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14 October 2000

Issue 2260

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The Yellowjack Express

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Are chimps chumps?

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No Mercy

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Space invaders

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DOUBLE OR QUIT

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News

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Wonder drug

ASPIRIN may help prevent miscarriages. Lesley Regan and her colleagues at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London followed the pregnancies of women who had previously had unexplained miscarriages after 13 weeks or more. Of those who took 75 milligrams of aspirin a day, 65 per cent had a successful pregnancy, compared with only …

News

Stuck with it?

News

Cash cow

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Southern exposure

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Rodents protected

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Lowly bugs reach for the skies

News

Home from home

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Losing it

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Dead specialised

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Rattling good drugs

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Lasered lawns

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It's the Sony Webman

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Wandering lonely in a gas cloud

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Batty idea

News

No more nasty niffs

News

Now wash your hands

News

Dress to impress, in any colour you want

News

Humans

Lifeline in peril

News

Humans

Some drinkers have good reason to celebrate

News

Humans

The child within

News

Humans

Fat buster unblocks arteries

News

Humans

Prostate pointer

News

Live now, pay later

News

Technology

Dot.dash

News

Quick thinking

News

Common as muck

News

Games boys play

News

Electric bugs go creepy-crawly

News

Technology

Body network

News

Technology

Warping pens

News

Technology

Healthy glow

News

Tainted wilderness

News

Mobile phone calls linger in the mind

News

Age of iron and ice

News

Master blaster

News

Save our stars

News

Top slot

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Costly closure

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Bold enterprise

News

Challenge to patent fees ends in a vacuum

News

The Prozac generation

News

Raising the dead

News

Zapped from space

News

The heat is on

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

DEATHS in Britain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, have been rising by a third on average each year since 1995. Although the absolute number of cases is low (New Scientist, 12 August, p 19) , it's a worrying trend and by late summer the national press was full …

Opinion

Stars in his eyes

Opinion

Up in smoke

Opinion

Fusion jam tomorrow

Opinion

Still crazy after all these years

Opinion

Features

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The Yellowjack Express

With fifty sharp nails sticking out of its head, the hand-held wooden beater could be mistaken for an instrument of torture. It isn't. Spiked wooden paddles were standard equipment for mail clerks working on the American railways in the late 19th century. They weren't designed to repel would-be train robbers but to stop a worse …

Features

Are chimps chumps?

Features

No Mercy

Features

Space invaders

Features

DOUBLE OR QUIT

Features

More

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Journey to the centre of the Earth

THE core of the Earth is as remote and mysterious as anywhere in the Solar System, with pressures around 300 million times higher than at the surface and temperatures reaching 6000 °C—the same as the surface of the Sun. Although the core is made of a familiar material— iron —under these extraordinary conditions it behaves …

Inside Science

Summer competition winners

Books & Arts

A Tribble's Guide to Space by Alan Tribble

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from OXFORD

Books & Arts

A very, very old planet

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK'S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out at a ceremony at Harvard University's hallowed Sanders Theater last week. Sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research, they honour achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced. Feedback particularly likes them because the achievements they represent tend to be so much easier to understand …

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