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12 June 2004

Issue 2451

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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.

Life

Animal minds: It's good to bark

Features
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Life

Animal minds: Don't call me bird-brain

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Life

Animal minds: Here's looking at ewe

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Life

Animal minds: Trait spotting

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Life

Animal minds: Can you guess what I'm thinking?

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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.

Life

Animal minds: Not just a pretty face

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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.

Life

Animal minds

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Twisting the light away

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Mutants, one and all

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

Cutting edge

FIND ME A PARKING SPACE The mad dash for that last parking space is about to go ballistic. Engineers at Boston University and networking firm BBN Technology have designed a wireless network that will send details of the nearest vacant parking spot to an in-car receiver. Delegates to Mobisys, a mobile technology conference in Boston …

News

Technology

Can implants run on body heat?

News

Technology

Go on, spoil their fun

News

Technology

That double click will cost you

News

Technology

Fighting the tide of dangerous fakes

News

O jellyfish, where is thy sting?

News

Technology

Vigilantes on the net

News

Hard lessons, sound sleep

News

Incinerators linked to twin births

News

Technology

Mars rovers set to scale heights

News

Technology

Liquid crystals spill beans on anthrax

News

Pterosaurs went for the soft shell

News

Javan ash rises from flightless bird

News

Stars conceived out of thin air

News

Complexity first

News

Naked approach to gene therapy

News

Aerosols form in a cocktail of smoke and fumes

News

DNA in action coming soon to a screen near you

News

First stars born to the tune of a deafening hiss

News

Memory fails you after severe stress

News

Black holes drive speedy particles to new highs

News

Crisis in Sudan

News

60 Seconds

News

The rush to pick a perfect embryo

News

Higgs hunt gets heavy

News

Spinal trial raises hopes

News

Flame retardant shows up in Arctic

News

And the forecast for AD 17,004 is…

News

Soundbites

News

US to slash nuclear arsenal

News

Digital pollution

News

Glaxo lawsuit

News

Civilian space shot scheduled

News

U-turn on goo

News

Eco-blockade

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.

Missile defence misses

WHEN the US air force began work on the Airborne Laser a decade ago (New Scientist, 18 June 1994, p 4), it was aiming to build a weapon that could stop ballistic missile launches by "rogue states". After 10 years and more than $2 billion spent, the project is still struggling to get anywhere. It …

Opinion

They seek Higgs here…

Opinion

Boy or girl? Best leave it to chance

Opinion

Features

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Life

Animal minds: It's good to bark

IT'S 6 am and that wretched dog is off again. Fuming, you wonder what has triggered his latest barking frenzy. But before you reach for your slipper, stop and listen. Perhaps he really is trying to tell you something. It seems that in the millennia our two species have lived together – somewhere between 15,000 …

Features

Life

Animal minds: Don't call me bird-brain

Features

Life

Animal minds: Here's looking at ewe

Features

Life

Animal minds: Trait spotting

Features

Life

Animal minds: Can you guess what I'm thinking?

Features

Life

Animal minds: Not just a pretty face

Features

Life

Animal minds

Features

Twisting the light away

Features

Mutants, one and all

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.

Blockbuster challenge

LOOK in the Collins English Dictionary and you will discover that a blockbuster is "a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas or strengthened targets". In the parlance of the pharmaceutical industry, a blockbuster is something slightly different: a drug that blows away the opposition by generating sales exceeding a magic threshold of $1 billion …

Careers

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

THREE weeks ago we reported that Mike Wellstead (who we wrongly named Mike Westwind) had bought a fixed exercise bike inappropriately named Explorer. This, in turn, reminded him of the Impact driving school. We suggested dubbing these unsuitable names antinyms, and wondered if readers had come across other examples. You certainly had, and here is …

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