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1 May 2004

Issue 2445

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Forty years of rabbit rage

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The anatomy of despair

Features
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One rate to rule them all

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Clock-watchers

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

Get ready for invasion of the traffic cones

IT SOUNDS like a driver's worst nightmare. Herds of traffic cones swarm onto a highway, closing down lanes and slowing the traffic. But it's no bad dream. The robotic road markers have been developed by Shane Farritor, a roboticist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in a bid to help reduce the $100 billion per year …

News

Technology

Brain wave

News

Technology

Cut the corner

News

Technology

Hearing the light

News

Technology

Hardware hackers back in business

News

Technology

Flower power

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Technology

GPS echoes help monitor Earth

News

Technology

Superglue fingers bomb suspects

News

Technology

Cutting Edge

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Boats drown out orcas' cries

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Mucus is key to making babies

News

Are sweltering clouds of Venus a refuge for life?

News

Neanderthals led a life less human

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Life

Inside the neanderthal mind

News

Shape-shift swimmer discovers master stroke

News

Volcanoes take their holidays in the middle of the year

News

Oxygen atmosphere not a fire risk

News

Colourful menu

News

Schizophrenia hits migrants

News

Turmeric may help treat cystic fibrosis

News

The weak force is with the clockwise electrons

News

Soundbites

News

Controlling pain by watching your brain

News

We hear that…

News

Are lava tubes first evidence of life?

News

China's SARS cases sound alarm over lab security

News

Australia Feels the heat

News

Quantum finance

News

A bill too far?

News

E-voting fiasco

News

Brood x wakes from big sleep

News

Ditch the fizz

News

EU-turn

News

60 Seconds

News

Nuclear disarray as Europe pushes east

News

A greener Europe?

News

Health

Single test reveals how fast HIV is spreading

News

Popeye cure for blindness

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

WHO would have thought that washing your face with tap water could be so dangerous? According to New Scientist (10 January, p 15) it can be, for people who wash while wearing contact lenses. They risk the ravages of a water-borne amoeba called Acanthamoeba which can cause a painful and potentially blinding eye infection. About …

Opinion

How the serpent shed its skin

Opinion

Why our fears about fat are misplaced

Opinion

The whole truth

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.

Forty years of rabbit rage

In the mid-1920s, a series of pamphlets appeared on the streets of Melbourne published underthe name of one William Rodier. The pamphlets' lurid cartoons raged against complacent landowners for not having employed his technique to control the rabbits that had ravaged the Australian countryside. Theyalso predicted dire consequencesforthe future of Australia if the rabbit plague …

Features

The anatomy of despair

Features

One rate to rule them all

Features

Clock-watchers

Features

More

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Heaps of history

The Moundbuilders by George R. Milner, Thames and Hudson, £28.00, ISBN 050002118X Reviewed by Nicholas Saunders ACROSS eastern North America, from 3000 BC to the 16th century AD, native Amerindians' monumental earthworks took different shapes for purposes that embraced politics, religion and burial. There can be no single explanation of these monuments, but archaeologists still …

Books & Arts

Stifled by the net

Books & Arts

Groaning in the rain

Books & Arts

Lovely little thinker

Books & Arts

Picture yourself in a cave…

Books & Arts

Escape the flake

Books & Arts

Should I Be Tested for Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch

Books & Arts

The Harmonious Universe by Keith Laidler

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

EASTER is over for another year, but for one chocolate shop in the south of England the memory lingers on with an expensive pile of useless Easter eggs. The shop's speciality is to use a clever machine to trace a child's – or adult's – name on the chocolate shell in white icing. Customers take …

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