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5 January 2002

Issue 2324

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Your secret's safe

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Fields of dreams

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Multiple choice

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Wishing well

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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.

Boys to the right

A safe way to separate male from female-producing sperm has been discovered by Ian Cumming of the University of Bristol (GB 2 360 360). He says today's cell-sorting methods risk genetic damage by using fluorescent dyes to make the larger sperm, which contain an X chromosome, look brighter than smaller Y-bearing cells. Instead, he proposes …

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Rain stopped play

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Soup up a satellite

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Hellooooo baaay-beee

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Fight the flab, turn off the fat cells

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Nelly and her tools

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Skinny squid

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Work stress

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Sponge it up

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Twinkling planet

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Deep space twine

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This is your song

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The filthy rich

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Shhh!

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Eat me, I'm not mad

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Blame it on the father

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The wasteland

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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.

On a learning curve

The Creation of the Future by Frank Rhodes, Cornell University Press, $29.95, ISBN 080143937X WHAT has been society's most significant creation in the past thousand years? The university, says Frank Rhodes. With that supremely confident statement, this Cornell University emeritus president begins his comprehensive review of the future of American research universities. They are, he …

Opinion

Numbers with altitude

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

Brokers of the bomb

Opinion

Squeeze that lemon

Opinion

Man of stone

Opinion

Pelicans' revenge

Opinion

Business of nature

Opinion

Bill's excellent adventure

Opinion

Editorial : Supercow - Has biotech found its killer ap in prion-free cattle?

Opinion

Features

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Your secret's safe

MICHAEL RABIN might be in for trouble. A Harvard professor of computer science, he is building a secret code machine, an Enigma for the 21st century. But this is better than Enigma. This time, there's no hope for anyone who might want to break the code's ciphers, even if they get hold of the key. …

Features

Fields of dreams

Features

Multiple choice

Features

Wishing well

Features

Regulars

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The Last Word

Pipe dreams Question : During a conversation about playing the bagpipes at high altitude, I wondered what would happen to the sound of the bagpipes if they were played in the helium/oxygen mix used by deep sea divers, which distorts speech. Would the double reed chanter (the output part of the bagpipe that consists of …

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