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25 March 2000

Issue 2231

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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.

Any old iron . . .

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A life less ordinary

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Hey, big spender

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The hole story

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How to defy death

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.

Birds' teeth

A FLEET, predatory dinosaur that lived in Mongolia 80 million years ago had teeth like those of the first birds, not like other dinosaurs. The 1.5-metre-high Bryonosaurus, a member of a group of large-eyed, large-brained dinosaurs called troodonts, had smooth teeth. They resemble those of Archaeopteryx, the first bird, which lived some 150 million years …

News

Slap me, nurse

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Small beginnings

News

Technology

Cyberchondriacs

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Floating away

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Piecemeal security threatens e-commerce

News

Westerlies give early warning of hurricanes

News

Stressed out

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Revealed in a flash

News

Protein protection

News

Missing lynx

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No time in space

News

The floodgates open

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Put it on a pylon

News

Rival species indulge in sperm warfare

News

On a wing and some air

News

Will GM bugs help livestock pile on the pounds?

News

Small steps for a man

News

Play anywhere

News

Light-fingered

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Death traps

News

Hot snow

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Prehistoric pins

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Taken for a ride

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No, no, this way

News

The ice planet

News

DNA boost for baby

News

Technology

PERV detector

News

Technology

Natural gas stations

News

Technology

Blooming slag heaps

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Out of control

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Cash or burn

News

Audience blows its own trumpet

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Bubble trouble

News

Designer donors

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So far so good

News

Doomsday spring

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Vanishing ozone

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Asthma headache

News

When it rains . . .

News

Bending light over backwards

News

Opinion

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Ian Anderson: The end of an era

THE man who established this column—and much else in science journalism in Australia—is with us no more. Ian Anderson, the first Australasian editor of New Scientist, died earlier this week at the age of 53. He leaves behind family, friends and colleagues, to whom it seems inconceivable that such a doughty character could be overwhelmed …

Opinion

Humans

Washington diary

Opinion

Down with tyranny

Opinion

Heaven's observer

Opinion

Read the runes

Opinion

Mean streets

Opinion

Features

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Any old iron . . .

Today, its blue paint is peeling and the iron is rusting, but sixty years ago it had pride of place in a kitchen somewhere in Queensland. The house was poor, but what its owners lacked in wealth they made up for with ingenuity. Their "bush pantry" could have been mistaken for one of the newfangled …

Features

A life less ordinary

Features

Hey, big spender

Features

The hole story

Features

How to defy death

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.

Book of Bauer

Ferdinand Bauer was the best. His paintbrush captured the first koala, and his platypus was brilliant, even if no one believed it. And his cycad reveals nothing of how sick the artist got from eating its poisonous nuts. In Ferdinand Bauer: The Nature of Discovery, David Mabberley sketches what little is known of the manlabelled …

Books & Arts

Twists in the brain

Books & Arts

Conversations on conversation

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee (2000)

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

STATING the blindingly obvious is a favourite trick of many headline writers, but those who contribute to the Newswise online news agency seem to have honed it to perfection. Here are two examples of the craft from last week's batch of releases: "Anti-depressants may benefit depressed patients" and "Skin care products that can benefit the …

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