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9 August 2003

Issue 2407

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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.

Toad in the hole

Features
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.

The weather profits

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Saturday light fever

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The fat controller

Features
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.

Bring me sunshine

Features

Table of contents

News

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.

Technology

Cleaner crustacea

Fans of lobster will welcome the culinary advice of four Canadians (WO 03/053147). They say the traditional method of cooking and then freezing lobster in brine ruptures the intestines and stains the white body flesh. It also causes heavy-metal contaminants in the gut to migrate into the flesh. Their idea is to kill the lobster …

News

Smart glue could spell the end for solder

News

Silken clue to ancient spider's mastery

News

Extinctions hot up

News

Your cheatin' face

News

Stress for survival

News

Kernel of health

News

First cloned horse

News

Gel puts springiness back into old lenses

News

Software agents could tackle human genome data explosion

News

At last we may have a way to fight back against the Ebola virus

News

Technology

Wet look

News

Technology

Not-so-plain vanilla

News

Does doing the twist cause the agony of back pain?

News

Knowing you are prone to addiction could help you quit

News

We hear that…

News

A way to boost metabolism safely and shed pounds?

News

Blue beetle leads to technicolour fossils

News

Fires destroyed the only food source of giant flightless birds

News

You are what your mother ate

News

Helmet design flaw may put cyclists at risk

News

Wildcats and dingoes 'not worth protecting'

News

Dispatches

News

Turbines to get stealthy

News

Piracy threatens digitised art

News

Arsenic's fatal legacy grows

News

Technology

Are ageing US reactors safe?

News

Soundbites

News

Technology

America steels itself to take the nuclear plunge

News

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.

Space jewel hunter

Meteorites are in Bill Cassidy 's blood. After leaving the US Navy Active Reserve in 1946, he chose geology at the University of New Mexico just because it had an institute of meteoritics.Eventually he became professor of geology and planetary science at the Pittsburgh university. He started out studying impact craters, but a hunch about …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Why not just say yes?

Opinion

There's more to inheritance than genes

Opinion

How much is too much?

Opinion

Features

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.

Toad in the hole

Elemental creatures of darkness, toads have always been linked to the supernatural. Stone-like themselves, they were thought capable of surviving within solid rock. Even today, every encyclopedia of the "unexplained" offers sober accounts of entombed toads. Yet despite all the stories, there's just one tangible example. It's a mummified toad nestled within a hollow flint-and …

Features

The weather profits

Features

Saturday light fever

Features

The fat controller

Features

Bring me sunshine

Features

More

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.

Poles apart

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic by Jack Williams, Alpha, $18.95, ISBN 1592570739 Reviewed by Alison George UNSURE whether penguins or polar bears live at the North Pole? Or whether the Antarctic is at the top or bottom of the globe? Then this is the perfect book for you. This clever yet …

Books & Arts

Figure it out

Books & Arts

Spirit of the beehive

Books & Arts

Innovate and die

Books & Arts

Nanotechnology by Mark Ratner and Dan Ratner

Books & Arts

Unbuilt unbuildings

Books & Arts

Nobel woman

Books & Arts

Fizzy facts

Books & Arts

Renaissance man

Books & Arts

Sea dog of the Beagle

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

SAMSUNG has banned the use of picture phones by workers in its factories, in case someone emails a snapshot that reveals production line secrets. This has caused some amusement because one of the things these workers make is – picture phones. Over the years, Feedback has visited many factories around the world. Most of them …

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Letters

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