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21 June 1997

Issue 2087

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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.

Who killed the Minoans?

Features
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Wacky water

Features
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The plight of the bumblebee

Features
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Chemical warfare at work

Features

Table of contents

News

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bytes : Japanese on disc

High school students in New Zealand will soon be using a multimedia CD-ROM produced at the University of New South Wales to learn Japanese. The NZ Ministry of Education has purchased 500 copies of the CD-ROM, Japan Album, for distribution to schools. The CD-ROM was developed by the university's Unisearch Multimedia in conjunction with the …

News

bytes : When the land gives way

News

Write of reply : Line item

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write of reply : How scandalous

News

Science : Paul Davies...downloaded

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Scan : Coming clean

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Scan : Jubilee on ice

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Scan : Mission bay

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Changing places :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Be kind to a virus and help save lives

News

Technology

Technology : Telephone tokens that keep a secret

News

Technology

Technology : One-chip surfing hits the Net

News

Technology

Technology : Spacecraft get a lift from the Sun

News

Technology

Technology : How sewage sludge could help feed a hungry world

News

Science : Do our bodies tell how smart we are?

News

Science : Mercurial storms rage in the Arctic

News

Science : Rain of rock left meteors mixed up

News

Science : The inner eye has sharper vision

News

Science : How much is that wolf in the window?

News

Technology

Technology : Loud ads could be out on their ear

News

Technology

Technology : Fish dinners help bacteria clean up oily beaches

News

Technology

Technology : Animals teach robots how to see

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Coral survey

News

Listening to ET

News

What price free trade?

News

Science : Dinosaur bones yield blood protein

News

Science : Middle-aged bees dabble in death

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Plane soars to new heights on sunbeams

News

Dangerous dip

News

Shared kidneys

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Nuclear U-turn

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Laptops grounded

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End of the line

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Rhinos could roam the outback

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Bomb tests leave legacy of radioactive food

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The dabs that won't wipe clean

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America argues over its missing millions

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Deadly diseases defeat German `efficiency'

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Can anyone slow the ascent of spam?

News

Live AIDS vaccine makes comeback

News

North wants curb on toxic chemicals

News

Natural disaster pushes rare seals to the brink

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Conservationists call truce with Asian medicine

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Europe's rubbish regulations aim at wrong target

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Plutonium plan is `terrorist charter'

News

After the rave, the Ecstasy hangover

News

Opinion

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Editorial : Who wants to be perfect anyway?

BRAINS and beauty are like water and oil: this view has become so entrenched that exceptions to the rule—such as Linda Lampenius, the Finnish virtuoso violinist with Baywatch looks—are almost regarded as freaks of nature. But is the belief founded on empirical evidence or the prejudices of the unprepossessing? The answer isn't obvious but the …

Opinion

Editorial : Chill out, man

Opinion

Features

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Who killed the Minoans?

Melbourne SOME 3500 years ago, a cataclysmic event wiped out the flourishing Bronze Age civilisation on Crete in the Aegean Sea. The obvious culprit is a volcano on the island of Santorini, which is known to have erupted at about that time. But just how a volcano on an island 120 kilometres away could have …

Features

Wacky water

Features

The plight of the bumblebee

Features

Chemical warfare at work

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.

Antipodes : Editors ignore the public's wishes

WHEN reading the results this week of a survey on public attitudes towards coverage of topics in the media I was reminded of that old adage: the more things change the more they stay the same. A survey of 1060 Australians by pollster AGB McNair has shown that Australians are much more interested in hearing …

Forum

Thistle diary : Something nasty in the waters

Forum

Forum : Whose booty is it anyway?

Forum

Forum : Let's not spoil the big party

Forum

Review : For softies

Books & Arts

Review : Who am I?

Books & Arts

Review : Greedy guts

Books & Arts

Review : Paradises lost

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from London

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Mercury's ghostly companion

Books & Arts

Review : Of mice and men

Books & Arts

Review : Thoroughly modern Willy

Books & Arts

Review : Amazing drapes

Books & Arts

Review : Watery cradle

Books & Arts

Review : From our correspondent

Books & Arts

Review : Lively biology

Books & Arts

Review : Fun in the field

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IT HAS been a record year for Britain's water industry. The newly privatised water companies are expected to disclose a record £2 billion in profits this year. At the same time, a record 4 billion litres a day of drinking water leaks away through the companies' poorly maintained pipes. Nearly 40 per cent of the …

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