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11 November 2000

Issue 2264

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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.

Death foretold

Features
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Tails of woe

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Art of glass

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Physics

Prime time: Will we ever solve the Riemann hypothesis?

Features
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Surf like a Bushman

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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.

Tails of doom

BIOLOGISTS have discovered the "gates of hell" through which proteins consigned to oblivion must pass. Excess or damaged proteins in cells are destroyed inside structures called proteasomes, which consist of four molecular rings stacked on top of each other to form a "chamber of doom". Now researchers have found that the gateway to this chamber …

News

Choc shock

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Parched planet

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Don't sweat

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Just can't get enough

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A kinder cure

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Croupiers on call

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Just say no

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Hack attack

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See-thru suns

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Green lungs feel the heat

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A passage to India

News

When two tribes go to war

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Certain death

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Livelier balls are flying further

News

A flower rooted in the past

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Tired out

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Technology

Greenhouse madhouse

News

Eking out your eggs

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That's groovy

News

Technology

Headstart for odd ears

News

Technology

Doughnut-shaped reality

News

Technology

Nerve-gas alert

News

Exposed

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Your country needs you

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Hunter killers

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Pump up the volume

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Homing in on a voice in the crowd

News

Slow poisons

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Damned spot

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Light stitch

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Bikers licked

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Furrowed fields fend off floods

News

CJD alert in France

News

What's in a planet?

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Dead cert

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Short cut

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Experts warn on hype over cancer blood test

News

Give us a ring

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A searing future

News

Stash or burn

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

I WAS horrified to read that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are causing female polar bears to change sex (New Scientist, 9 September, p 5) . It stirred me to ask Chris Mullin, a junior minister in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if Britain was joining in the international effort to stop these …

Opinion

Return to Avalon

Opinion

Wild about fire

Opinion

Brute force and sandbags

Opinion

It goes to your head

Opinion

Features

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Death foretold

Infamous as harbingers of death and disaster, two death's-head hawkmoths turned up in King George Ill's bedroom during his second bout of "madness" in 1801. His physician, Robert Willis, kept them. Pinned while still fresh, the specimens became a family heirloom. They are on display at the Museum of Zoology at the University of Cambridge …

Features

Tails of woe

Features

Art of glass

Features

Physics

Prime time: Will we ever solve the Riemann hypothesis?

Features

Surf like a Bushman

Features

More

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Health

Forces of Habit by David Courtwright

Forces of Habit by David Courtwright, Harvard University Press, $24.95/£16.95, ISBN 0674004582 STANDING in an airport duty-free shop, David Courtwright realised he was surrounded by attractively packed psychoactive drugs. It was this revelation that drove him to write his remarkable Forces of Habit. Considering skirmishes in the perennial warfare over cannabis, it could hardly be …

Inside Science

When dinosaurs walked Australia

Books & Arts

Star traveller

Books & Arts

Storms ahead

Books & Arts

There's still hope

Books & Arts

Anecdotal evidence

Books & Arts

The end of history

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

CYNICAL observers may feel there is a certain irony in the fact that Greenpeace has been importing potentially dangerous toxic spores into Britain. Back in May, Feedback received, unsolicited, a natty Greenpeace mouse mat made of Amazon-rainforest rubber and carrying a picture of a parrot in flight. Naturally, the rubber was sustainably harvested from the …

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