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Issue 2293

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Resurrection

News

The home-movie channel

Opinion

There be dragons

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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.

Resurrection

Features

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Life

Critters with attitude

Features

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Simply sensational

Features

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The heavens at war

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.

The home-movie channel

GET your rain checks and excuses ready, the dreaded home movie is back with a vengeance. And this time it won't just be the occasional clip of your neighbour's camping holiday. Thanks to the Internet and satellite broadcasting an endless stream of other people's home movies will be beamed directly into your home. The idea …

News

Playing the power game

News

Herpes hope

News

All fished out

News

Fighting back

News

Age of wonder

News

Forest fallout

News

Personal masseur

News

Balancing act

News

Technology

Remote control

News

Technology

Magnetic munchers

News

Technology

Fair play

News

Plant raider

News

Chickens stand down

News

Testing, testing, tes...

News

Blast that comet

News

Trail of destruction

News

Jurassic pipsqueak

News

Fresh from the peat bog

News

Carry on spinning

News

Flight of the Martian bee

News

Don't sit so close to me

News

Vein, vein go away

News

Current champion

News

Raging bull

News

Sunny with showers

News

Power lunch

News

Everything must go

News

Best thing since…

News

There's many a slip 'twixt egg and clone

News

Eat thy neighbour

News

Life

Deep-sea dynamos

News

Life

Alien footprints

News

Life

The tiny villains lurking in vaccines

News

Too hot to handle

News

Life

Trained assassins

News

Life

Living with the enemy

News

Century for vCJD

News

Heavyweight fits the table

News

No space for junk

News

Your worst fears

News

Opinion

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There be dragons

The Dragon Seekers: How an extraordinary circle of fossilists discovered the dinosaurs and paved the way for Darwin by Christopher McGowan, Perseus, $26, ISBN 0738202827 DOES every science have its heroic age? Geologists certainly think so: theirs spanned the first 50 years of the 19th century, when geology was born as a rigorous and essentially …

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

So you think your vote counts?

Opinion

A fourth way?

Opinion

Not just Star Wars

Opinion

Dangers we don't see, thrills we do

Opinion

Features

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Resurrection

AT FIRST GLANCE, you would probably mistake the place for a vacant lot in the semi-industrial landscape of southern San Francisco Bay. To the west lie giant industrial salt ponds; to the east, a profusion of freeways, power lines and hastily built Internet office parks. Until recently, most conservationists would have dismissed it as not …

Features

Life

Critters with attitude

Features

Simply sensational

Features

The heavens at war

Features

More

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Love that bomb

Britain and the H-bomb by Lorna Arnold, Palgrave, £15.99, ISBN 0333947428 THE British nuclear weapons factory at Aldermaston in Berkshire was not, says Lorna Arnold, "a natural home for chauvinists, warmongers or Dr Strangeloves". Its scientists were "heroes", its chemists and engineers "brilliant"—even their wives were "warm-hearted", says Arnold. Britain and the H-bomb—as you would …

Books & Arts

Oh to be in Ireland

Books & Arts

In two minds

Books & Arts

Doctor, doctor

Books & Arts

Going to the zoo

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HOW WOULD you like to have a spider named after you? According to the The West Australian newspaper, the Western Australian Museum in Perth has launched a fund-raising and awareness programme called "Live Forever". It promises that for just A$5000 (£1800), members of the public can achieve nominal immortality by having a species named after …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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