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14 June 1997

Issue 2086

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Simple art of survival

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Crystal powers

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Feeling a little strange?

Features
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Art for the masses

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Mutant mice hunt human diseases

AN ARMY of 10 000 mice has been conscripted into the fight against human illness. The mice are being bred at the Institute of Mammalian Genetics in Munich with DNA mutations similar to those found in people with common diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and some forms of cancer. By studying the interaction between …

News

Technology

Backup tapes are good news for video pirates

News

Red asteroids may carry stuff of life

News

Alaska's ancient links to Urals

News

Did extra planet vanish into outer space?

News

Green sky at night is chemists' delight

News

Maths shakes up quake forecasts

News

Technology

Key flaw revealed in US code plan

News

Technology

Pump up the bass and let others sleep

News

Technology

The chopper that thinks it's a plane

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Technology

Germany greens its postal vans

News

Twins spring gene shocker

News

Breaking the iron gate that defends malaria

News

Moon cuts no ice

News

Two tongues

News

Scrapie offensive

News

Big is beautiful

News

Earth's little sister

News

Online libel

News

Hanging on for the phone

News

Rampant urban pollution blights Asia's crops

News

Earthlings wrangle over search for Martians

News

Killer food bug reveals talent for survival

News

Its bacteria are worse than its bite

News

Nuclear firms want special treatment

News

Cloning report leaves loophole

News

Alarm sounds over toxic teething rings

News

Giant French laser sparks weapons protest

News

Hubble's humble friend seeks a ride into orbit

News

Norway's tundra is trampled under foot

News

Destruction follows in trawlers' wake

News

Are you really safe in their hands?

News

Opinion

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Return of the Cold War?

WESTERN scientists last week joined forces with a hundred or so of their Russian counterparts in Tromsø, Norway's northern capital, to discuss the final report of a study on the Arctic environment. Six years of work had produced a mass of new data and analysis of everything from how polar bears get sick in Svalbard …

Opinion

Death on the ocean floor

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.

Simple art of survival

JAMES BRADY reckoned the trek through hilly country and heavy jungle along the Talgua River in north-central Honduras would be worth the effort. Scientists at the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History had tipped him off about a cavern, near the town of Catacamas, containing undisturbed marble bowls—rare treasures that are normally seen only in …

Features

Crystal powers

Features

Feeling a little strange?

Features

Art for the masses

Features

More

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Thistle diary : Crazy corn and mining madness

GENES are no respecters of borders. So when the European Union decided earlier this year to admit imports of American maize that had been genetically engineered for resistance to insects, the European Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Emma Bonino, admitted concern that the decision had been taken "under economic pressure" (Forum, 1 March, p 50) . The …

Forum

Antipodes

Forum

Deregulate and be damned

Forum

Culture shock in the car park

Forum

Clarke's choice

Books & Arts

Bang, bang

Books & Arts

Fried dinos

Books & Arts

All brains

Books & Arts

Context is all

Books & Arts

Albert and God

Books & Arts

Hero medics

Books & Arts

Superpowerful computing

Books & Arts

Those were the days

Books & Arts

Turning Japanese

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from London

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Gullibility is catching

Books & Arts

Spiderman up the Amazon

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

MANY OF the national laboratories in the US were created to engage in top-secret work on nuclear weapons. Since the recent downturn in that business, they are all scrambling to find ways of turning laser physicists into ploughshare specialists. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is proud of how it has put its security …

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Regulars

Letters

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