

News

Clamour for badger results

News

Licence to thrill

News

Eyeball this

News

Epic countdown

News

60 Seconds

News

Ending the nightmare

News

Sun's halo linked to dark matter particle

News

Soundbites

News

Osmium's 15 minutes of fame

News

'Mad sheep' fears

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.

Inventive minds

From implantable pacemakers and fusion reactors to laid-back cyclists and X-ray crystallography, ideasjust seem to tumble out of them. Are inventors a different breed? What makes them do what they do? And how come so many of them, in theirZOs and 80s, are still looking at the world with fresh eyes ? New Scientist talked …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Believe it or not

Opinion

Growing pains

Opinion

And here is the weather for 2006

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.

Riddle of the fronds

Each year, on 14 April, Japanese seaweed farmers gatheron a headland overlooking the Ariake Sea, a deep notch carved out of the southern island of Kyushu. Many of the farmers make their living in the waters below, others travel from coastal towns and villages elsewhere in Japan. They come to celebrate the life of a …

Features

From tyres to neutrinos

Features

Argentina's bitter harvest

Features

Brute of Dragon Bone Hill

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.

Ian Stewart, mathematician

On your bedside table? John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor (Secker & Warburg, 1961) is "one of my all-time favourites – I bought it when I was in the sixth form – which my wife Avril and I are slowly re-reading". It's high comedy, set in Virginia in the 17th century: "Bawdy and brilliant and very, …

Books & Arts

Steve Sanderson, president and CEO of New York's Wildlife Conservation Society

Books & Arts

Healthy benefits

Careers

Sixteen steps to Isaac

Books & Arts

Good for globalisation

Books & Arts

Over his head

Books & Arts

Location, location

Books & Arts

Who's that bird?

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

SEND in the marine geologists! The Seattle Times reports a skilful assertion by University of Washington marine geologist John Delaney about the relevance of his work – or is it a disguised plea for funding? The ST summarises Delaney's argument thus: "The ability to grow food on land is directly tied to the ocean's motion. …

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Letters

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