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25 September 2004

Issue 2466

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Their Führer's voice

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Don't go breaking my heart

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The jumble cruncher

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What are the chances?

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In the lap of the gods

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

Send in the rescue rats

RATS equipped with radios that transmit their brainwaves could soon be helping to locate earthquake survivors buried in the wreckage of collapsed buildings. Rats have an exquisitely sensitive sense of smell and can crawl just about anywhere. This combination make them ideal candidates for sniffing out buried survivors. For that the animals need to be …

News

Technology

This call centre knows it all

News

Technology

Call 911, the phone will do the rest

News

Technology

Burgers or nuggets? Check out the car, Bob

News

Technology

Smooth rowing

News

Technology

Making movies unwatchable

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Virtual brokers forecast real stocks

News

Motion deafness

News

Asthma is in the blood

News

What caused the collapse of Easter Island civilisation?

News

Monkeys hear no evil in bad music

News

Space

Why oceans on Mars have proved so elusive

News

How to keep the spring in your heart

News

Smaller giants

News

Saving Earth from sheep burps

News

Enough wind to power the world

News

They lost wings, not brain size

News

Soundbites

News

Fury at UK's plans to ship hot waste out to Kyrgyzstan

News

Wandering Jupiter took trek towards the sun

News

Clear the slime, banish the mozzies

News

Killer parasite follows people into the cities

News

Crying wolf over predator attacks

News

Bentgrass breaks record for spread of modified genes

News

Lack of vaccine raises fears of flu pandemic

News

Building row over asbestos

News

Premie dilemma

News

Mega-scanner

News

Hurricane cycle yet to reach its peak

News

Nuclear détente

News

Target Earth

News

Ivory plunder

News

60 Seconds

News

Malarial onslaught sparks call to arms

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

THREE hurricanes in quick succession are enough to grab anyone's attention. With the Caribbean reeling from just such a triple whammy, the south-eastern US is wondering what on earth caused so many to sweep through in less than two months. Among the first suspects, at least from non-scientists, is "global warming". Well, it might be…or …

Opinion

Cures before cash

Opinion

Technology

We have a problem

Opinion

Healthy investment

Opinion

Features

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Their Führer's voice

September 1944 was not the ideal time to be making music in Berlin. The Allies had landed on the French beaches, had liberated Paris and were closing in on the German capital. Allied bombers were pounding the city and Hitler had given the order to launch the first V-2 rockets at London. Although no one …

Features

Don't go breaking my heart

Features

The jumble cruncher

Features

What are the chances?

Features

In the lap of the gods

Features

More

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Dreaming Reality: How dreaming keeps us sane, or can drive us mad by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell

Dreaming Reality: How dreaming keeps us sane, or can drive us mad by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, HG Publishing, £16.99, ISBN 1899398368 WHY we, and apparently other animals, dream is a mystery of science. Or at least it would be, if these private phenomena of the night fell within the grasp of science. Scientists …

Books & Arts

People watcher

Books & Arts

MMR: Science and fiction by Richard Horton and, MMR and Autism by Michael Fitzpatrick

Books & Arts

Before Darwin

Books & Arts

On the death trail

Books & Arts

Science essay competition 2004

Books & Arts

Northern star

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

A COLLEAGUE of Feedback named Stephen is delighted to learn that he has now published a paper with Stephen Hawking, as well as Nobel laureates Steven Weinberg and Stephen Chu. "The Morphology of Steve" by Eugenie Scott, Nicholas Matzke, Glenn Branch and several hundred assorted Steve-oids was published in the August issue of the Annals …

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Letters

Regulars

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