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11 September 2004

Issue 2464

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The origin of Harriet

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Silent alarm

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Battle of the bag

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Fat-free obesity

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Hijacking the terrorists

Boeing is patenting a system designed to deter hijackers (US 2004/0162670). In future, it suggests planes would have an extra autopilot system that would take over and land the aircraft at the nearest predetermined landing site in the event of a hijacking. If sensors detect a breach of the cockpit door, or the air crew …

News

Technology

Shock-absorbing veg

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Technology

Hybrid cars driven by rising oil prices

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

Ships shape up to fight killer waves

News

Technology

A really hot gadget

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Technology

The robot that needs to kill

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Technology

Atomic timing comes to a gadget near you

News

Early entry for two-legged race

News

Modern world has a heart of glass

News

Hawaiian tsunami left a gift at foot of volcano

News

Early Americans spoiled their lake

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Caring parents

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Born to love pretty faces

News

Depressing news for diarists

News

Mother's milk proves its worth

News

Iran off the hook

News

Extrasolar scuffle

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On the brink of a caviar ban

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AIDS vaccine flop

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Bespoke medicine

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Animal dispute

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60 Seconds

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Not quite the day after tomorrow

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How to lose weight without even trying

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Can fish factories make cheap drugs?

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Finding out why big is warm but small is cool

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A service to hide caller's identity

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Locust army gathers in Africa

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Time for Linnaeus to leave the stage

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Genome copying could unlock bacterial mysteries

News

Neutron stars steal space probe's glory

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One louse or two?

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THE director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, reckons it is time to abandon the notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue nuclear weapons, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them (New Scientist, 10 July, p 17) . Speaking at the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference in Washington …

Opinion

New Scientist's selection on consciousness

Opinion

Think global, act global

Opinion

Give it to us straight

Opinion

Features

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The origin of Harriet

THE world's oldest known living animal is Harriet, a giant Galapagos tortoise living in the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland, who recently celebrated her 173rd birthday. But Harriet has a better claim to fame than that. She is widely thought to have been plucked from her island home by none other than Charles Darwin, who …

Features

Silent alarm

Features

Battle of the bag

Features

Fat-free obesity

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More

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Sorting out the families

On the Origin of Phyla By James Valentine, University of Chicago Press, $55, ISBN 0226845486 THE most important event in the history of life is still a mystery. In rocks of the Cambrian age, laid down in the sea more than 520 million years ago, animal fossils suddenly become abundant, and within a few million …

Books & Arts

Deceivers all

Books & Arts

Friendly nutters

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Miraculous year

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Getting on

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The book of crabs

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Watch those wings

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Berkeley

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE time has come for Feedback to humbly offer Stephen Hawking some advice. In July, the physicist told New Scientist that he didn't know what to work on now that he has sorted out the black hole information paradox. So we turned to the collective brain of our readers and asked for problems profound enough …

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