Issue 2065 | Magazine cover date: 18 January 1997

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18 January 1997

Issue 2065

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Features

Into the eleventh dimension

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scan : small wonders

Opinion

Editorial : A well-protected site? – IN THE villages of the English countryside there are still people whoremember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. Theresimply wasn't any crime to worry about.

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Into the eleventh dimension

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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.

Secrets of a perfect skin

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Chilling light

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Hooked on drugs - Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

Features

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AFTER 40 years of working with microscopic algae in marine and freshwater environments, from oceans to flower vases, New Zealand researcher Vivienne Cassie Cooper has tired of waiting for the community to recognise their significance. So she has privately published a lavishly illustrated, 160-page book about the organisms. Entitled Microalgae: Microscopic marvels, the book is …

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random samples : Genetic investment

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bytes : Great surge forward

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bytes : Still looking

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Science : How nerve cells learn to take the heat

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scan : rat citings

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Australasian : Peter Bridgewater...downloaded

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Technology : Pig cells keep cholesterol at bay

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Technology : Altered tobacco plants raise hepatitis hopes

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Technology : Vote early, vote often in telephone polls

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Technology : Renegade antibodies captured by evolving RNA

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Technology : Coated windows will let the sun shine in

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Science : Lost forests leave West Africa dry

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Science : Leftovers of the Milky Way's birth

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Science : Images from the edge of darkness

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Science : A black hole may lurk at the heart of every galaxy

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Technology

Technology : Digital data comes down the mains

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Technology : When I got my PC home, it was obsolete …

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Staying nuclear

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Rice redundancies

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Your money or your life – Will gene testing tell insurance companies anything about diseases theydon't know already?

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Science : The shape of diamonds to come

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Science : Giant sloth was armed to kill

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Science : X-rays reveal secret of drug's strength

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Soft, strong and very long

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Seaweed sickness

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Space monkey dies

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Rocket postmortem

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Sign here

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In the dark

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… as Pentagon prepares for biowar

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Violent art eased urban tensions

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Comet crash spied by the Sun King's court

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Prion test will identify victims of tainted beef

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Orbital junk threatens space station

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Doctors dissect Gulf sickness mystery...

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Einstein's insights come into focus

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Human transplants of animal organs `too risky'

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Tooth decay linked to persistent lead pollution

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Could stray explosives incriminate the innocent?

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I could swear it was him, officer

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Web sites are a hacker's heaven

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Opinion

Editorial : A well-protected site? – IN THE villages of the English countryside there are still people whoremember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. Theresimply wasn't any crime to worry about.

IN THE villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasn't any crime to worry about. Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the world's biggest community. A new study by the eccentric programming …

Opinion

Editorial : Chance would be a fine thing - HOW much is a nanogram? It is, of course, a very small quantity indeed—just a thousand millionth of a gram. But such is the fabulous power of analytical chemistry that similar vanishingly small quantities o

Opinion

Features

Space

Into the eleventh dimension

IS THERE a Final Theory in physics? Will we one day have a complete theory that will explain everything from subatomic particles, atoms and supernovae to the big bang? Einstein spent the last 30 years of his life in a fruitless quest for the fabled unified field theory. His approach has since been written off …

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Secrets of a perfect skin

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Chilling light

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Hooked on drugs - Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

Features

Review : Damn lies

Everybody knows one epigram about statistics and, yes, here it is in Statistically Speaking (Institute of Physics, £19.95/$40, ISBN 0 7503 0401 4), a collection of wise, striking and frequently witty remarks about them. The contents are arranged by subject so that you can find your way around easily. Subject? Isn't it statistics? Yes, but …

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Review : ...to lunar bishops

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Review : The particulars of particles

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Review : Lively wetware seeks friendly software

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Review : Collected works

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Bestsellers : from Oxford

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Forum : Blame it on the beards - Martin Brookes thinks there's much to be gained from a smooth appearance

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Review : How the mind works out

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Antipodes : From bush telegraph to information superhighway - Ian Lowe explores the barriers to bringing farmers on-line

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Thistle diary : Contract culture and Net connections - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Forum : Double trouble in academe

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Review : Monster mash

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Review : Famous five

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Review : Staying conscious

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Review : Here's looking through you

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EVERYONE knows why hedgehogs end up dead on the roads: they like to look for food there. But, when a car approaches, they curl up defensively rather than try to escape. And why do they hunt on the roads? Because the warm asphalt attracts insects and, after rain, it is a good place to catch …

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This week's magazine

18 January 1997

On the cover

Space

Into the eleventh dimension

Secrets of a perfect skin

Chilling light

Hooked on drugs - Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

Table of contents

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scan : small wonders

changing places :

random samples : Genetic investment

bytes : Great surge forward

bytes : Still looking

Science : How nerve cells learn to take the heat

scan : rat citings

Australasian : Peter Bridgewater...downloaded

Technology

Technology : Pig cells keep cholesterol at bay

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Altered tobacco plants raise hepatitis hopes

Technology

Technology : Vote early, vote often in telephone polls

Technology

Technology : Renegade antibodies captured by evolving RNA

Technology

Technology : Coated windows will let the sun shine in

Science : Lost forests leave West Africa dry

Science : Leftovers of the Milky Way's birth

Science : Images from the edge of darkness

Science : A black hole may lurk at the heart of every galaxy

Technology

Technology : Digital data comes down the mains

Technology

Technology : When I got my PC home, it was obsolete …

Staying nuclear

Rice redundancies

Your money or your life – Will gene testing tell insurance companies anything about diseases theydon't know already?

Science : The shape of diamonds to come

Science : Giant sloth was armed to kill

Science : X-rays reveal secret of drug's strength

Soft, strong and very long

Seaweed sickness

Space monkey dies

Rocket postmortem

Sign here

In the dark

… as Pentagon prepares for biowar

Violent art eased urban tensions

Comet crash spied by the Sun King's court

Prion test will identify victims of tainted beef

Orbital junk threatens space station

Doctors dissect Gulf sickness mystery...

Einstein's insights come into focus

Human transplants of animal organs `too risky'

Tooth decay linked to persistent lead pollution

Could stray explosives incriminate the innocent?

I could swear it was him, officer

Web sites are a hacker's heaven

Opinion

Editorial : A well-protected site? – IN THE villages of the English countryside there are still people whoremember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. Theresimply wasn't any crime to worry about.

Editorial : Chance would be a fine thing - HOW much is a nanogram? It is, of course, a very small quantity indeed—just a thousand millionth of a gram. But such is the fabulous power of analytical chemistry that similar vanishingly small quantities o

Features

Space

Into the eleventh dimension

Secrets of a perfect skin

Chilling light

Hooked on drugs - Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

More

Review : Damn lies

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