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12 October 1996

Issue 2051

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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.

Far out forecasting

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.

Resistance is useless

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.

Oracle of the oceans

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.

Bless their cotton genes

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.

Bytes :

The more things change... There's a certain irony in the fact that 15 months after selling the national backbone of its Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) to Telstra, the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee (AV-CC) is contemplating restoring dedicated links between the new state-based university computer networks. Telstra used the AARNet backbone as the basis of …

News

Frozen clouds accelerate ozone destruction

News

Scan : What a relief

News

Scan : Cutting edge

News

Scan : On the job

News

Scan : The full story

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research : in the lab

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Research : in the field

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Science : Changing places

News

Scan : Daniel Ford ...downloaded

News

Technology

Technology : Green glow tags escapee genes

News

Technology

Technology : Smart, but not that smart

News

Technology

Technology : Cells line up for a complex future

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Technology : Skinny speakers break all the rules

News

Technology

Technology : Buckyballs make a point

News

Technology

Technology : Shapely vaccine targets chlamydia

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Science : Strange brew may lurk in pulsating stars

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Science : DNA detectives quiz liver virus that stole our gene

News

Science : Frantic courtship leads to an early grave

News

Technology

Technology : Rosy future for red aspens

News

Science : Gut bacteria recycle rivals' waste

News

Science : Cool honeybees don't get in a flap

News

Science : Fresh angle on dead dinosaurs

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Science : Crafty virus turns down the heat

News

African nations sow seeds of hope

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Don't fight nature to save endangered species

News

Tied to the hand that feeds - For years, the West thought it was good for business. Now many countries want to end the practice of forcing poor nations to buy goods from donor countries in return for aid

News

Long dry spells, outlook gloomy

News

Fish imports are `absolute lunacy'

News

Australia abandons asteroid watch

News

The decline and fall of academe

News

Power station failure adds to Delhi's woes

News

Spy technology joins the fight against breast cancer

News

One leak too many for Dounreay

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Extra iron makes blue deserts bloom

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Britain's sea walls too low to stop floods

News

Pentagon anthrax plan `sends the wrong message'

News

Simple twist of fate leads to Nobel prize

News

Opinion

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Editorial : Just add iron and stir . . . - FOR the researchers, it felt like watering the desert for the first time. When British and American marine scientists poured ferrous sulphate onto a large patch of ocean west of the Galápagos Islands in Ma

FOR the researchers, it felt like watering the desert for the first time. When British and American marine scientists poured ferrous sulphate onto a large patch of ocean west of the Galápagos Islands in May last year, they produced a dramatic "bloom" of algae that lasted for weeks, sucking up carbon dioxide from the ocean …

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.

Far out forecasting

When Hurricane Fran swept towards America's eastern seaboard last month, it was not just the residents of North Carolina who were quaking. Insurance companies also kept a fearful eye on the weather reports. Would Fran run out of puff after striking land, or would she turn into a monster like Hurricane Andrew of 1992, and …

Features

Resistance is useless

Features

Oracle of the oceans

Features

Bless their cotton genes

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.

Review : Collected works

BUDDING mathematicians will always discover magic in numbers. But not every child is mathematically inclined. Chanting the mantra of the times table may teach multiplication, but it does not necessarily foster the mathematical skills to assess risk and probability in everyday situations—whether contemplating medical advice or the National Lottery. Innumeracy is often caused by an …

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Contaminated lands

Inside Science

Forum : Clean cars will power the country - Oliver Tickell foresees the end of giant electricity generators

Forum

Thistle diary : Villains of the air and sea - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Antipodes : Has the culling of in-house expertise gone too far? - Ian Lowe finds Telstra is cutting back on research

Forum

Review : Magnetic charms

Books & Arts

Review : See through

Books & Arts

Review : Whither weather?

Books & Arts

Review : Lost in transit

Books & Arts

Review : Horseman of the Apocalypse

Books & Arts

Review : Express delivery books

Books & Arts

Forum : Fatal attractions

Forum

Review : One man and his bucket

Books & Arts

Review : Forest idyll

Books & Arts

Review : Moral maze

Books & Arts

Review : Designer universe

Books & Arts

Review : Hot under the crust

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Hot feet Q: I have an open fire. One day, pushing a log on the fire with my big toe when wearing socks, a bluish-yellow flame ignited and danced around my whole foot. The flame went out almost immediately, but I felt the heat and there was a very faint smell of burning on the …

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