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21 August 2004

Issue 2461

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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.

Trick of the light

Features
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Snakes in suits

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It's just a matter of time…

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Intemperate Society

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The doomsday wreck

Earth

The doomsday wreck

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

An eye for danger

A HAND-HELD device that measures the contraction of the pupils of accident victims in response to bright light will help to ensure they get the correct treatment. When paramedics are called to an accident one of the first things they do is shine a light in the eyes of the survivors to see how their …

News

Technology

Turing test is total turn-off for robots

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Protecting computers against 'evil' emails

News

Technology

The 'snap' that spells danger

News

Technology

A singing and dancing mobile

News

Technology

Instant filing

News

Technology

US campaign trail takes to the net

News

Keep pushing for a smooth delivery

News

Heatwaves are here to stay

News

Therapy trauma

News

If you go down to the woods today, you'll be helping the bears

News

Did life begin in a space prefab?

News

Unique moon may partner Sedna

News

Caution over modified crops

News

When temperature loses its meaning

News

Climate change hits base of food chain

News

Plant mimic may be cure for malaria

News

Lamarckism finds new lease of life in a prion

News

Twisted magnetic fields fire jets from black holes

News

Variety really is the spice of life

News

How minds play tricks with words and colours

News

Soundbites

News

Hydrogen: saviour or fatal distraction

News

Life

UK cloners target diabetes cure

News

Love the maverick

News

Charley pulls deadly swerve

News

Terminator sinks solar goal

News

This rail don't fly

News

Crude estimates

News

Bird flu hits back

News

60 Seconds

News

Unseen failings of primate research

News

Stem cells in space

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

BOB HOLMES reports that Daniel Stinger and Farouk Mian have set up a company in Sugar Land, Texas, to market a way of harvesting energy from waste heat using a "cascading closed-loop cycle" (New Scientist, 29 May, p 21) . Accompanying the article was a picture of chimneys belching steam and smoke, with the caption: …

Opinion

Cheating Chernobyl

Opinion

Health

Mental health matters

Opinion

Running on empty

Opinion

Features

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Trick of the light

It's a simple device – a set of vanes mounted on a spindle, enclosed in a partially evacuated glass bulb. Each vane is silvered on one side and blackened on the other. When the Crookes radiometer is placed in sunlight or near heat, the vanes spin round. The commonly held view is that it is …

Features

Snakes in suits

Features

It's just a matter of time…

Features

Intemperate Society

Features

Earth

The doomsday wreck

Features

More

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Heavyweight celebrity

Clara's Grand Tour by Glynis Ridley, Atlantic Books, £14.99, ISBN 184354010X Reviewed by Roy Herbert IT IS easy to feel affection for Clara. She was a celebrity, fond of the smells of tobacco and oranges, and drank beer. She was 6 feet in height, 12 feet round the middle and she weighed 3 tons. She …

Books & Arts

Warped mind-time

Books & Arts

Big-boned book

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - London

Books & Arts

A pill for every ill

Books & Arts

Fissile fiction

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

VISITORS to the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, would be forgiven for fearing that their breakfast had been spiked. They may well be treated to the sight of a black-caped figure wearing a horror-movie mask running round the campus after a large flightless bird, while a colleague manoeuvres a stuffed jaguar on a …

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