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31 August 2002

Issue 2358

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Technology

Whisky galore

Features
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Fires from hell

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Toxic tide

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Dangerous liaisons

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I know what you'll do next summer

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News

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.

Autism link crumbling

GUT disease does not make children more likely to develop autism. The new finding undermines a crucial link in the argument that the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine can cause autism. Critics of the MMR vaccine argue that it aggravates chronic gut disease, which subsequently triggers autism. But by analysing data from British GPs, …

News

Fish in a hurry

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Deep-sea haven

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Trails of destruction

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Homemade antimatter

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Green light for ion age

News

Shape is everything for a good glass of wine

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Try licking this for the ultimate tingle…

News

Toxin detector can find one molecule at a time

News

Radio emerges from the electronic soup

News

Ancient time capsule reveals Martian past

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Down on the farm the bees are in charge

News

The house that cack built

News

In-flight emergencies

News

New lead in hunt for malaria vaccine

News

In the mane, darker is more desirable

News

Sperm remember which way they swam

News

Cosmic pillow fight could fend off space invaders

News

Technology

Red means dead

News

Technology

Light conversation

News

Technology

Key position

News

The Sun warmed up evolution for us all

News

Soundbites

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Jet-setting mozzie blamed for malaria case

News

We hear that…

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Cows like their clover with a side salad

News

Death in the skies

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Dispatches

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World summit

News

Pig-cell transplant hope for diabetics

News

Dead satellites haunt GPS

News

Olympic palace on shaky ground?

News

Mystery surrounds bizarre mental disease afflicting Britain's birds

News

Coming soon, the not-so-stealthy bomber heading for a TV near you

News

Good legs teach bad legs to walk

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

REPELLING invaders has become something of an obsession in Washington. Not only are we on the lookout for more terrorists, but President Bush is now talking about going to where he says they live – Iraq, for example – and getting rid of them just in case anyone wants to become a terrorist. The government …

Opinion

The Word Lake Baikal

Opinion

Why grey matters

Opinion

Why we must pay more

Opinion

What lies beneath

Opinion

Hot-zone bugs spread their wings

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Whisky galore

Today it's the Inland Revenue. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the person people most loved to hate was the Excise Man, the killjoy who measured the contents of every still, barrel and jug and then demanded money with menaces. Resentment against the Excise grew after the introduction of the Distilling Act of 1779, …

Features

Fires from hell

Features

Toxic tide

Features

Dangerous liaisons

Features

I know what you'll do next summer

Features

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An artist in your lab

Envisioning Science: The design and craft of the science image by Felice Frankel, MIT Press, £37.95, ISBN 0262062259 A DROP of magnetic fluid that would have appeared as a dark blob in most journal papers transforms into a blackberry swatted into a Tequila Sunrise. Many of Felice Frankel's images are stunning, and she reckons scientists …

Books & Arts

The sum of our parts

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Oxford

Books & Arts

Lines on lectures

Books & Arts

Space visitors

Books & Arts

Buffalo tales

Books & Arts

Global gobbledegook

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THIS WEEK'S offbeat research comes from the University of Warwick, where Matthew Corder and Andrew Oswald have completed a study of the demand for personalised licence plates. The researchers wanted to gain a better understanding of the way people value things that they believe give then status but seem to have little other use. They …

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