Issue 2164 | Magazine cover date: 12 December 1998

12 December 1998

Issue 2164

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Features

Technology in government

News

The hype about herpes

Opinion

A martyr in the making

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Technology in government

Features

Natural born fathers

Features

The wild bunch

Features

Beyond the fringe

Features

Going for a spin

Features

News

The hype about herpes

SEXUALLY transmitted diseases are guaranteed big headlines. Herpes, though it is rarely fatal, is no exception. So when statistics emerged from a meeting in Cannes last year showing that infection with the herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2)—the most common agent for the disease—had risen by a third in the US between the late 1970s …

News

Dodging the detectors

News

Coronary cleanup stops jams downstream

News

Organic ingredient

News

Faster, faster . . .

News

Unwelcome guests

News

Wild water

News

Bolts from the blue

News

Cloning's maverick goes East

News

Consider the lobster

News

For the record

News

If you can't beat them…

News

Safe after all?

News

Failed seeds make perfect baby food

News

Kidney match

News

Technology

Abuse of power

News

A brighter outlook

News

Embryonic space station is born

News

The great divide

News

Why life on Earth leans to the left

News

Curious correlation

News

Transplants go better with the right timing

News

Killing by numbers

News

Voicing your e-mail

News

Sugar dip

News

Body clock

News

Blinded by the light

News

Force for change

News

IVF is a pain in the back

News

Technology

Picture this

News

Technology

Washed up

News

Technology

Grand idea

News

Privacy clash

News

Good migrations

News

Backing for badgers

News

Fighting talk

News

Now dying planes won't lose their data

News

A jab for trees

News

When walls have eyes

News

Innocent eye

News

Yes to cloned tissue

News

Superbug alert

News

Cultured neurons woo Congress

News

Nailing the drug rapists

News

Eat my shorts

News

Opinion

A martyr in the making

IT WILL not come as a surprise to many people that someone who endangers the lives of other people in a campaign of arson can threaten his own. But the prison hunger strike by convicted Animal Liberation Front (ALF) terrorist Barry Horne seems to have caught the British government off balance. As New Scientist went …

Opinion

Spot the difference . . .

Opinion

Features

Technology in government

Despite the hiving off of many research and development organisations such as the National Physical Laboratory and the Road Transport Research Laboratory into the private sector, the Civil Service remains an important employer of scientists and engineers in Britain. The Ministry of Defence alone employs 17 000 scientists and engineers and recruits in two different …

Features

Natural born fathers

Features

The wild bunch

Features

Beyond the fringe

Features

Going for a spin

Features

Lying eyes

Visual Intelligence : How We Create What We See by Donald Hoffman, W. W. Norton, £21, ISBN 0393046699 How do we see a curved solid surface from a few sketchy lines on a page? From ghostly images in the eye, we somehow perceive meaningful solid objects. Try this for yourself. The "subjective" contours of the …

Books & Arts

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Forum

Where the buck stops

Forum

Enchanted forests

Books & Arts

Eating people is fun

Books & Arts

Never again

Forum

Out of the cauldron

Forum

A scientific romance

Books & Arts

Kind of connect

Books & Arts

It's all very simple, really

Books & Arts

From Washington DC

Books & Arts

Mind

Primary colours

Books & Arts

Imprintings

Books & Arts

Shelf filler

Books & Arts

A bedtime story

Forum

Here be clones

Books & Arts

Who needs parents?

Forum

Regulars

Feedback

BRADWELL nuclear power station, on Britain's Essex coast, has been generating electricity since 1962 and is licensed to operate until 2002. The station's operator, the government-owned company Magnox Electric, is hoping for an extension to 2012. Feedback was passing by recently, and dropped in to take a tour. It was impressive. Magnox Electric is most …

Regulars

This week's magazine

12 December 1998

On the cover

Technology in government

Natural born fathers

The wild bunch

Beyond the fringe

Going for a spin

Table of contents

News

The hype about herpes

Dodging the detectors

Coronary cleanup stops jams downstream

Organic ingredient

Faster, faster . . .

Unwelcome guests

Wild water

Bolts from the blue

Cloning's maverick goes East

Consider the lobster

For the record

If you can't beat them…

Safe after all?

Failed seeds make perfect baby food

Kidney match

Technology

Abuse of power

A brighter outlook

Embryonic space station is born

The great divide

Why life on Earth leans to the left

Curious correlation

Transplants go better with the right timing

Killing by numbers

Voicing your e-mail

Sugar dip

Body clock

Blinded by the light

Force for change

IVF is a pain in the back

Technology

Picture this

Technology

Washed up

Technology

Grand idea

Privacy clash

Good migrations

Backing for badgers

Fighting talk

Now dying planes won't lose their data

A jab for trees

When walls have eyes

Innocent eye

Yes to cloned tissue

Superbug alert

Cultured neurons woo Congress

Nailing the drug rapists

Eat my shorts

Opinion

A martyr in the making

Spot the difference . . .

Features

Technology in government

Natural born fathers

The wild bunch

Beyond the fringe

Going for a spin

More

Lying eyes

. . . . .

Where the buck stops

Enchanted forests

Eating people is fun

Never again

Out of the cauldron

A scientific romance

Kind of connect

It's all very simple, really

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