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11 October 1997

Issue 2103

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Blessed is the weak

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Blustery outlook

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Editorial : On the edge
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Blessed is the weak

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Radiation roulette

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Blowing hot and cold

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On a wing and a vortex

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Blustery outlook

Denmark last week launched the first phase of its plan to use wind power to generate 5500 megawatts of electricity—half its national consumption—by 2030. Environment minister Svend Auken announced that 500 large turbines, enough to generate 750 megawatts of electricity, will be built in shallow coastal waters by 2008. This will increase the country's wind-power …

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No explanation

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Sulphurous ships

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Galactic record

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Alice beams up `entangled' photon

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Hunt the nectar

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Friendly faces

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Rabbit killers

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Let's talk about sex

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This time it's goodbye forever

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What goes up…

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The zinging detector

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Floppy discs get the picture

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Born wheezers

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Return of the wee trees

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Hitting back at superpests

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Faking it

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Dummy lullaby

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This car's got bottle

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Fly-by-wire

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El Niño is innocent for once

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For your ears only

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The bigger the better

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First-ever designer protein fits like a glove

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Small, dark and macho

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The best bits

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Light fantastic

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Ugly bugs make drugs

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AIDS drug cocktails fail in the real world

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One-way wires

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Scorched earth

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Nobel splits top brains

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Tight fit

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The hole truth

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Drilling for gravity

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Flashing lights betray intruders

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Better out than in

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Sue is sold

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Beet vandals

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Wrong orbit

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Just hot air?

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Vaccine failure

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Baked Alaska

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Secrets of a stealthy killer

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Chromosome lost

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Stellar wraith

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Jobs for the ants

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Martian canyon

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Breathing space

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Opinion

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Editorial : On the edge

CONGRATULATIONS to the Nobel Assembly for taking a wholly unpredicted step into one of the most controversial areas of science. We have often chided the Nobel committees for giving prizes for work that has long passed into the textbooks. But we did not expect to see Stanley Prusiner win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or …

Opinion

Editorial : A sad death in the family - Does the public want real live scientists?

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.

Blessed is the weak

FOUR fundamental forces. It is an old refrain in physics. Gravity and electromagnetism, along with the "strong" and "weak" nuclear forces, seem to account for all that happens in the world. Gravity holds the stars together and keeps our feet on the ground. The electromagnetic force binds electrons into atoms and drives the complex web …

Features

Radiation roulette

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Blowing hot and cold

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On a wing and a vortex

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More

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Thistle diary :

Westminster DRUG regulatory authorities earn much of their income through the licensing of new medicines. This encourages them to sell themselves to the world's drugs companies "as the fastest in reviewing and approving drugs", a report from Britain's Economic and Social Research Council claims. Reading these words in Michael Day's article on Europe's drug regulators …

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Antipodes : End of the road?

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Student books : Bestsellers from Oxford

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Forum : Running on empty

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Forum : Damage limitation in the deep

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Student books : The brothers Bernoulli

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Student books : Herbiphile

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Student books : Mechanics ancient and modern

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Student books : Agenda setter

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Student books : The whole story

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Student books : House of magic

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Student books : Piece of pi

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Student books : Plant life

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Student books : Earth's economics

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Student books : Come back, Aesop

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Student books : A drop of the hard stuff

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Student books : Digging Scotland

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Student books : Life and the ocean wave

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Student books : More authorities

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Student books : Rocks on record

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Student books : Holding hands

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Student books : No gold fingers

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Student books : Past authorities

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Feedback

WHERE DO scientific ideas first appear? Looking back 35 years reveals one possibility. In the early 1960s, American TV aired a popular weekly cartoon called The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. In one sequence, the dimwitted hero, Bullwinkle J. Moose, notices that his normally frozen home town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, is starting to thaw much …

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