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15 July 2000

Issue 2247

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Diary of a cloud hunter

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TITAN here we come

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It's flaming freezing!

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Malariasphere

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Table of contents

News

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Clean sweep

A new broom worth £1 billion will soon be sweeping through British university labs. The government is providing £775 million for refurbishments and new equipment between 2002 and 2004, while the Wellcome Trust, Britain's leading life sciences charity, will add £225 million for biomedical research. The lobby group Save British Science welcomed the windfall, but …

News

A steady hand

News

Blinding light

News

What a downer

News

Something else for women to worry about

News

Making a meal of cyanide

News

Get a grip

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Still too hot

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Bone tired

News

Magic sponges

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Super buckyballs

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The bluffer's guide to life

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Thinking big

News

To catch a wave

News

Mobile foam

News

Dead letter

News

The proof's in the pawprints

News

Remember me

News

Surgical cuts

News

Cordless surfing

News

These boots were made for leaping

News

Clever sifting

News

Time machine

News

Seconds out, round one

News

On the pulse

News

Technology

Odour eating for all the family

News

Technology

Heart conditioner

News

Technology

Phone home

News

The coast is clear

News

Back on track

News

Deadly error

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For the chop

News

Money for nothing

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Little gems

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Not the real boost

News

Modified crops could corrupt weedy cousins

News

Fair share

News

AIDS apocalypse

News

Life from the skies

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THE FASTER a car goes, the greater the chance of it being involved in an accident. Cars kill 45 000 people a year in the European Union alone. Is a driver's freedom to put his or her foot down worth such a high price? New Scientist thinks politicians should consider insisting that cars carry devices …

Opinion

Giving soft drink that extra lift

Opinion

Lies I tell myself

Opinion

Paradigm lost

Opinion

Gene warrior

Opinion

The best defence

Opinion

Features

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Diary of a cloud hunter

High noon. 25 February 2000. For the band of researchers that has descended on northern Oklahoma, noon is the crucial time of the day. The plane loaded with instruments is airborne, the antenna on the tarmac tracking its every move. Scientists at computer screens scrutinise the stream of incoming data. Everyone is rushing to get …

Features

TITAN here we come

Features

It's flaming freezing!

Features

Malariasphere

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More

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Border Control

A LIVING CELL is like an ancient walled city buzzing with activity. It has its workshops, storehouses, administrative centre and streets teeming with traffic, but most importantly of all it is surrounded by a wall that encloses and defines it. This wall—the plasma membrane —is responsible for protecting the cell from its hazardous surroundings. Whereas …

Inside Science

Think like me

Books & Arts

Life at the Extremes by Frances Ashcroft

Books & Arts

Mostly gone

Books & Arts

Salt, bitter and good

Books & Arts

Wordsmiths

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Playing cricket Question : A friend of mine assures me you can tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of crickets. Is this true and, if so, how? Answer : There is an old rule that the ambient temperature in degrees Fahrenheit is equal to the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds plus …

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