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29 January 2000

Issue 2223

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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 border of order

Features
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Return to the iron planet

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Storm in a coffee cup

Features
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She's gotta have it

Features

Table of contents

News

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Fuel tests don't dish the dirt

THE aviation fuel contaminant believed to have been responsible for grounding nearly half the light aircraft in Australia (New Scientist, 22 January, p 7) was not detected because standard aviation fuel tests are not sensitive enough, according to an independent expert who has been asked to assess fuel testing procedures. "The international regulations are going …

News

Burning backwards

News

See-through videotapes

News

Chilling out

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Sail-safe constellation

News

Ready or not…

News

Technology

Look to the sky

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Arid lands

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Race against time to save orbiting observatory

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Stub it out

News

Turning the worm

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Off target

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Killers on the farm

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Making a beeline for the best honeycomb

News

Big cats

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Fast tilt

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Not so tough

News

Bird's-eye view

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Blooming marvel

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Quicker, simpler, smarter chips

News

The empire strikes back with an energy saver

News

Every second counts

News

Technology

Fresher fruit

News

Technology

Leaky recycling

News

Technology

Boon for the tuneless

News

Invisible enemies

News

In good taste

News

Sound it out

News

Seeds of change

News

Piltdown bird

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Model workers

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Polar pioneer

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Why build reservoirs when you can use nature's own?

News

Put to the test

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Gene trials halted

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Early learning

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Pale penguin picks up a partner

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Live and let die

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Cloning without embryos

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Kenyan setback

News

Uranium probe

News

Fortean ice

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

THERE'S a time-honoured tradition in Washington that if you want to release unpleasant, unpopular or unflattering news to the press, do it late on a Friday. Federal agencies are quite adept at this trick. It has several advantages. By the time reporters get the news, most of the key sources will have left their offices, …

Opinion

Base instincts

Opinion

Sound idea; Sharp success

Opinion

Don't mention the e-word

Opinion

The ice man

Opinion

The way ahead

Opinion

Features

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The border of order

SWIMMING serenely through the freezing waters of the Antarctic, the winter flounder is unaware of the interest it is provoking among scientists in cosy labs on the other side of the world. It goes quietly about its business in seas that ought to turn the fluid in its blood to ice. Yet the flounder doesn't …

Features

Return to the iron planet

Features

Storm in a coffee cup

Features

She's gotta have it

Features

More

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Amazon adventure

Alfred Russel Wallace, who reached the same conclusion about natural selection as Darwin did and collaborated with him, spent four years in the Amazon making drawings of the flora and fauna there. Disaster hit on his way home in 1852. His ship caught fire, leaving him time only to snatch one box of sketches while …

Books & Arts

Inside art

Books & Arts

Blood and plunder

Books & Arts

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are by Barbara Katz Rothman

Books & Arts

Clean sweep

Books & Arts

Try living there

Books & Arts

Pleasure map

Books & Arts

Douglas felled

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

OVER recent months electronics companies have come up with ideas for wristwatch-sized devices that function variously as a cellphone, pager, voice recorder, radio, TV, camera, GPS satellite navigation system or computer. Consumers get very excited by these promises, because a watch is one of the few things we carry with us at all times. The …

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