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7 July 2001

Issue 2298

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Turn on, tune in, stand back

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Stench warfare

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The living dead

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Flapping ornithopter takes to the skies

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Coming home

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Feather power

Rolls-Royce reckons the aerospace industry has so far overlooked a simple and cheap way to boost the power of jet engines (GB 2355288). The ideal turbine blade is shaped like an aerofoil, with a rounded leading edge and a very thin trailing edge. In practice, to stop the heat of the engine eroding the steel …

News

Technology

Vibrating implants

News

Technology

Peephole walls

News

Hormone helps to stop men running out of puff

News

Longer bonding

News

Pee more easily

News

Snakes against cancer

News

Blade ruiner

News

Heartichokes

News

No more laundry

News

Balancing act

News

Keep breathing

News

Sticky reminders

News

A real page-turner

News

Clean machines

News

No 2MORO for text messaging lingo

News

The rats have gone bats down by the canal

News

Chill out

News

Save the turtle

News

Mighty mite

News

Follow that cow

News

Put a sock in it

News

Alien invasion

News

Dying gasp

News

Rejecting cancer

News

Earth

Reinventing the table

News

Modified moggies

News

Earth

All shook up

News

Liquid genius

News

Home kit sets your sperm racing

News

Unleash the aliens

News

Lives before profit

News

Artificial brain struggles with adolescence

News

Utterly repulsive

News

A family affair

News

Motion-sick probe

News

Jailhouse powerhouse

News

Earth

Blasts from the past

News

Birth of a miracle

News

Fission impossible

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

REMEMBER the panic caused by the Hong Kong flu epidemic, which killed six people in Hong Kong in 1997? It was caused by a new avian virus. To contain it, the Hong Kong authorities slaughtered a million chickens. Avian viruses caused widespread flu epidemics in 1957 and 1968, and most experts believe there is a …

Opinion

Too darn hot

Opinion

Earth

Calling the tune

Opinion

The drugs don't work

Opinion

Who's your father?

Opinion

Features

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Turn on, tune in, stand back

It's the 1930s. You're chairman of one of Britain's gas companies. A fair slice of your domestic sales is to customers who still use your product for lighting their homes. Gas lamps may be noisy, smelly and dirty-but installing mains electricity costs money, so your shareholders can be confident that gas sales will remain buoyant …

Features

Stench warfare

Features

The living dead

Features

Flapping ornithopter takes to the skies

Features

Coming home

Features

More

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Out in paperback

"It's been a while since I read a book with so much good sense, put over in so amicable a style," said biologist Lawrence Hurst in his review of William Schopf's Cradle of Life (Princeton University Press). It's an account of how Schopf, a palaeobiologist, plugged a gap of several billion years in the Earth's …

Books & Arts

Put the whole universe in your hands

Books & Arts

Bucket chemistry

Books & Arts

Every drop counts

Books & Arts

But he fancies Mr Spock

Books & Arts

Progress report

Books & Arts

You are here

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

WE REPORTED a few weeks ago on injuries suffered by people in encounters with inanimate objects like tea cosies, vegetables and armchairs (Feedback, 9 June) . But what about injuries inflicted by people on inanimate objects? It seems to be computers that suffer the most. In Britain, computer supplier Novatech has published the results of …

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Letters

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