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2 August 1997

Issue 2093

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Life

Small fry go big time

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Take it to the limit . . . - The superwhizzy computers of the future will only be born if we can make a whole transistor out of a molecule. But right now we're struggling to make just one wire, says Philip Ball

Features
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Over and over and over...

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Restless in Seattle

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Table of contents

News

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Time of their life

WOMEN who drink alcohol could be delaying their menopause, says a report in the British Medical Journal (vol 315, p 188). David Torgerson of the University of York led a two-year study of more than a thousand women aged between 45 and 49. Of the teetotallers, 25 per cent had reached the menopause, but only …

News

Mini moon

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Womb for improvement

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Wandering stars

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While my nanoguitar gently weeps

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A smoking gun

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The hottest rock in the world

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It takes two

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Falling out

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Cyberphones

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Rain check

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Big cat joins the land of the free

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Every move you make . . .

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Teeth fallout

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Tubby tubers

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Power cut

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Sex on the radio

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Asthma detector

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Drop the hot story

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Mapping Pluto's kingdom

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News

Gene rescue

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News

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Only connect

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Twist of fate

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A steady heart

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Waterworld

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Heat and destroy

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Lucky find

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University challenge

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Have cancer cops missed the real culprits?

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Birds, bees . . . and yeast

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Hand in glove

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Hot shots

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Park and ride

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In the blood

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All systems go

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The making of a moon

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Quantum whistle-blower comes out of the cold

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Is your brain ailing or just ageing?

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Kayak on the loose

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Eating for two

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Growing up too soon

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Slick busters

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Hello, Polly

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Superbugs

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All quiet on the drilling front

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Opinion

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Editorial : Only the British . . .

AS the worst floods for decades hit Poland and Germany last week, Britain remained in the grip of a story more terrifying by far—students at the nation's colleges and universities were told in the clearest possible terms that there was to be no more freeloading. In future, they would have to pay for their tuition. …

Opinion

Editorial : Womb at the top - Even intelligence can be dramatically affected by the first nine months

Opinion

Features

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Life

Small fry go big time

LITTLE freshwater fishes would not perhaps seem likely candidates for evolutionary greatness. But cichlids are profoundly fascinating for biologists-they have achieved the most rapid and extensive diversity known to science. Over a remarkably short period, cichlids in the African great lakes have spawned hundreds of new species, with an enormous range of characteristics. There are …

Features

Take it to the limit . . . - The superwhizzy computers of the future will only be born if we can make a whole transistor out of a molecule. But right now we're struggling to make just one wire, says Philip Ball

Features

Over and over and over...

Features

Restless in Seattle

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 : Chinook challenge

Jonathan Schaeffer's One Jump Ahead is 496 pages long. It tells how he developed the computer program Chinook—"challenging human supremacy in checkers" (draughts to some of us). Whether the challenge was successful or not is the cliffhanging part of the tale. He remarks that he had to force himself to start the book. "Once I …

Books & Arts

Review : Observatory chic

Books & Arts

Review : Sunshine is free

Books & Arts

Review : Flattering to success

Books & Arts

Review : Get A-life

Books & Arts

Review : Knowledge of bodies

Books & Arts

Review : Bill's back room

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from London

Books & Arts

Forum : In search of satisfaction

Forum

Forum : Think before you squawk

Forum

Antipodes : TNT head puts a bomb under the government - Ian Lowe scrutinises the latest report on industry policy

Forum

Thistle diary : - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Sexual Ecology by Gabriel Rotello

Books & Arts

Review : Forteyan times

Books & Arts

Review : Vinous science

Books & Arts

Review : Face lifts

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HOW SPLENDID of NASA to put out stereoscopic pictures of Pathfinder's Martian landing site on the Internet. But how many people happen to have a pair of 3D viewing glasses lying around to look at the pictures with? Martin Harvey thought he had a simple answer: buy a box of Quality Street chocolates, and place …

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