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5 October 1996

Issue 2050

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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.

Some bugs like it hot

Features
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Stressed out

Features
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Starburst memories

Features
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Year of the rat

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Technology : Doubts surface on Net cleanup

TO STEM the flow of pornography on the Internet, the British government will rely on the public to report sites containing the material, and the Internet service providers (ISPs) to stop their subscribers accessing it. There will be no new laws. If illegal material still gets through, the police will use existing laws to prosecute …

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Technology

Technology : Probe sheds light on the brain

News

Technology

Technology : Fibres are a printer's best friend

News

Technology

Technology : Virtual `tour' could prevent colon cancer

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Technology

Technology : Simple blood test may replace amniocentesis

News

Technology

Technology : Lopsided modem boosts speed

News

Technology

Technology : Happy hunting keeps captive cheetahs in shape

News

Technology

Technology : X-rays cut chips down to size

News

Science : Weird dark matter makes gravity wobble

News

Science : Have fake fossils fooled experts?

News

Science : Smart algae steer clear of water fleas

News

Science : The genes that maketh man

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Science : Sponges trip the light fantastic

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Science : Swimming-pool gas is in the blood

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Science : Genes that go with a smoother flow

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Science : Sandy remnants of ancient hearths

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Science : An alternative history of the Earth

News

Messengers of death - With virtually no safety regulations to protect them, despatch riders on piecework are a danger to themselves—and to anyone else on the road

News

Bacteria could clean up Cold War chemicals

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Rowdy buses give off bad vibes

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Arms dumps

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Record-busting dam

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A fruit in winter

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Flying a satellite

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Fossil rustlers

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Menacing subs

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AIDS epidemic slows in France

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British psychology faces oblivion

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Animal vaccine drives out danger bugs

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Doomsday has been postponed

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Penguin chicks swim into trouble

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Ignorant bosses give sick patients the sack

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Space agency at crisis point

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Cancer charities tighten rules on `dirty money'

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Plague of pigs strips Germany bare

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Birds knocked from top of endangered list

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League tables just don't add up

News

Opinion

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Editorial: Fantasy league

STATISTICS has been described as "the science which tells you that if you lie with your head in the oven and your feet in the fridge, on average you'll be comfortably warm". Such parodies can only be encouraged by the news that the British government's league tables for schools and health authorities contain basic flaws …

Opinion

Editorial : Why the mind matters - PSYCHOLOGY has always had to fight for its place in the pantheon of "true" sciences. But the battle is getting harder. Last year Robert Walker, chairman of the US Congressional committee on science, declared that governm

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.

Some bugs like it hot

IMAGINE a container full of nuclear waste buried 1 kilometre below the Earth's surface—a subterranean oven packed with steel, clay, concrete and radioactive material. If you thought such a place is of no interest to microbiologists, you'd be wrong. After all, if bacteria once survived the rigours of Mars, as some NASA scientists believe, why …

Features

Stressed out

Features

Starburst memories

Features

Year of the rat

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.

Forum : Meditations on the campaign trail

ON A late afternoon in downtown Washington DC, particle physicist John Hagelin begins his acceptance speech as the Natural Law Party nominee for President of the United States. His voice is smooth and hypnotic; the audience is entranced. He pauses, smiles, then waits for the cheers to subside. I'm the only one laughing. Until recently, …

Forum

Thistle diary : Water, water everywhere, but the wrong place - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum : Where are all the extraterrestrials?

Forum

Review : Chemical habits

Books & Arts

Review : Cheltenham day out

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Sydney

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Antipodes : Biological weapons aimed at invading pests - Ian Lowe examines Australia's attempts to curtail introduced species

Forum

Review : Buried pleasure

Books & Arts

Review : In loving memory of humankind

Books & Arts

Review : Pill poppers

Books & Arts

Review : Climb every mountain

Books & Arts

Review : Polluters are revolting

Books & Arts

Review : Wipeout

Books & Arts

Review : Touching sea shells

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Review : Father of the jet

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Review : Glorious dioxin

Books & Arts

Review : Anorak gospel

Books & Arts

Review : News reel

Books & Arts

Review : The game of life

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HEADLINES , as any experienced journalist will tell you, are an art form. They should draw you into reading the article, while telling you something about the story. The following headlines were sent to us by Gaby Vanhegan, who was sent them by a friend via the Net. They come, we are told, from "the …

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