Issue 2135 | Magazine cover date: 23 May 1998

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23 May 1998

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Mice see red for the first time

SOME lab mice are enjoying life in technicolour thanks to genetic engineering. While normal mice can perceive ultraviolet light and most of the colours we can see, they cannot see red. To extend their visual range, Michael Crognale and Samir Deeb at the University of Washington in Seattle gave a group of mice the gene …

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Getting warm

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Deadly reputation

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A bigger picture

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Cleanup deal

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Nuclear revamp

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Home alone

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Real men need oestrogen

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Mistaken identity

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Popeye power for miniature machines

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Boxed in

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Hunting the mole

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False security

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Take a pinch of bacteria…

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Return to the Moon

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Dashed hopes

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Warning: cannibalism is bad for your health

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Sporty types

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Lead in the womb

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On your marks …

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Opinion

Only way is up

IN JULY, the WHO finally gets its new director-general, Gro Harlem Brundtland. After a decade in which the UN organisation has seriously lost the plot, Norway's former prime minister will have her work cut out if she is to help it regain both authority and political clout. For more than two decades, the WHO has …

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"BESIDES taking electronic pictures, what else is an imaging chip useful for?" asks Larry O'Gorman. The answer is surprising and revolutionary. Today, imaging chips give computers a sense of vision. But with a few modifications these chips can add another dimension to a computer's sensory repertoire: touch. With this extra sense computers will be able …

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Universal body builder

WE ARE all used to the idea that structures like buildings and boats are made of materials strengthened by fibres—take reinforced concrete and fibreglass for example. But it's easy to forget that nature had the idea first, and without fibres life itself would literally be a complete flop. While plants rely on cellulose—a fibrous carbohydrate—to …

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Feedback

IN THIS and next week's columns, you will discover how boffins in California choose a mate, what not to wear at a beach party, and how Feedback fulfilled a lifelong ambition to become a Mexican. The responsibility for these and other revelations lies with the heady air of San Francisco, where Feedback has been spending …

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This week's magazine

23 May 1998

On the cover

Whose finger on the button?

Mind

Call it quits: Explaining the sunk-cost fallacy

All-out war on the alien invader

Hidden truths

Table of contents

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Mice see red for the first time

Fishy mystery

Good timing

Burster breakthrough

The cancer threat that seeps into our homes

All in vein

Getting warm

Deadly reputation

A bigger picture

Cleanup deal

Nuclear revamp

Home alone

Real men need oestrogen

Mistaken identity

Popeye power for miniature machines

Boxed in

Smart suits

Technology

Summer in the trenches

Technology

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Technology

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Technology

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Havens of peace

Unusual suspects

You're so veiny

Waxing lyrical

Boxed in

Hunting the mole

Anatomy of a medical maverick

Off target

Star crossed

False security

What's killing California's sea otters?

Technology

Double bubble

Technology

Spinning plates

Free for all

Take a pinch of bacteria…

Technology

Baby talk

Killing fields

Spent force

Malaria targeted

Return to the Moon

Nuclear inquisition

Dashed hopes

Warning: cannibalism is bad for your health

Sporty types

Lead in the womb

On your marks …

Opinion

Only way is up

Murderers have rights too

Features

Whose finger on the button?

Mind

Call it quits: Explaining the sunk-cost fallacy

All-out war on the alien invader

Hidden truths

More

Universal body builder

Government support for science falters

Speaking of stars

Been there

The science trade

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