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27 January 1996

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Virtually real, really sick

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Oh Lucky Day!

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Living with the gene genie
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Virtually real, really sick

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Faith, hope and rocketry

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Unwisdom of the Solomons

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Sugaring the pill

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Oh Lucky Day!

ENIGMA 859 I have a lucky number. When the numbers of a date add up to the square of my luck numder I call that a "lucky day". (For example, if my lucky number were 11 then 24/3/94 would be a lucky day since 24 + 3 + 94 = 121.) I especially like the …

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Drivers see red

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Light fantastic

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BBC catches TV firms on the hop

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Words and pictures

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Heavy weather

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Running on algae

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Technology

The cool way to destroy CFCs

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Two noses are better than one

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South America buckles under the pressure

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Hot on the trail of the Sun's bow wave

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Meet Brer Rabbit and Sister Hare

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Technology

Murdoch brings off TV patent coup

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Alien worlds boost search for life

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Technology

Netropolitan

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Technology

Laser zaps problem bacteria

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Technology

Mince meter sorts the fat and the lean

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Bio-diode could lead to superchip

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How immune cells know the enemy

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Ancient plants mark climate blip

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AIDS slip-up

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Woodlouse wins beauty contest

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Safe grazing

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Redundant stars

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Tomato teaser

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Cave find

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Can we make supersalmon safe?

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Winter of discontent blows across Antarctica

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The fifth horseman

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Explorers blaze trail for the builders

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South African army behind ivory trade

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Russia's uranium too tempting to resist

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Where have all the neutrons gone?

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Stowaway wrecks island's crops

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Something nasty in the steak tartare

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The high cost of saving life on Earth

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Probe finds Jupiter short of water

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Furry submarines embarrass Swedish navy

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Industry 'not consulted' on cash for labs

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Vitamin pill fails to fend of cancer

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Live rock is hardest on the ears

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Opinion

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.

Living with the gene genie

THE government received a genetically modified flea in the ear this week, with the publication of the latest report from its panel on sustainable development. The theme is drift and lack of strategic thinking where science and the environment meet. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the case of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Like …

Opinion

Down and out in 1996

Opinion

Features

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Virtually real, really sick

REMEMBER Lawnmower Man, the tacky Hollywood movie that tried to transport its audience into some psycho-filled virtual future? Or the hype a couple of years ago when Sega and Nintendo claimed to be on the verge of bringing virtual reality to the home? Not much has happened since. Go down to one of the large …

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Faith, hope and rocketry

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Unwisdom of the Solomons

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Sugaring the pill

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Grab the money and run

THE BEATLES' song In my life contains some memorable lines about memory and places that could well be the theme for Stargate. That's the $20-million Pentagon programme that for some twenty years employed psychics to perform remote viewing – a form of extrasensory perception, in which someone examines a photograph of, say, a person or …

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Triumph of dogma over reason

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From Troy to Tasmania

Books & Arts

Poison water

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Bestsellers from London

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I'll second that emotion

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Try, try, try again

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Invasion of the nanomachines

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An awfully big adventure

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On the move

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Beat bullying

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Atomic history

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The body at war

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Industry's disaster

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What worms?

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Collected works

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Einstein pictured

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Creative disorders

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A maths must

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Fictional history

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ALTHOUGH the technologies of fax and e-mail can completely bypass "snail mail", the Royal Mail's letter post, one of ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ's regular contributors tells us that he encourages people to continue sending him letters and press releases by the old-fashioned method. That way, he argues, it costs him nothing to read his messages, either in …

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