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22 February 1997

Issue 2070

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Australia's giant lab

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An awfully deep adventure

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Best noses in the business

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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

Patents : Racing certainty

A GERMAN company, Benzing Technische Uhren of Villingen-Schwenningen, hopes to attack the fraud that now spoils the once innocent sport of pigeon racing (UP patent application 2 300 510). Very large bets are often laid on the first bird to reach its loft after being released from a common starting point. But the high rewards …

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Patents : Worse than its bite

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Technology

Patents : Snap decision

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Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Wobble drives pirates off the digital seas

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Technology : Ultrafast modems jump the gun

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Technology

Patents : Taken to the cleaners year after year

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Technology

Patents : Come on you reds

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Technology

Patents : Cold comfort

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Science : Global warming chills out over Pacific

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Science : They heard it on the grapevine. . .

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Science : Cosmic `ruler' rejuvenates stars

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Science : Cracking the code of custom drugs

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Technology

Technology : Mighty mouse takes on hepatitis

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Technology

Technology : Power spectacles bring the world into focus

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Technology

Technology : Planes at risk from space intruders

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Science : Molecular impostor uncoils DNA theory

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Science : Go on then, have the broccoli if you must

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Science : Early start for the long march south

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Britain's forgotten children - Childhood mental illnesses too often go unnoticed, ignored or untreated. Psychologists say that unless children's problems are taken seriously they will carry them into adulthood

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Thanks for the memories

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Slow down, rainstorms ahead

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What's serotonin got to do with it?

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Despots put it about a bit

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Pregnancy protein hits out at skin tumours

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Furore in US over patents for `bit part' DNA

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Lovely junk

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Asthma surprise

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Whale warning

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Yoghurt setback

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Russian roulette

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Drugs bust

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Chop down a tree to save the forest

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Quickening pulse gets the measure of a neutron star

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A rare glimpse of endangered orchids

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Space elite to get their juste rewards

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Flies enlisted to fight fire ants

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Jaws bids for Olympic gory

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Thirsty Britain resorts to salt water

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Insurers fight shy of gene tests

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`Brutal' plan cuts off researchers in their prime

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Web bank robbers poised to pounce

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A cheeky little powder, and it travels well

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Did lax officials let Britons drink a deadly pinta?

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Opinion

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Editorial : The real state of the nation - HOW should we judge a nation? Inflation indices and per capita wealth are one way. But a deeper measure of a nation's success is surely the mental health of its children. Here, sad to say, Britain has little to s

HOW should we judge a nation? Inflation indices and per capita wealth are one way. But a deeper measure of a nation's success is surely the mental health of its children. Here, sad to say, Britain has little to shout about. It is hard to know whether a report to be released by the House …

Opinion

Editorial : What price perfection? - LEGEND has it that when Nobel laureate James Watson was raising money for human genetics research in the 1980s, he would tousle his hair and untie his shoelaces to create the image of the brilliant but distracted profe

Opinion

Features

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.

Welcome to clusterworld

Birmingham WITH 92 natural elements to choose from, anybody trying to create a new material should be spoilt for choice. Or so you might think. In fact, this menu has proven rather restrictive, and scientists would love to be able to extend it. So here's a thought: the properties of a material don't depend just …

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Australia's giant lab

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An awfully deep adventure

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Best noses in the business

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More

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AustralAsian : Camera makers focus on Australian software - Bob Johnstone investigates the fast-growing market in digital cameras

THE digital camera is set to be the hit product of 1997 and many of those sold will come loaded with software produced by a small Melbourne company with Japanese connections. The company is called the ISR Group. Its software is known as ixlaPhoto. The software provides personal computer users with a simple way to …

Forum

Washington diary : Public power and private patter - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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Forum : More bucks for the box - Will people really pay through the nose to watch digital TV asks Barry Fox

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Review : Phoney war

Books & Arts

Review : Book wormery

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Review : Big time

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Review : Birthday of a death star underground

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Review : Eaten alive in Edinburgh

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Review : Biophilia is in the blood

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Review : Kids' stuff

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Review : Heavenly motion

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Bestsellers : from Oxford

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Review : Collected works

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Forum : A many splendoured thing...

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Review : Over the Moon

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Review : True or false

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Review : Skulls and crossed bones

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Review : The gaze dissected

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Review : HIV directory

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Sushi blues Q: Some Japanese restaurants serve hot drinks in small ceramic beakers. The beakers rapidly turn deep blue, and then return to normal as the beaker begins to cool. What is happening and how? A: One of the colouring agents in the ceramic is a complex ion of hexaquo cobalt (II). This complex cation …

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