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4 June 2005

Issue 2502

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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.

Technology

Pitch battle over artificial grass

Features
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Earth

China: A land turned to dust

Features
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Space

Illusions of a starry, starry night

Features

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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.

Technology

Fashion industry covets 'iPod factor'

CAN you imagine putting your address book and photo album on in the morning along with your socks? Or how about using a "3D printer" to make your own shoes on demand? How about clothes peppered with plastic LEDs that let you change the fabric's pattern at will? These are just some of the bizarre …

News

Technology

We, robots, will look after you

News

Technology

Flash memory chips to replace disc drives

News

Technology

Smell before you buy – over the internet

News

Technology

Introducing the Robomop

News

Technology

See virtual worlds in the round

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

Pay up or the PC gets it

News

Space

Mystery rays could be sign of cosmic strings

News

Life

Animal found harbouring plant gene

News

Life

Barriers to embryo testing go down

News

Health

Teeth brushing breaks up bacterial families

News

Earth

Plant hotspots in protection peril

News

Health

Ageing bladders do not become more wee

News

Life

Good tunes can ease surgery distress

News

Earth

New probe may silence climate sceptics

News

Earth

El Niño helped beetles beat invader

News

Health

This apple a day keeps the doctor further away

News

Physics

Wormhole travel – a risky proposition

News

Space

Jupiter's porous potato-moon mystery

News

Space

Comets may confuse the planet-hunters

News

Life

Secret to long life in lower protein and fat

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Infant males affected by 'gender-bending' chemicals

News

Health

Can Tamiflu save us from bird flu?

News

Earth

Cities lead way to a greener planet

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Hormone spray makes people more trusting

News

Earth

US dam plans rejected over wildlife concerns

News

Life

Gun violence may be infectious

News

Earth

Nuclear plant closure may be premature

News

Life

Cultural differences in stem cell research

News

Technology

Tracking a PC worm's back to its source

News

Life

Mind-reading mums boost babies' development

News

Opinion

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Life

Animals and us: Our hypocrisy

Gary L. Francione is professor of law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Distinguished Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey. His books include Introduction to Animal Rights: Your child or the dog? (2000), Rain Without Thunder: The ideology of the animal rights movement (1996) and Animals, Property, and the …

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Practical passions

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Getting inside their heads

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Suspicious minds

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Me and my pet

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Close encounters

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: Forward to the revolution

Opinion

Life

Animals and us: It's a dog's life

Opinion

Life

I am not a molecule

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: It pays to be green

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Send in the bird flu inspectors

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Pitch battle over artificial grass

I'M IN Dunfermline, the ancient capital of Scotland. The town is home to a beautiful old abbey and royal palace, the final resting place of Robert the Bruce, and the birthplace of Andrew Carnegie, the man behind Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. But I'm not here for the tourist attractions. For me …

Features

Earth

China: A land turned to dust

Features

Space

Illusions of a starry, starry night

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.

Lights, camera, action...

THE story started in July last year as President Bush signed the Project Bioshield Act, unleashing a $5.6 billion procurement programme to acquire an arsenal of drugs and vaccines to protect against or combat the effects of any future bioterrorist attacks. Even then it was clear that the act would fall far short of its …

Careers

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Feedback

Music with knobs on FRINGE medicine may provide our richest vein of creative marketing prose, but audiophiles seem determined give the snake-oil people a run for their money – as evinced by P. W. B. Electronics, for example, ( www.belt.demon.co.uk ). For the bargain price of £20 per pack, P. W. B.'s Rainbow Electret Foil …

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