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21 August 1999

Issue 2200

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War of words

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A stellar performance

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War of words

Features

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Life

The Martians in your kidneys

Features

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Virtuoso performance

Features

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Space

Fractured Universe

Features

Table of contents

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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.

Waste water preserves food

WASTE water from olive oil production could be an abundant source of cheap natural preservatives for food and cosmetics, say researchers in Italy. Each year, Italy's olive oil industry generates more than 800 000 tonnes of waste water. Olive mills use huge amounts of warm water to wash the olive paste. So all the water-soluble …

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Hidden scars

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Devastating diversity

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Inflated claims

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Frayed nerves

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Flying fire hazard

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Health

Old adversary

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Health

The second wave

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Mysterious force

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Yum yum...

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A long story

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Stripy bunny

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Deadly stowaway

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Lynx fall prey to the vagaries of weather

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Eclipse eyewitness

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Elvis lives

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Breathe easier

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Bettering the triple test

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Bright idea

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Health

Season to taste

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Technology

Free for all?

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Technology

Shot while gaming

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Technology

Flashy warning

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Technology

Big bang theory

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Speedy healer

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Reading the future

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Precocious

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Do clock genes make addiction tick?

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You can run, but you can't hide

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Silent safeguard

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We're too courteous to madding computers

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Smoke on the water

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Starry mix-up

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You've got it taped

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Spies like us

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Don't mention Darwin

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The cluster culprit

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Roll-over week

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Cat farm closes

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Crash landing

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Forewarned

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The champions

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Opinion

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A stellar performance

A COMBINATION of chance, unusual dedication, and growing antipodean cultural identity have led a New Zealander and an Australian independently to discover a nova—the rare event of an exploding star. One Saturday evening, Alan Gilmore of the University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory on the South Island of New Zealand and Australian amateur astronomer Peter …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Life without NASA

Opinion

The gene healer

Opinion

Wolves at the door

Opinion

Only teleconnect

Opinion

Features

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War of words

HUMANS are quintessentially verbal creatures. Ours is a world of words—so much so that it is impossible even to imagine life without language. No wonder, then, that anthropologists are obsessed with finding out why and how language evolved, and, equally, linguists are obsessed with trying to understand how each of us comes to acquire this …

Features

Life

The Martians in your kidneys

Features

Virtuoso performance

Features

Space

Fractured Universe

Features

More

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Reality check

Pandora's Hope by Bruno Latour, Harvard, $19.95/£12.50, ISBN 067465336X (paperback) B-52 BOMBERS do not fly, Bruno Latour cordially insists. And if you ask Latour, who is Professor of the Sociology of Innovation at the School of Mines in Paris, whether microbes existed before Louis Pasteur discovered them in 1865, he may well answer that it …

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from Oxford

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Go with the Flo

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Shore thing

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Warm bugs

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Spicy tales

Books & Arts

Time after time

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Feedback

SOME people seem determined to take all the fun out of fondling fruit. Engineering students at the University of Delaware have invented a computer-controlled sensor for testing how ripe water melons are. It could, according to William J. Watson, executive director of the US National Watermelon Association, result in huge savings for the water melon …

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