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25 unusual facts about New Scientist


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In 1999 articles in the journal New Scientist, Lingua Franca and the Philosophers' Magazine focused more attention on the project.

Catherine Verfaillie

The British biomedical publication New Scientist declared it as the "ultimate stem cell discovery".

First reports on potential problems with Verfaillie's group's work came in early 2007 when New Scientist reported that the 2002 Nature paper had some of the images appear in a second paper published at about the same time.

Chang Chun-Yen

2009: Exclusive interview by New Scientist, titled "Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades"

City at the End of Time

New Scientist described the first half of the book as "a gripping, original tale", but complained that in the second half Bear over-complicates the story with "too many ideas, images, mythologies and distractions".

Dan Falk

He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

It has been the subject of TV programs on the BBC, the National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, and of numerous articles in magazines such as New Scientist, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.

Ebu gogo

An article in New Scientist (Vol. 186, No. 2504) gives the following account of folklore on Flores surrounding the Ebu Gogo: The Nage people of central Flores tell how, in the 18th century, villagers disposed of the Ebu Gogo by tricking them into accepting gifts of palm fiber to make clothes.

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why was reviewed in New Scientist by journalist Deborah Blum, who called it "rational, smart and compassionate" but also observed that it showed that scientific understanding of sexual orientation had advanced less than might be hoped since LeVay's 1991 study.

Geordi La Forge

New Scientist magazine reported on research as to whether a device similar to a VISOR can actually be created for blind or visually impaired people.

Gert Holstege

He was quoted in a New Scientist article as saying, "At the moment of orgasm, women do not have any emotional feelings."

Itzhak Bars

Itzhak Bars's theory was a featured cover story in New Scientist magazine on October 13, 2007, and was again a featured cover story in Filosofia magazine on October 26, 2011.

Katrina Voss

In an August 2009 issue of New Scientist, she took a controversial position on DNA privacy.

Kirsty McCabe

During her time at Oxford she was offered a three-month internship at New Scientist magazine where she went on to work as a sub-editor for four years.

Lois H. Gresh

They have been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, and other television and radio programs.

London Buses route 14

In 1957 the route was used as the basis for a New Scientist magazine study into congestion on London streets.

New Scientist

Ariadne, which later moved to Nature, commented every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of (fictitious) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the (fictitious) DREADCO corporation.

In the first episode of the 2012 British sitcom Friday Night Dinner, a character is shown to obsessively collect the magazine.

Pallab Ghosh

He began his career in the British electronics and computer press before joining New Scientist as the magazine's science news editor.

Paul S. Wesson

Most of his articles have appeared in the standard journals for astronomy and theoretical physics, but he has also written pieces for New Scientist and other magazines of popular science.

Pestival

Pestival 2009 also hosted the symposium How insect are we? at ZSL London Zoo, chaired by New Scientist editor Roger Highfield.

Research Fortnight

Research Fortnight was founded in 1994 by William Cullerne Bown, then a reporter at New Scientist.

Sheerness

A 2004 report published in New Scientist warned that an explosion could occur if sea water penetrated the bombs.

Shimane Nuclear Power Plant

New Scientist magazine has reported that, in June 2006, a previously unknown geological fault was identified close to the Shimane Nuclear Power Plant, but it is expected to be years before the plant is strengthened.

Tim Low

It won the Westfield/Waverley Award for Literature and was listed as a number one best seller in New Scientist (Australia).


1996 Mount Everest disaster

In May 2004, Kent Moore, a physicist, and John L. Semple, a surgeon, both researchers from the University of Toronto, told New Scientist magazine that an analysis of weather conditions on May 11 suggested that freak weather caused oxygen levels to plunge by around 14%.

ExitMundi.nl

The website got many good reviews on- and offline, in magazines as diverse as New Scientist, Playboy and several Dutch leading newspapers.

Jem Stansfield

Among his inventions are a compressed-air powered motorcycle, and boots that walk on water (for which he won a New Scientist prize).

Joshua Wurman

Popular articles describing his work have appeared in Discovery magazine, Scientific American, New Scientist, The Economist, Biography, FHM, Self, The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and many other publications.

Katrina Karkazis

Media coverage of sport issues includes American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, New York Times and Time, often in collaboration with Rebecca Jordan-Young.

Richard van der Riet Woolley

In a 1995 letter to New Scientist, J.A. Terry and John Rudge pointed out that the quotation ascribed to Woolley is actually a misquotation of what he actually said (as they had heard themselves on Radio Newsreel), which was "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really.".

Timothy Raison

Sir Timothy Hugh Francis Raison (3 November 1929 – 3 November 2011) was a British Conservative politician who began his career as a journalist, first working on Picture Post (of which his father, Maxwell Raison, was managing editor), then New Scientist.

TV80

New Scientist warned that the technology used by the device would be short-lived, in view of the liquid crystal display technology being developed by Casio.