Issue 2182 | Magazine cover date: 17 April 1999

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17 April 1999

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Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars

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Silicon needles won't hurt a bit

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Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars

Features

The Emperor's Eggs

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Great rivers of ice!

Features

Kingdom of the krill

Features

Subzero

Features

Meteorite heaven

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Silicon needles won't hurt a bit

A PAINLESS hypodermic needle could be one of the first surgical tools made using a technique borrowed from computer chip makers. The needle is one of several surgical devices built by Amit Lal of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lal predicts that by using extremely sharp instruments that vibrate at ultrasonic frequencies it will …

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Seeing the light

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Inflammation may cause cerebral palsy

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A robot in the right vein

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Go for it

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Activists up the ante

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No reprieve for America's antibody mice

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Take heart

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It's a deal

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Unpalatable truths

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Technology

Crime and punishment

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Family way

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Burning tarmac

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Netman cometh

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The big thaw

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New flu

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Phone probe

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Advisers axed

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Heavenly twins

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Can regular sex ward off colds and flu?

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Back to basics

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Permanent mark

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Going loopy

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Moaning mould

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Dangerous din

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I forget

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Far, far away

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Drink up

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Escape artists

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Saving our bacon

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Bumper blooms left high and dry

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Hunger zones

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Fragrant threat

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Gone with the wind

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Opinion

Hot property

NEXT time you go to a party, try starting a conversation on the urgent need for public ownership of the intellectual property rights to single nucleotide polymorphism maps. Within seconds, you'll find yourself talking to the wallpaper. Now let's rerun the experiment. Argue boldly that commercial timber companies should have access to national parks or, …

Opinion

Features

Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars

IT IS a tortured landscape of ice towers, pinnacles and hollows that stretches to the end of a long thin valley. On either side, beyond the edges of the ice, brown valley walls rise up to form jagged ridges capped with snow. In fact, everything we can see is brown or white – a monochrome …

Features

The Emperor's Eggs

Features

Great rivers of ice!

Features

Kingdom of the krill

Features

Subzero

Features

Meteorite heaven

Features

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WHEN it comes to catching criminals, few things are likely to prove more effective than a national DNA database. Paul Boateng, the Home Office minister, told MPs that the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Forensic Science Service are reviewing the development of the database. Boateng went on to say that on wider issues …

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Antarctic witness

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Carson's comeback

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Cut off their tails

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COMPUTER problems can drive the most mild mannered of us to distraction. So Feedback isn't at all surprised to learn that physical abuse of hardware is a widespread phenomenon. According to a survey by Concord Communications of Marlboro, Massachusetts, a chilling 83 per cent of network managers have dealt with computer users whose technical problems …

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This week's magazine

17 April 1999

On the cover

Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars

The Emperor's Eggs

Great rivers of ice!

Kingdom of the krill

Subzero

Meteorite heaven

Table of contents

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Silicon needles won't hurt a bit

Friend or foe?

No entry

I know you're looking…

Seeing the light

Inflammation may cause cerebral palsy

A robot in the right vein

Go for it

Activists up the ante

No reprieve for America's antibody mice

Take heart

It's a deal

Unpalatable truths

Technology

Crime and punishment

Family way

Burning tarmac

Netman cometh

The big thaw

New flu

Phone probe

Advisers axed

Heavenly twins

Can regular sex ward off colds and flu?

Back to basics

Technology

Permanent mark

Technology

Sky-high gambling

Technology

Phone-free zone

Blind bombing

Going loopy

Bottled up

Vive la difference

Moaning mould

Supervaccine

Dangerous din

I forget

Far, far away

Drink up

Escape artists

Saving our bacon

Bumper blooms left high and dry

Hunger zones

Fragrant threat

Gone with the wind

Opinion

Hot property

Features

Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars

The Emperor's Eggs

Great rivers of ice!

Kingdom of the krill

Subzero

Meteorite heaven

More

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Sabotage threat delays trials

Beware flying mud!

Spit 'n' polish

Having a ball

Mission impossible

Antarctic witness

Tame brain

Carson's comeback

Cut off their tails

Quantum tools

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