Issue 2031 | Magazine cover date: 25 May 1996

This week's magazine

25 May 1996

Issue 2031

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Features

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

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Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer

Opinion

Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own - FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

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Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

Features

Body of evidence

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All aboard the Pluto Express

Features

Panning for data gold

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Technology

Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer

COLON cancers transplanted into mice have been persuaded to self-destruct by an experimental form of gene therapy. Pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo Wellcome devised the technique with the Cancer Research Campaign and hopes to begin trials in people within the next 18 months. First the mice are injected with a virus that smuggles a special gene into …

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Netropolitan :

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Technology : What goes up stays up a little longer

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Patents : Plea for more cash for innovators

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Patents : Light brigade

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Patents : Gotta chew

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Patents : See hear

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Patents : Pop-up TV

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Patents : Mary, Mary

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Technology : One step nearer the Sun

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Technology : Look out, it's behind you

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Science : How to give a dinosaur the hump

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Science : Glowing embers at the edge of time

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Technology

Technology : Do-it-all protein helps kidney repair

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Technology : Second-hand PCs `will sink Internet machines'

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Technology : Big fat tokamak gets thumbs-up

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Science : Sunspots send winter storms flying north

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Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe

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Science : Squaring HIV's vicious circle

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Science : Larvae give dancing bees bad vibes

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Science : Fossil finds don't toe the line

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US feed ban

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Safe weight loss

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Gene battle

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Fire alarm

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Record breaker

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Farming for distant degrees - Students on remote crofts in Scotland's Highlands and Islands are about to join the 21st century as education's electronic revolution brings lectures into their homes

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Science : Mutants tear up nature's timetable

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Swiss planned a nuclear bomb

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All eyes on near-miss asteroid

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Scourge of infections kills Third World's young

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LA's garden gas guzzlers die for a good cause

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Plug a leak and save the world

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What's it like to be a gorilla?

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France ignores benefits of folic acid

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Military cash tempts more universities

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Wide awake surgery keeps killer cells on the alert

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Navy's bureaucrats cling to `open secrets'

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Mexico fishes for end to tuna ban

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Cold shoulder for climate research

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Forensic lab awash with Semtex

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Opinion

Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own - FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility. Using the most sensitive gas chromatography machines, they can search samples for the tiniest traces of explosives. A mere 5 nanograms—just five billionths of a gram—of RDX, one of the two components of Semtex, might be enough to link a suspect to …

Opinion

Editorial : Time to bury inflation? - ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t

Opinion

Features

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

"WHAT bugs you about your face?" demands Dr Arnold Klein, dermatologist to Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and now 51��'s Los Angeles office. There is plenty to choose from. He's already pointed out that my upper lip is discoloured, the mark of a past pregnancy. The skin sags more on the left side of my …

Features

Body of evidence

Features

All aboard the Pluto Express

Features

Panning for data gold

Features

The Milky Way

DON'T mess with the Milky Way Galaxy. In 1994, astronomers discovered the ruins of a dwarf galaxy that had strayed too close to the shores of our Galaxy and was being ripped apart by its tide. This luckless object was our Galaxy's latest victim, and its stars will soon be devoured by the Milky Way's …

Inside Science

Washington diary : Under wraps and on the rocks - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

AustralAsian : Telemedicine in need of a check-up - Bob Johnstone finds Australia is unprepared for Asian health boom

Forum

Enigma 876 : Short circuit

Forum

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : The trouble with Piggy's specs

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Forum : Nature green in leaf and stem

Forum

Review : Raining facts

Books & Arts

Review : Hawkeye

Books & Arts

Review : Flora's daughters

Books & Arts

Review : Master of the skulls

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Review : Green grow the literati, oh

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Pulling them in

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Review : Doing the rounds

Books & Arts

Review : Prizewinners

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Review : Enfants sauvages

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Review : Zoo-ology

Books & Arts

Review : Bomb ROM

Books & Arts

Review : Written in the genes

Books & Arts

Review : Space, sex and sums

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Resonant request Q: Why are metals sonorous? Our physics and chemistry A level teacher does not know and no reason is given in any of the textbooks we can find. A: A sonorous material makes a ringing noise when struck—striking a material puts a force on it and it deforms slightly. If it is an …

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This week's magazine

25 May 1996

On the cover

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

Body of evidence

All aboard the Pluto Express

Panning for data gold

Table of contents

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Technology

Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : What goes up stays up a little longer

Technology

Patents : Plea for more cash for innovators

Technology

Patents : Light brigade

Technology

Patents : Gotta chew

Technology

Patents : See hear

Technology

Patents : Pop-up TV

Technology

Patents : Mary, Mary

Technology

Technology : One step nearer the Sun

Technology

Technology : Look out, it's behind you

Science : How to give a dinosaur the hump

Science : Glowing embers at the edge of time

Technology

Technology : Do-it-all protein helps kidney repair

Technology

Technology : Second-hand PCs `will sink Internet machines'

Technology

Technology : Big fat tokamak gets thumbs-up

Science : Sunspots send winter storms flying north

Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe

Science : Squaring HIV's vicious circle

Science : Larvae give dancing bees bad vibes

Science : Fossil finds don't toe the line

US feed ban

Safe weight loss

Gene battle

Fire alarm

Record breaker

Farming for distant degrees - Students on remote crofts in Scotland's Highlands and Islands are about to join the 21st century as education's electronic revolution brings lectures into their homes

Science : Mutants tear up nature's timetable

Swiss planned a nuclear bomb

All eyes on near-miss asteroid

Scourge of infections kills Third World's young

LA's garden gas guzzlers die for a good cause

Plug a leak and save the world

What's it like to be a gorilla?

France ignores benefits of folic acid

Military cash tempts more universities

Wide awake surgery keeps killer cells on the alert

Navy's bureaucrats cling to `open secrets'

Mexico fishes for end to tuna ban

Cold shoulder for climate research

Forensic lab awash with Semtex

Opinion

Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own - FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

Editorial : Time to bury inflation? - ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t

Features

Wrinkle Wars - The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

Body of evidence

All aboard the Pluto Express

Panning for data gold

More

The Milky Way

Washington diary : Under wraps and on the rocks - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

AustralAsian : Telemedicine in need of a check-up - Bob Johnstone finds Australia is unprepared for Asian health boom

Enigma 876 : Short circuit

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Forum : The trouble with Piggy's specs

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