Issue 2313 | Magazine cover date: 20 October 2001

20 October 2001

Issue 2313

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Wings of desire

News

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Opinion

Psycho killer

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Wings of desire

Features

Space Invaders

Features

And then there was one

Features

Sunken cities of the Nile

Features

Point of no return

Features

Forget it

Features

News

Technology

Memory sandwiches

The US Office of Naval Research has been funding studies into molecular memory (WO 01/52266). Previous attempts to do this, which used photochemical dyes to record data, failed because the read/write heads moved too slowly. They were also limited because the memory could only be stored on a flat film. The ONR gets round this …

News

Clever monkey

News

What's hot, flexible and has magnetic appeal?

News

A risk too far

News

Healthy outlook

News

Fatal missile mistake

News

Seahenge saved

News

Academics revolt

News

Canaletto paints a picture of Venice's watery fate

News

Eco-flop

News

Outa my way!

News

Thinking the unthinkable

News

On the rocks

News

Shoot the messenger

News

Holocaust archive

News

Career guidance

News

Ozone unfriendly

News

Forbidden fronds

News

Anatomy of terror

News

Gospel truth?

News

Radio babies

News

Cut it out

News

Storm warning

News

Sex in space

News

Why watch TV when a machine can do it for you?

News

There are more ways than one to get smashed

News

Spray-on strength

News

Go for the glow

News

Bag 'em up

News

Echoes of enigma

News

Castles in the air

News

Scream if you want to scroll faster

News

Look, a matching set

News

It's time for Africa to clean up its petrol

News

BECs win prizes

News

Sultans of spin

News

Dead giveaway

News

Twinkle, twinkle, little phone

News

Hold the front flake

News

Every breath you make

News

Technology

Shattering sparks

News

Technology

Ads are gonna get you

News

Opinion

Psycho killer

WHOEVER has been mailing them must be delighted. For the price of a few stamps and precious little actual anthrax, they have succeeded in spreading panic across the globe and endowing white powders of all kinds with the power to clear buildings and ground planes. Even a Florida postmark can now strike fear. In a …

Opinion

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Big Uncle says chill out. . .

Opinion

Health for who?

Opinion

Features

Wings of desire

Britain's most magnificent butterfly, the swallowtail, was a "must-have" species for every serious Victorian collector. Its rarity made it all the more desirable: Britain's unique subspecies Papilio machaon britannicus lived only in the remote and inhospitable fenlands of East Anglia. The prospect of catching your own carried just a whiff of danger. At the height …

Features

Space Invaders

Features

And then there was one

Features

Sunken cities of the Nile

Features

Point of no return

Features

Forget it

Features

Divided life

A Life of Sir Francis Galton by Nicholas Wright Gillham, Oxford, $35, ISBN 0195143655 POOR Francis Galton. Forever in the shadow of his cousin, Charles Darwin, he was eventually branded the "father of eugenics". But was he a victim of his times, an upstanding Victorian boffin with views now rather out of fashion? Or did …

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Rational Reflections

Books & Arts

Steal this Book

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A Better Baby

Books & Arts

Not much left

Books & Arts

Bestsellers

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

MICHAEL LIPSCHUTZ , who studied the first rocks brought back from the Moon in 1969, tells us he remembers public concern about the possibility that the rocks might harbour pathogens. So NASA spent millions of dollars on quarantine facilities—even after Lipschutz's research director pointed out in a letter to a scientific journal that, with the …

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This week's magazine

20 October 2001

On the cover

Wings of desire

Space Invaders

And then there was one

Sunken cities of the Nile

Point of no return

Forget it

Table of contents

News

Technology

Memory sandwiches

Clever monkey

What's hot, flexible and has magnetic appeal?

A risk too far

Healthy outlook

Fatal missile mistake

Seahenge saved

Academics revolt

Canaletto paints a picture of Venice's watery fate

Eco-flop

Outa my way!

Thinking the unthinkable

On the rocks

Shoot the messenger

Holocaust archive

Career guidance

Ozone unfriendly

Forbidden fronds

Anatomy of terror

Gospel truth?

Radio babies

Cut it out

Storm warning

Sex in space

Why watch TV when a machine can do it for you?

There are more ways than one to get smashed

Spray-on strength

Go for the glow

Bag 'em up

Echoes of enigma

Castles in the air

Scream if you want to scroll faster

Look, a matching set

It's time for Africa to clean up its petrol

BECs win prizes

Sultans of spin

Dead giveaway

Twinkle, twinkle, little phone

Hold the front flake

Every breath you make

Technology

Shattering sparks

Technology

Ads are gonna get you

Opinion

Psycho killer

Westminster Diary

Big Uncle says chill out. . .

Health for who?

Features

Wings of desire

Space Invaders

And then there was one

Sunken cities of the Nile

Point of no return

Forget it

More

Divided life

What Surrounds Us

Rational Reflections

Steal this Book

A Better Baby

Not much left

Bestsellers

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

Letters