Issue 2103 | Magazine cover date: 11 October 1997

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11 October 1997

Issue 2103

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Features

Blessed is the weak

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Blustery outlook

Opinion

Editorial : On the edge

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Blessed is the weak

Features

Radiation roulette

Features

Blowing hot and cold

Features

On a wing and a vortex

Features

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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

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

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

Features

Blowing hot and cold

Features

On a wing and a vortex

Features

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 …

Forum

Antipodes : End of the road?

Forum

Student books : Bestsellers from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : Running on empty

Forum

Forum : Damage limitation in the deep

Forum

Student books : The brothers Bernoulli

Books & Arts

Student books : Herbiphile

Books & Arts

Student books : Mechanics ancient and modern

Books & Arts

Student books : Agenda setter

Books & Arts

Student books : The whole story

Books & Arts

Student books : House of magic

Books & Arts

Student books : Piece of pi

Books & Arts

Student books : Plant life

Books & Arts

Student books : Earth's economics

Books & Arts

Student books : Come back, Aesop

Books & Arts

Student books : A drop of the hard stuff

Books & Arts

Student books : Digging Scotland

Books & Arts

Student books : Life and the ocean wave

Books & Arts

Student books : More authorities

Books & Arts

Student books : Rocks on record

Books & Arts

Student books : Holding hands

Books & Arts

Student books : No gold fingers

Books & Arts

Student books : Past authorities

Books & Arts

Regulars

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 …

Regulars

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This week's magazine

11 October 1997

On the cover

Blessed is the weak

Radiation roulette

Blowing hot and cold

On a wing and a vortex

Table of contents

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Blustery outlook

No explanation

Sulphurous ships

Galactic record

Alice beams up `entangled' photon

Hunt the nectar

Friendly faces

Rabbit killers

Let's talk about sex

This time it's goodbye forever

What goes up…

The zinging detector

Floppy discs get the picture

Born wheezers

Return of the wee trees

Hitting back at superpests

Faking it

Dummy lullaby

This car's got bottle

Fly-by-wire

El Niño is innocent for once

For your ears only

The bigger the better

First-ever designer protein fits like a glove

Small, dark and macho

The best bits

Light fantastic

Ugly bugs make drugs

AIDS drug cocktails fail in the real world

One-way wires

Scorched earth

Nobel splits top brains

Tight fit

The hole truth

Drilling for gravity

Flashing lights betray intruders

Better out than in

Sue is sold

Beet vandals

Wrong orbit

Just hot air?

Vaccine failure

Baked Alaska

Secrets of a stealthy killer

Chromosome lost

Stellar wraith

Jobs for the ants

Martian canyon

Breathing space

Opinion

Editorial : On the edge

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

Features

Blessed is the weak

Radiation roulette

Blowing hot and cold

On a wing and a vortex

More

Thistle diary :

Antipodes : End of the road?

Student books : Bestsellers from Oxford

Forum : Running on empty

Forum : Damage limitation in the deep

Student books : The brothers Bernoulli

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