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25 May 1996

Issue 2031

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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.

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

Features
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Body of evidence

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All aboard the Pluto Express

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Panning for data gold

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer

COLON cancers transplanted into mice have been persuaded to self-destruct by an experimental form of gene therapy. Pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo Wellcome devised the technique with the Cancer Research Campaign and hopes to begin trials in people within the next 18 months. First the mice are injected with a virus that smuggles a special gene into …

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Technology : What goes up stays up a little longer

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Patents : Plea for more cash for innovators

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Patents : Light brigade

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Patents : Gotta chew

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Patents : See hear

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Patents : Pop-up TV

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Patents : Mary, Mary

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Technology : One step nearer the Sun

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Technology

Technology : Look out, it's behind you

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Science : How to give a dinosaur the hump

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Science : Glowing embers at the edge of time

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Technology

Technology : Do-it-all protein helps kidney repair

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Technology

Technology : Second-hand PCs `will sink Internet machines'

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Technology

Technology : Big fat tokamak gets thumbs-up

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Science : Sunspots send winter storms flying north

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Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe

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Science : Squaring HIV's vicious circle

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Science : Larvae give dancing bees bad vibes

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Science : Fossil finds don't toe the line

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US feed ban

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Safe weight loss

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Gene battle

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Fire alarm

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Record breaker

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Farming for distant degrees - Students on remote crofts in Scotland's Highlands and Islands are about to join the 21st century as education's electronic revolution brings lectures into their homes

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Science : Mutants tear up nature's timetable

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Swiss planned a nuclear bomb

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All eyes on near-miss asteroid

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Scourge of infections kills Third World's young

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LA's garden gas guzzlers die for a good cause

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Plug a leak and save the world

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What's it like to be a gorilla?

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France ignores benefits of folic acid

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Military cash tempts more universities

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Wide awake surgery keeps killer cells on the alert

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Navy's bureaucrats cling to `open secrets'

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Mexico fishes for end to tuna ban

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Cold shoulder for climate research

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Forensic lab awash with Semtex

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Opinion

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Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own - FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility. Using the most sensitive gas chromatography machines, they can search samples for the tiniest traces of explosives. A mere 5 nanograms—just five billionths of a gram—of RDX, one of the two components of Semtex, might be enough to link a suspect to …

Opinion

Editorial : Time to bury inflation? - ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t

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.

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

"WHAT bugs you about your face?" demands Dr Arnold Klein, dermatologist to Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and now New Scientist's Los Angeles office. There is plenty to choose from. He's already pointed out that my upper lip is discoloured, the mark of a past pregnancy. The skin sags more on the left side of my …

Features

Body of evidence

Features

All aboard the Pluto Express

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Panning for data gold

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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.

The Milky Way

DON'T mess with the Milky Way Galaxy. In 1994, astronomers discovered the ruins of a dwarf galaxy that had strayed too close to the shores of our Galaxy and was being ripped apart by its tide. This luckless object was our Galaxy's latest victim, and its stars will soon be devoured by the Milky Way's …

Inside Science

Washington diary : Under wraps and on the rocks - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

AustralAsian : Telemedicine in need of a check-up - Bob Johnstone finds Australia is unprepared for Asian health boom

Forum

Enigma 876 : Short circuit

Forum

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : The trouble with Piggy's specs

Forum

Forum : Nature green in leaf and stem

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Review : Raining facts

Books & Arts

Review : Hawkeye

Books & Arts

Review : Flora's daughters

Books & Arts

Review : Master of the skulls

Books & Arts

Review : Green grow the literati, oh

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

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Review : Pulling them in

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Review : Doing the rounds

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Review : Prizewinners

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Review : Enfants sauvages

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Review : Zoo-ology

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Review : Bomb ROM

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Review : Written in the genes

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Review : Space, sex and sums

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Regulars

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The Last Word

Resonant request Q: Why are metals sonorous? Our physics and chemistry A level teacher does not know and no reason is given in any of the textbooks we can find. A: A sonorous material makes a ringing noise when struck—striking a material puts a force on it and it deforms slightly. If it is an …

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