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20 September 1997

Issue 2100

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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.

Beirut's big gamble

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Postcards from another planet – For the price of a Hollywood movie, Pathfinder has given us stunningpictures of an alien world

Features
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Coral in deep water

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Next stop Mars

Features
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2011 A Mars odyssey

Features
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Death of a watery world

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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.

Mouse jitters

A SINGLE deleted gene can produce behavioural changes in mice that resemble those caused by psychiatric disorders, scientists say in Cell (vol 90, p 895). Anthony Wynshaw-Boris of the National Institutes of Health near Washington DC and his team found that mice lacking a gene called disheveled-1 are withdrawn and have problems interpreting sensory stimuli. …

News

Parched Papua prays for rain

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Private enterprise boldly goes

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Roam alone

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Heavens above

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News

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A heart for heights

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Fat chance of telling when you're full

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Born-again mammoths

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Any old oil

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Ganymede calling Earth, come in please

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Turn left

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High anxiety

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Good eggs

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No shame

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Germ warfare

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All together now

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Best of both worlds

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Outwitting a deadly duo

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Switch it off

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Warning shot

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Nuclear spill

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Slim hopes dashed

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Painless insulin

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Too hot to handle

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Every move you make

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Scum succumbs to fatal attraction

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A very bad atmosphere

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Maize ban faces legal showdown

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Life in the underworld

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Set a virus to catch a virus

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Nose for food

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Keystroke

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Clean meat

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Building on trash

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Eye-opener

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Off to a dirty start

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Second-hand carcinogen

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Colourfast

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Freeze your bridges

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Waving fingers

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In the mind's eye

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Back to the big bang

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Red Planet rendezvous

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Fingers kept crossed at mission control

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Eagles, not trees

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Opinion

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Editorial : A giant leap for lawyers – The race is on to grab a piece of celestial real estate

IN California, a car salesman who thinks he owns the Moon and Mars has been doing a brisk trade over the Internet, selling off Manhattan-sized chunks of lunar and Martian real estate. In July came the unlikely news that three men from Yemen, convinced they were the true owners of Mars, were suing NASA for …

Opinion

Editorial : It's the environment, stupid

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.

Beirut's big gamble

Leeds AS THE weary inhabitants of Beirut struggle to rebuild their war-ravaged city, evidence is emerging that it faces another threat. In AD 551 ancient Beirut was levelled, not by civil war but by a natural disaster. Some historians think the devastation was wrought by tsunamis triggered by earthquakes elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. But …

Features

Postcards from another planet – For the price of a Hollywood movie, Pathfinder has given us stunningpictures of an alien world

Features

Coral in deep water

Features

Next stop Mars

Features

2011 A Mars odyssey

Features

Death of a watery world

Features

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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.

Thistle diary :

Westminster IS the university funding system in Britain "creaking dangerously", as Alison Motluk reports leading educationalists as saying ( This Week, 2 August, p 11 )? The hardest-hitting section of Ron Dearing's long-awaited review of higher education called for an independent body of academics and industrialists to be set up "as soon as possible" to …

Forum

Forum : Dishing the dirt on pollution

Forum

ANTIPODES : All at sea with ballast water

Forum

Review : Rumpy pumpy

Books & Arts

Forum : Going nuts in cyberspace

Forum

Review : Greening the offices

Books & Arts

Review : It's a scoop

Books & Arts

Review : Future works

Books & Arts

Review : On and on and on and on . . .

Books & Arts

Review : The nutty professor

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from London

Books & Arts

Review : Snake man

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Tech rage

Books & Arts

Review : To the Sun and back

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

LAST WEEK we published the first of the winning entries to the Feedback Summer Competition, in which readers were invited to suggest how an unlimited power to genetically engineer people, animals and plants might be used. Here are the remaining winning ideas. A womb with a zip, for simplified and pain-free childbirth. A St Bernard …

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