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29 April 2000

Issue 2236

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The queen's favourite forger

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The queen's favourite forger

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.

Thrill or chill

Features

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Inside story

Features

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Beastly passions

Features

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Shallow grave

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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.

Carbon guzzlers

WARM springs cause trees to increase their take-up of carbon, complicating efforts to determine the link between climate change and the carbon cycle. A new study of a deciduous forest in Canada shows that it takes up more carbon in years with warm springs, says Andy Black of the University of British Columbia. The average …

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Toxic mop

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Crunch time

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Flying by smell

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All in the mind

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Trial by laptop

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Water cooled

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Ticked off

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Easy MP3

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Easy clean

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Macedonian mix-up

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Good Samaritans are really vampires

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It's not our fault

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Mysterious particles go round the bend

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Hitting the nerve

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Robostripper makes short work of old paint

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Health

Warning signals

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Technology

Up and away

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Technology

Softening the impact

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Technology

Blood blocker

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Rainbow vision

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Eggs with attitude

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Savour the aroma

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Identifying victims of pesticide poisoning

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On the record

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Technology

Stolen moments

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Counting the cost

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Surprises in store

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Weakened by disease

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Prize skull

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Please come . . .

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Life

Elephant nations call a truce

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Life

Plant poachers

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Life

Eating our relatives

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Life

Shawls of shame

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Life

Save our sharks

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Life

Shell shock

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Wild at heart

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Space

There's no ER in orbit

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

IT CAN happen to anyone. You go into a store, see an item you like the look of, find that you have just enough money to pay for it and, when the clerk rings it up, you realise you forgot to add on sales tax and can't afford it. That's how Representative James Sensenbrenner felt …

Opinion

Learning business

Opinion

Trouble ahead

Opinion

My pet possum

Opinion

Road to survival

Opinion

Features

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The queen's favourite forger

Small, thin and tarnished, the silver sixpence doesn't look like the cause of so much trouble. But the clues are there. Its impressions of the bejewelled Queen Elizabeth I and of the English and French coats of arms are clear-cut. Its edge is sharp and almost perfectly round. For, unlike its predecessors, this coin was …

Features

Thrill or chill

Features

Inside story

Features

Beastly passions

Features

Shallow grave

Features

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See Mars!

The success of Mars Pathfinder—100 million hits on the NASA website—did not go unnoticed by Hollywood. Now, three years later, we have Brian de Palma's Mission to Mars. The makers did their homework on Mars, but lost the plot with the, er, plot. NASA's scientists, with $70 million to play with, would have created a …

Books & Arts

Blowing hot and cold

Books & Arts

One man's cosmos

Books & Arts

Drowning in it

Books & Arts

Beauty in distress

Books & Arts

Save me

Books & Arts

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Feedback

READERS with a taste for the banal may be interested in a new online magazine, the Journal of Mundane Behavior. Hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, the JMB is a "scholarly journal devoted to the study of the `unmarked'—those aspects of our …

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