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25 May 2002

Issue 2344

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Dirty bomb

Features
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Move over darling

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A fine mess

Features
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X-rated brains

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

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Companies continue to take advantage of changes in the law which let them patent business techniques rather than physical inventions. Chip maker Intel is claiming two new ways to make money from Internet radio (WO 0209088) by tailoring the adverts to match the listener. Before you can listen to the free music, you have to …

News

Technology

Strong fan of detection

News

Technology

Small antennas are cooler

News

Baying for the Moon

News

All together now

News

Dolphin friendly

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Head banger

News

The new PCBs

News

Caught red-handed

News

Power dressing

News

Quantum foot in the door

News

The daddy effect

News

In the line of fire

News

Microwaving cancer

News

Invaders seek out the enemy within

News

Sweet smell of success

News

Net worth

News

Thick-skinned moon

News

They paved paradise

News

Driven by terror

News

How to decontaminate, Buffy style

News

A pill for Parkinson's?

News

Jurassic spark

News

Short-changed

News

Year of the tree

News

Fourth BSE case in Japan

News

Cryobaby record

News

Rising damp

News

Light headed

News

Irrigation on the hoof

News

DIY check-ups on the cards

News

Their secret's safe

News

Bluster over blubber

News

Call to outlaw DNA theft

News

Death of author and thinker

News

Bush and Putin agree to stay MAD

News

Market maker

News

How to beat superbugs that defy all antibiotics

News

Baby milk blues

News

Taming the mosquito

News

Free for all

News

Diamond wars

News

Opinion

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Washington diary

JANUS, you'll remember, was the god with two faces, one looking forwards and the other looking back. And he seems to have had a bad influence on scientists, scientific societies and federal science agencies, when it comes to promoting participation among women and minorities in science. The forward-looking face has led to the creation of …

Opinion

Every step you take

Opinion

The good without the bad

Opinion

A bloody trade

Opinion

Keep your hands off other people's DNA

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.

Dirty bomb

THE MOST notorious places are often the most dismal. Aldermaston, the secretive citadel that gave Britain its nuclear weapons, is not a sight to lift the heart. As far as the eye can see there are drab buildings and bunkers, set in a sea of mud and grass. A huge, ancient heating pipe snakes around …

Features

Move over darling

Features

A fine mess

Features

X-rated brains

Features

More

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.

Evolution of the human condition

Sense and Nonsense by Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown, Oxford University Press, £16.95, ISBN 0198508840 IN 1975 a book changed the landscape of the social and biological sciences. Edward O. Wilson's mammoth 697-page Sociobiology: A new synthesis lumbered off the press at Harvard University and caused a sensation. Wilson's audacious final chapter proposed that natural …

Books & Arts

Maggie gee

Books & Arts

Tim smit

Books & Arts

The right to choose?

Books & Arts

Reality bypass

Books & Arts

Lie detector

Books & Arts

Solid stuff

Books & Arts

Start of a chain reaction

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

A FEW years ago, some friends entrusted Feedback with a pool of money to bet on a horse in the Grand National. We accidentally backed the wrong horse, but luckily it came first, instead of the one our friends had chosen. That narrow shave made us suspicious of gambling. After all, in the long run …

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Letters

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