Issue 2083 | Magazine cover date: 24 May 1997

24 May 1997

Issue 2083

On the cover

Features

Thank heavens for black holes - Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. <IT>David Concar</IT> meets a visionary physicist

News

Antipodes : Derecke Palmer...downloaded

Opinion

Editorial : Naming the game

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Thank heavens for black holes - Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

Features

The Internet strikes back - When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Features

Blazing chainsaws - If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

Features

SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Features

News

Antipodes : Derecke Palmer...downloaded

DERECKE Palmer is now a one-man band teaching geophysics at the University of New South Wales. In the past, he had a couple of colleagues, but student numbers in geophysics have dwindled to the point where only one staff member is justified. What troubles him is that he's not alone. Earth sciences, the discipline servicing …

News

scan : essence of innovation

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scan : language layout

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research: in the lab : The shape of the future

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changing places :

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research: in the field : Sourcing the smog

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research: in the field : Sniffing out a growth industry

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Technology

Technology : Net searches with a human touch

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Tuned in for a good night's sleep

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Technology

Technology : T-rays spell sharper, safer images

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Technology

Technology : Monkeys boost meningitis hopes

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Technology

Technology : Wind gauge is a hot number

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Technology

Technology : The plane truth about holes

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Science : Does lust for sex kill males in their prime?

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Science : Why crunching crystals makes them glow in the dark

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Science : Mice unwind the body clock

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Science : Migrating birds choose fast food

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Science : Doom star may be heading our way

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Science : Lung cancer team tracks yeast clue

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Science : Vera shows which way is up

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Can cutting out the trauma keep AIDS at bay?

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Orion and its young bright stars light up astronomers' world

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House hazards

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Hepatitis hope

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Elusive particle

News

Return to the fold

News

Missing link

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Water fight

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Seeing the wood for the trees - A dearth of information could sabotage attempts to save the world's forests. Can a radical solution help?

News

Sheep dip clue to broken bones

News

Biowar tests did not harm public

News

Radioactive barge `can be made safe'

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What am I bid for this T. rex?

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Dinosaur doctor diagnoses the disease of dukes

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Space station delay hits experiments

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Save the planet and get rich

News

Internet dealers evade drug controls

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Pollsters fume over invasion by fax

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Mighty mite saves Africa's staple food

News

Sex bias study shocks world

News

When baking bread is bad for your health

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Physicists' plans go up in flames

News

Wild dogs: handle with care

News

Opinion

Editorial : Naming the game

MEMBERS of august academic committees are invariably convinced that they are fair-minded, unprejudiced and do not let personal opinions-yet alone personal connections-interfere with their judgment. In deciding appointments and grants they are, they will tell you, particularly careful to avoid sexism, given that there is so much bad press about the lack of women in …

Opinion

Features

Thank heavens for black holes - Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

LAST century's cartoonists had it made. All they had to do was draw Charles Darwin's head, attach it to an ape's body and, hey presto, they had lampooned the most controversial scientific theory of their era. If Lee Smolin's ideas had been around at that time, they would have proved more of a challenge. Smolin …

Features

The Internet strikes back - When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Features

Blazing chainsaws - If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

Features

SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Features

Business in space

ON 4 October 1957, the space race was born when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 -the world's first artificial satellite. The satellite even carried out a few scientific experiments while it was circling the Earth more than 224 kilometres up. The first days of the space race were dominated by the Soviet Union. After …

Inside Science

Antipodes : Research spared the axe, for now... - Ian Lowe reviews the fate of science in the Australian Budget

Forum

Forum : Trawling for votes - Elections always spell bad news for fish, says Debora Mackenzie

Forum

Review : Shifty lights

Books & Arts

Review : Two worlds embrace

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : Prolonging life after death - Tam Dalyell comments from Westminster

Forum

Review : Down to the sea again

Books & Arts

Review : All over now

Books & Arts

Review : Green who's who

Books & Arts

Review : Mining the past

Books & Arts

Review : Delicious, nutritious and litigious

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Forum : Are we all conservatives now?

Forum

Review : Bubbles and butterflies

Books & Arts

Review : Hold the scalpel

Books & Arts

Review : Hunt the Martian

Books & Arts

Review : Venus in clouds

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Twister Q: Here in Zimbabwe we buy milk in plastic packets. Most people cut a tiny piece off the edge of the packet to pour the milk. I have noticed that when the milk leaves the packet under pressure it exits in a corkscrew or a spiral fashion. Of course, other liquids would behave in …

This week's magazine

24 May 1997

On the cover

Thank heavens for black holes - Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

The Internet strikes back - When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Blazing chainsaws - If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Table of contents

News

Antipodes : Derecke Palmer...downloaded

scan : essence of innovation

scan : language layout

research: in the lab : The shape of the future

changing places :

research: in the field : Sourcing the smog

research: in the field : Sniffing out a growth industry

Technology

Technology : Net searches with a human touch

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Tuned in for a good night's sleep

Technology

Technology : T-rays spell sharper, safer images

Technology

Technology : Monkeys boost meningitis hopes

Technology

Technology : Wind gauge is a hot number

Technology

Technology : The plane truth about holes

Technology

Netropolitan :

Science : Does lust for sex kill males in their prime?

Science : Why crunching crystals makes them glow in the dark

Science : Mice unwind the body clock

Science : Migrating birds choose fast food

Science : Doom star may be heading our way

Science : Lung cancer team tracks yeast clue

Science : Vera shows which way is up

Can cutting out the trauma keep AIDS at bay?

Orion and its young bright stars light up astronomers' world

House hazards

Hepatitis hope

Elusive particle

Return to the fold

Missing link

Water fight

Seeing the wood for the trees - A dearth of information could sabotage attempts to save the world's forests. Can a radical solution help?

Sheep dip clue to broken bones

Biowar tests did not harm public

Radioactive barge `can be made safe'

What am I bid for this T. rex?

Dinosaur doctor diagnoses the disease of dukes

Space station delay hits experiments

Save the planet and get rich

Internet dealers evade drug controls

Pollsters fume over invasion by fax

Mighty mite saves Africa's staple food

Sex bias study shocks world

When baking bread is bad for your health

Physicists' plans go up in flames

Wild dogs: handle with care

Opinion

Editorial : Naming the game

Features

Thank heavens for black holes - Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

The Internet strikes back - When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Blazing chainsaws - If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

More

Business in space

Antipodes : Research spared the axe, for now... - Ian Lowe reviews the fate of science in the Australian Budget

Forum : Trawling for votes - Elections always spell bad news for fish, says Debora Mackenzie

Review : Shifty lights

Review : Two worlds embrace

Thistle diary : Prolonging life after death - Tam Dalyell comments from Westminster