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13 December 1997

Issue 2112

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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.

The light at the bottom of the sea

Features
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Body works

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Neutrons for sale

Features
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Wild Minds

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Table of contents

News

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Deadly start

LEUKAEMIA can start in the womb, say researchers in London. A pregnant woman's exposure to chemicals, possibly including alcohol, is the most likely cause, the scientists believe. Doctors routinely take blood samples from newborn babies by a prick to the heel to test for various abnormalities. Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research's Chester …

News

They ain't heavy . . .

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Chimps in limbo

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Once bitten

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Out of orbit

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Cure or kill

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Plastic toy ban

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Stomping ground

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Beam me up

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Bad taste

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Tricksy TB gene

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Early warning system

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Cosmic glitter

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Deadly dinner

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Tipping the scales of justice

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Per ardua ad astra

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News

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Gutsy ancestors

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Light-hearted planet

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TVs that listen

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Once bitten

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Squeeze 'n' twist

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Sky high

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Blue light for safety

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The big picture

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Fake fat leak fuels funding fury

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Noise power

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Good news for extraterrestrials

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Space phone

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Tiny T-junctions

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Neutrons tame tumours

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Hop, skip and jump

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Eels take pollution to heart

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Beating the deadline

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Prion detectives close in on their suspect

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Wise mothers fake it

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The final cut

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In the bag

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Trading places

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It's a deal, but can it work?

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A rotten prospect for the tropics

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In fear of flu

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Over and out

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Halcion probe

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Breast before bottle

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The right chemistry

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Opinion

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Editorial : Out in the open - Deadly waste lurking on a cliff top will be the first nuclear test for Tony Blair

A SHAFT full of radioactive debris at the Dounreay nuclear plant on the north coast of Scotland is probably one of the worst mistakes the British nuclear industry has ever made. For 18 years after 1959, a simple hole dug some 65 metres in the cliff was used to dump more than 1000 tonnes of …

Opinion

Editorial : Psst, wanna do a deal? - "FROM now on the political science takes over from the natural science." Or so John Prescott, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, announced on his arrival in Kyoto as a key broker in the endgame of the climate negotiation

Opinion

Features

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The light at the bottom of the sea

THE bottom of the ocean is a world of unending night-or so it had always seemed. But an eerie light has now been seen emanating from the abyss. There is even speculation that 3.8 billion years ago this feeble glow may have powered the first glimmerings of photosynthesis on the young Earth. The light flickers …

Features

Body works

Features

Neutrons for sale

Features

Wild Minds

Features

More

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Thistle diary :

PROBLEMS caused by the Internet escalate daily. In the light of representations made to me by anxious parents at my constituency surgery, I read David Brake's article "Roam alone" with growing alarm (This Week, 20 September, p 20) . Can children browse the Internet without being exposed to pornography, bad language or some other unsuitable …

Forum

Review : Earth mover

Books & Arts

Review : Angry years

Books & Arts

Review : Count on it

Books & Arts

Review : Fancy that

Books & Arts

Review : Bell's calling

Books & Arts

Review : Fat cats' dirty tricks

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Washington

Books & Arts

All roads lead to ruin

Forum

The real green revolution

Forum

Mission Earth

Inside Science

Review : Ibid speaks out

Books & Arts

Restoring Museum Aircraft by Robert Mikesh

Books & Arts

Review : Collective net

Books & Arts

Review : Clovis's last stand

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

YES, YES, we did say that enough was enough, and the last time we were tempted back to the topic at least one reader wrote in to protest. But many others continue to be fascinated by nominative determinism, the tendency of people to gravitate towards works that fit their surname. Even as august a publication …

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