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31 July 1999

Issue 2197

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Making a splash

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Rocket salad

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Ride the fireball

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Geroff my tail!

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Love sick

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Unusual suspects

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Dazzling carrots

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Seriously cool

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Burnt offerings

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Life

How was it for her?

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News

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.

Inside job

THE strain of Escherichia coli that causes diarrhoea in infants hijacks the immune system to help it along. Lisa Higgins of the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry and her colleagues showed that a protein produced by E. coli binds to the immune system's T cells. This thickens the gut lining, providing fresh cells …

News

Live wire

News

Wet blanket

News

Time flies

News

Deep-diving seals are quick-change champions

News

Engineered tumour

News

Nuclear captain is free at last

News

Regaining control

News

Cultured males

News

Fresher waters

News

Dredged up

News

Vaccine first

News

Technology

Net on the couch

News

Judgment day for deep impacts

News

Deaf, not dumb

News

Tie me automaton down, sport

News

The bad guys are about to get smart

News

A helping hand

News

Why superfast particles keep heading our way

News

Early promise

News

Headache in orbit

News

Faulty shuttle flirts with disaster

News

Forget the shellfish

News

Battlefields

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Transgenic boom

News

Pipe dreams

News

Meet your personal tour guide

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Dependence Day

News

Technology

Flying squad

News

Technology

Sax maniac

News

Technology

That full feeling

News

Here we grow again

News

Now we can start to mend the body clock

News

Insatiable appetites

News

Green fertiliser

News

Cancer spotter

News

Sharpening up

News

Sleep easy

News

That sinking feeling

News

Note of discord

News

Poisoned seals

News

Fighting back

News

Opinion

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The ultimate screen shaver

THE usual way scientists tell the world that they've done something clever is to publish a paper. Liming Dai and his colleagues at the CSIRO Division of Molecular Science in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton had a better idea: they sent out Christmas cards. On their card was a micrograph of a molecule that looked …

Opinion

Looking good

Opinion

Washington diary

Opinion

Irresistible . . .

Opinion

Features

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Making a splash

NEXT time you shed your everyday clothes and don your swimming costume, give a thought to the place you are about to enter. Once you're over the thrill of cold water rising past your thighs, look at the pool around you. Why are people there behaving in the way they are? How did the pool …

Features

Rocket salad

Features

Ride the fireball

Features

Geroff my tail!

Features

Love sick

Features

Unusual suspects

Features

Dazzling carrots

Features

Seriously cool

Features

Burnt offerings

Features

Life

How was it for her?

Features

More

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.

No boundaries

Or if you are in London visit the Science Museum, where artist-in-residence Martha Fleming has gleaned wonderful objects from throughout the collections. Her sources range from objects on display, to unseen treasures, filing cards and photographs. She presents them in new and extraordinary ways in Atomism & Animism. Looked at closely, a case of books …

Books & Arts

Cracking Cleopatra

Books & Arts

Spacestruck

Books & Arts

Seas of ignorance

Books & Arts

In deep waters

Books & Arts

Unexpected bounty

Books & Arts

Shifting sands

Books & Arts

Shores of perception

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Bestsellers from California

Books & Arts

Go green

Books & Arts

Past masters

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK is puzzled by the Australian Federal Police's choice of mascot. According to the website for the AFP's eponymous quarterly magazine, the platypus represents "the diverse requirements placed upon members in the execution of their duty". Among the reasons cited for choosing this particular role model are its tirelessness in its daily explorations, its knack …

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