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20 July 2002 issue

This week's edition of New Scientist Magazine

 

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News

 

Editorial

 

Bioterrorism and the virus-makers: How alarmed should we be?

 

 

This Week

Creating viruses from scratch p6
Should deadly genomes stay secret? p7
Boost for test ban treaty p8
How to get replies to your emails p9
Cellphones trap drug dealers p9
Post-mortem on foot and mouth p10
No return for Chagos islanders p12

 

Special Report

Are alternatives finally taking off? p14

 

Frontiers

Hype and hope at AIDS conference p16
Privacy threat from Hollywood p17
Darwinian boost for public speakers p18
Logic helps children with autism p19
Baseball pundits get tactics wrong p19
Ice ages caused by Milky Way p20
Stem cells could be key to long life p20
God does play dice p21

 

Conference Report: Bioastronomy

Search for alien intelligence p22
Super-volcanoes threaten civilisation p23
Amino acid found in space p23

 

In brief

 

 

Features

 

COVER STORY: Strange attraction
In the dark beyond the planets, two space probes are gripped by a mysterious force. Are we ready for the truth, asks Marcus Chown

 

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Ready for your close-up?

Working out what someone looks like from only a DNA sample is no longer science fiction. You'd be surprised what forensics experts can already do, says Clare Wilson

 

Mamma mia

Italian women are terrifying demographers. If other women around the world copy their behaviour, we could be on the brink of a population crash. Fred Pearce is already worried

 

Coming up trumps

With card hustlers waiting to pounce, casinos need a mathematician on their team, says Erica Klarreich. And a little magic doesn't hurt, either

 

 

Regulars

 

 

Interview

Unofficial channels Biologist Rod MacKinnon has achieved what many colleagues seriously doubted was possible. Putting his reputation on the line, he sought out new ways of uncovering the complexities of the vital structures that are responsible for all the electrical activity in our bodies. He is now tipped to win a Nobel prize for his work. Duncan Graham-Rowe asked him how he did it

 

 

Letters

The measles debate; Farm facts; A patent too far; Chernobyl's legacy; Ssssssh!; Seminal theory; Political contradictions; Island refuge; Fighting fire; Bound to home; Designing AI robots; Royal Free hysteria?; Tsetse priorities; For the record

 

Comment & Analysis

Reproductive cloning has given bioethicists plenty to pontificate about, but is it really that much of a problem, asks Daniel S. Greenberg

 

Grapevine

The abyssal plains should rank alongside the Himalayas and the Grand Canyon as a wonder of the world, if only we could get to visit them

 

Politics

Westminster Diary: can technology help save the world's forests and endangered wildlife?

 

Enigma

 

Books

The Glass Bathyscaphe by Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin

 

How Long is a Piece of String? by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham

 

Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics by Mary Brück

 

Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A biography by Ian Graham

 

Smoke-Filled Rooms: A postmortem on the tobacco deal by W. Kip Viscusi

 

Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection by Rose E. Frisch

 

 

Feedback

Snacks by email; Obese houseflies; Cosmetic surgery at the butcher; Age unknown; Fast car to nowhere; Power-cut message; Yucky bugs;

 

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