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16 March 2002

Issue 2334

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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.

Lifting the curse

Features
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Sacred echoes

Features
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Back to your roots

Features
Cycles of creation

Cycles of creation

Features

Table of contents

News

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Telltale flashes

THE flashing lights on computers, modems, network switches and even keyboards could be broadcasting your personal data around your office or home—or even out of the window. After testing a number of computer systems and pieces of peripheral equipment such as modems for "optical leakage", two American engineers have found that blinking LEDs can flash …

News

The early bird gets the biggest eyes

News

Targeting a killer

News

It's actually beige

News

Headstart for flight

News

Don't drink and run

News

Walking on water

News

Technology

Phone that knows its place

News

Hacking at light speed

News

Shape-shifting brain saver

News

Technology

Intruder alert

News

Technology

Leg preserver

News

A breath of fresh air for newborns

News

Silence of the luvvies

News

Once bitten

News

Come hell or high water

News

Hello, hello…the line's gone dead

News

Use it then lose it

News

New genetic spanner in the works

News

Eat what you're given and no arguments

News

Corporate science v the right to know

News

Test tube trauma

News

Another good reason to fake that suntan

News

Space

The truth about warp drive

News

Danger money

News

Shrinking world

News

Deadly legacy

News

The natural choice

News

Think twice

News

Death by music

News

Under your skin

News

Easy on the alcohol

News

Early learning

News

The race for a cure

News

Opinion

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Westminister diary

IN an attempt to help shape the European Union's review of chemicals policy, a number of influential European environmental and consumer lobby groups drew up a charter in October 2000. Their drive then was to persuade as many other non-governmental organisations as possible to sign what became known as the Copenhagen Charter. Essentially, it calls …

Opinion

Hidden dragon

Opinion

Features

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.

Lifting the curse

IFYOU'RE a woman, here's a tempting offer: stop having your periods now. Renounce the cramps, the bloating, the migraines, the moodiness and discomfort that take over your life once a month. Use your brain for something other that deciding between light and super-absorbent, deodorant or unscented. And best of all, feel good about it, because …

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Sacred echoes

Features

Back to your roots

Features

Cycles of creation

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Lasers are cool, very cool

Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling by François Bardou, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Alain Aspect and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Cambridge University Press, £19.95, ISBN 0521004225 HOW can you cool a cloud of atoms to within a whisper of absolute zero? Blasting it with laser beams would certainly seem an unlikely option, yet this is precisely how physicists have managed …

Books & Arts

Suprapick and mix

Books & Arts

Green grow the texans, oh

Books & Arts

A dream of clean fuel

Books & Arts

Too clever by half

Books & Arts

What's that you said?

Books & Arts

Conscious effort

Books & Arts

Them and us

Books & Arts

What is this thing called science?

Books & Arts

Mathematical Vistas by Peter Hilton, Derek Holton and Jean Pedersen and other books

Books & Arts

One great leap for humankind

Books & Arts

The Birds of Northern Melanesia by Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond (2002)

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FOLLOWING our report on 23 February, many readers have told us of another way to defeat those hated "press 1 for this, press 2 for that" automated switchboards. We're pleased to pass it on. Even if the companies that inflict these systems on us read this column, changing their technology to defeat these tricks will …

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