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3 November 2001

Issue 2315

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Out of control

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Bedazzled

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Liquid space

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News

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Milky bar

Astronomers have known for several years that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with a bar-like band of stars in the centre of its whirlpool. Now a researcher in France has found a second, smaller bar, in a different orientation. Christophe Alard of the Paris Institute of Astrophysics made his discovery while studying …

News

Silence of the deep

News

Clap traps love bugs

News

Fat cats earn less

News

CJD forecast improves

News

I know what you did…

News

Turning small balls into big bucks

News

Gambling on thin ice

News

Technology

BBC goes DDD

News

Technology

Flick of the wrist

News

Technology

Cool interruption

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Skyscraper rescue platform achieves lift-off

News

Baby days

News

Glow as you go

News

Smart parking

News

Lost in space

News

Tree hugs from bugs

News

Mars rovers may hop till they drop

News

When things get rough, reach for the nanosandpaper

News

Some like it hot

News

More than skin deep

News

Leading lights

News

Trial by numbers

News

Lighthouses that never dim

News

A whiff of untruth

News

Just kick it

News

Fingers and thumbs

News

Speed-freak mouse ravers squeak their last

News

Catching the solar wave

News

Humans

Going to pot?

News

The more the merrier

News

Lions in peril

News

Soggy season

News

Animal splits

News

Too much of a good thing

News

So stealthy it ain't there

News

Hot on the scent

News

Health

The secret is out

News

Health

Ready or not

News

Health

Hoaxers spread panic across the globe

News

Health

A shot in the dark

News

Opinion

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Westminster Diary

I LED an all-party delegation of MPs to Bolivia last year and one thing we learned there was how devastating banana disease can be for that country's economy—it's one of the poorest in Latin America. So I had no doubts that New Scientist was fully justified in running its recent editorial, "Banana drama" (21 July, …

Opinion

Secrets, Secrets, Secrets

Opinion

That's entertainment

Opinion

At last, it all adds up!

Opinion

Mary, Mary quite contrary

Opinion

Sanity at last

Opinion

Inspect and survive

Opinion

Features

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Out of control

IN OCTOBER 1999, a local passenger train passed through a red light at Ladbroke Grove junction and hit a packed express heading into London's busy Paddington station. Thirty-one people lost their lives. In the aftermath of the crash, people were shocked to learn that British train drivers passed through red lights on no fewer than …

Features

Ask the experts

Features

Bedazzled

Features

Liquid space

Features

More

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Up up and away

Sputnik: The shock of the century by Paul Dickson, Walker, $28, ISBN 0802713653 AFTER that day nothing can be the same again. With the US's self-confidence shaken after years of prosperity, and the President under fire for initial inactivity, it feels like a new Pearl Harbor. The dormant special relationship between the US and Britain …

Books & Arts

Fatal Attraction

Books & Arts

Peruvian odyssey

Books & Arts

Out in paperback

Books & Arts

Plenty of life in the forest

Books & Arts

It's cold out there

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HERE'S A story of the times. A former colleague has a friend whose brother lives in Liverpool, whom we will not name to save his blushes. The brother is in a band and last week he and his fellow musicians were trying to drive to London to do some recording. They got stuck in traffic …

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