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3 August 2002

Issue 2354

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Eau de toilet

Features
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The golden meme

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Juice on the loose

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Wallaby nations

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Never say die

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News

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Breath of fresh air

DWARF galaxies are pumping oxygen and other heavy elements out into intergalactic space. Astronomers have long wondered how heavy elements produced only in stars wind up in the space between galaxies. They suspected small galaxies were the source, but had no proof until turning the Chandra X-Ray Observatory towards a galaxy called NGC 1569. The …

News

Bristling dinosaurs

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No clock in the knees

News

Gift of life

News

Technology

Robots will learn like we do

News

Technology

The forget-me-not bot keeps people on time

News

Technology

Chat to the chat room on your cellphone

News

Landsat turns 30 and celebrates with style

News

The end is fly

News

The underdog might win the day

News

Secret lives of dogs

News

Technology

Private view

News

Technology

Webbed goalies

News

Technology

Guessing game

News

Why not run your car on a greenhouse gas?

News

Pufferfish helps unlock secrets of human genome

News

North Sea crash site mirrors craters on Jupiter's icy moons

News

We hear that…

News

If it's going to blow, we'll know

News

Stem cells could save sight

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They can run but they can't hide, and that's bad news for growing chicks

News

Technology

News

Truck trains to fight own fires

News

You must remember this…

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Armageddon postponed…until 2060

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Do tumours thrive on morphine?

News

Sound unlocks the brain

News

The bright idea that could replace your flickering fluorescents with a cool glow

News

GM row delays food aid

News

Drought hits India

News

Natural high helps banish bad times

News

Soundbites

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Fertility hope for chemo patients as doctors grow eggs outside the body

News

Dispatches

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Test to monitor fin trade

News

Row over in-car alerts for emergency vehicles

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Doctors still push myths about IUDs

News

Ancient smiths forged to last

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We hear that…

News

Ecological hotspots named as latest casualties in Colombia's drugs war

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

TALK of a national energy research centre is in the air again. So I asked Prime Minister Tony Blair about the proposals, which I hear he and David King, the government's Chief Scientific Adviser, set great store by. Blair said the Department for Trade and Industry leads the field on this matter. Establishing such a …

Opinion

Bliss

Opinion

How theother half live

Opinion

Their hands on your genes

Opinion

When myths kill

Opinion

Apocalypse? not now thanks

Opinion

Features

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Eau de toilet

If you could peek into the kitchen of any gadget-conscious citizen of late 18th-century Britain, you might spot Dr Nooth's "Apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air". In Georgian times, this elegant tower of glassware was as essential to the design-conscious household as a Philippe Starck lemon squeezer is today. Dr Nooth's three-tiered apparatus added …

Features

The golden meme

Features

Juice on the loose

Features

Wallaby nations

Features

Never say die

Features

More

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And river run

Rivers are too capricious for cities. They flood and stink. Many have been buried underground, in sewers, for our greater convenience. Now that city inhabitants are demanding their return, Urban Rivers: Our inheritance and future (IWA Publishing) should have been a chance to celebrate. Sadly, Geoff Petts and company make it read like a compendium …

Books & Arts

Mapping Human History by Steve Olson

Books & Arts

How you've changed

Books & Arts

Star performances

Books & Arts

Never trust an expert

Books & Arts

Beyond the clock face

Books & Arts

Whatever the weather

Books & Arts

Past polymath

Books & Arts

Early netheads

Books & Arts

George dons the bloodstained purple

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

STAFF at New Scientist were bemused last week by an email from Kim Daewoo Dogmeat, the "World Cup dog-meat supplier". The company exhorts us to transcend narrow cultural prejudice and sample the healthful delights of dog meat, a traditional Korean delicacy. It provides details on history, nutrition, recipes and an online order form. Now, it …

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