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7 November 1998

Issue 2159

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Smoke gets in your ice

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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.

Smoke gets in your ice

VOLCANOES triggered the deep freeze that has covered polar regions with ice for millions of years, geologists say. For years, researchers have debated the causes of the latest series of ice ages, which began roughly 2.6 million years ago. Among the suspects were periodic changes in the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis and its …

News

Here's health to designer poultry

News

Methuselah flies

News

Just rub it on …

News

Brain repair

News

Light work

News

Pearls to order

News

Vikings were surprisingly well focused

News

Out of my way

News

Money-go-round

News

Lateral gazing

News

Giant boulders swept far inland by prehistoric tsunami

News

Own goal

News

Think you're clever?

News

Strange journeys through the centre of the Earth

News

Find yourself

News

Patently prepared

News

Vital signs in three dimensions

News

HIV locked out

News

Salt shortage

News

Risky business

News

Health

Now you see it

News

Record firms can't stop the music

News

Technology

Worldwide winds

News

A plague on you

News

Green light for breast cancer drug

News

Bright hope

News

Remote care

News

Copy cats

News

Rumble in the jungle

News

Acid test explores that ripe moment

News

Freedom on trial

News

Smog casts a pall over sex life of birds

News

Save our sharks

News

Earth

The fog descends

News

Technology

Online inventions

News

Enter a new dimension…

News

Messy answer

News

Technology

A quicker thaw

News

Technology

Fire down below

News

Putting life on hold

News

Upwardly mobile

News

Men find their roots in the X files

News

Sun struck

News

Dutch challenge

News

Fertile victory

News

DNA express

News

Yes, Mr Vice-President

News

Flirting with disaster

News

Opinion

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.

How to win friends

IT'S just "awesomely cool". That was how White House press secretary Mike McCurry described the Triana satellite, planned for launch next year. Once the satellite is in place between the Sun and the Earth, it will transmit continuously updated high-resolution images of the whole Earth and make them available over the Internet. Anyone connected to …

Opinion

The global view

Opinion

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.

Holes in the net

AFTER years of development, telephone companies are poised to offer a major new service. Digital subscriber line (DSL) promises high-speed Internet access over the same copper wires that now carry voice signals. Yet an air of anxiety permeated an industry conference in Boston when I stopped by last month. Although the hardware works well in …

Forum

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Forum

Where there's muck ...

Forum

Roar of the mild

Books & Arts

History lesson

Books & Arts

Life at the edge

Books & Arts

Pacific heights

Books & Arts

Amelia's daughters

Books & Arts

The aliens have landed

Books & Arts

from London

Books & Arts

The cosmic connection

Forum

The way it really is

Books & Arts

Future connected

Books & Arts

Technology

The silicon tribe

Uncategorized

Technology

Crashing the barriers

Uncategorized

Technology

The future starts here

Uncategorized

Technology

The ideas machine

Uncategorized

Technology

That something special

Uncategorized

Technology

Hear me see me, touch me

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Regulars

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Feedback

NEXT time you're feeling under the weather, don't just curse those nasty microbes. Feedback is alarmed to hear of two further threats to our wellbeing. According to a promotional leaflet received by Patricia Ging: "The air we breathe today has 50 per cent less oxygen than the air breathed by our grandparents." The leaflet goes …

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