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11 September 1999

Issue 2203

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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 glass menagerie

Features
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The dope on silicon

Features
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Feeling is believing

Features
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The African queen

Features
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The planet that hums

Features

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.

Technology

Madness on wheels

Car manufacturers are forever introducing snazzy new features, but whoever came up with the idea of Internet access for drivers deserves a lecture on road safety. The offenders are General Motors' Net car ( www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21204.html ) and Vauxhall's Omega V8.com ( www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3896544,00.html ). Both are replete with gadgets such as night vision head-up displays and …

News

Start digging . . .

News

Irresistable impulses

News

Operation Eradicate

News

Bad housekeeping

News

Macho males

News

No pain, big gain

News

A hole is born

News

Putting it about

News

Eyes on the sky

News

Take that, you nasty little parasite

News

Collapsing case

News

No free launches

News

Will wild chimp pee tell all about HIV?

News

Technology

Left standing

News

Technology

Gates shut out

News

Technology

Glimmer of hope for CD unity

News

Hole power

News

Will robots learn to build their own future?

News

Waiting to exhale

News

Health check

News

Sun takes on Microsoft

News

Daily dose

News

Explosive wipes

News

Natural killer

News

Double dawn

News

France's finest rediscover their lowly roots

News

Creative burst

News

Boom and bust

News

Organised killers

News

Technology

Early warning

News

Technology

Come clean

News

Technology

Fat chance

News

The gentle touch

News

Tropical killer flies north

News

How time turns memory from white to black

News

It's a small Web

News

Tiff over GIFs sparks Net uproar

News

Reading genes

News

Busier than ever

News

Charge of the light battery brigade

News

Drug-free hens

News

Polished performance

News

Who owns cloning?

News

Big boned

News

Thin time for pigs

News

Leaky seas

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

FOR years, the chip-making industry has had a clean image. But according to Joseph LaDou of the University of California in San Francisco, workers can suffer from birth defects and cancer (New Scientist, 15 May, p 18) . I find this alarming because the constituency that I represent, West Lothian, and the adjacent one represented …

Opinion

Saving the raw prawn

Opinion

Dead fish in the Danube

Opinion

Low Earth obit

Opinion

Atrocity stories

Opinion

A very unholy war

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.

The glass menagerie

Pale and ghostlike, they float gently inside their womb of shining glass. Each has the snout, feet and prickly coat of a hedgehog, yet none is quite ready for the rough and tumble of woodland life. They are just three of the thousands of embryos collected in the late 19th century by Ambrosius Hubrecht, a …

Features

The dope on silicon

Features

Feeling is believing

Features

The African queen

Features

The planet that hums

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.

Desert tales

Charles Doughty was one of those Victorians fascinated by Arabia to the point of obsession. Written after years of wandering among the Arabs and risking his life by refusing to disguise his Christianity, his book Travels in Arabia Deserta is a classic, mostly forgotten, as he is himself. Self-taught in geology and anthropology, he never …

Books & Arts

Crystal gazer

Books & Arts

Gould's gold

Books & Arts

Different strokes

Books & Arts

from Washington

Books & Arts

Bending gender

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

JAPANESE ELECTRONICS companies are being inundated with complaints from people who say their fax machines are suddenly going into "receive" mode for no apparent reason. Some mysterious force is activating them, but no fax materialises. After an investigation, NEC, Matsushita and other fax makers concluded that noises at exactly the same frequency as a fax …

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Regulars

Letters

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