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28 April 2001

Issue 2288

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Biodiversity

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Devil or Angel 1 -- How do you measure up?

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Scenario 2 -- Pollution

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Devil or Angel 2 -- Is one planet enough?

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Global trends 3

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Global trends 1

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Scenario 3 -- Population

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Global trends 2

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Self-Destruct

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Scenario 1 -- Climate

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Rocky road

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King coconut

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The Immortals

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View to a thrill

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Warp speed

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News

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Beating the superbug

DOCTORS may soon have a powerful new weapon against a superbug that causes food poisoning, toxic shock and many hospital infections. Researchers in the US have found a way to block the bacterium's most devastating strategy for attack. One of the reasons why Staphylococcus aureus can be so dangerous is that many strains release "superantigens" …

News

Through the Looking Glass

News

Killer's genome reveals its vicious arsenal

News

Blind spot?

News

Moonlight sheds light on Earth's weather

News

Hide and seek

News

Blind to the big blue

News

Toxic control

News

Destiny's child

News

Flipping neutrinos keep astronomers guessing

News

Perfect skin

News

In the mood

News

Face the facts

News

Matchmakers

News

Sex, lies and monogamy

News

Back to the future

News

Veterans' nightmare

News

No cloning, please…

News

Sweet genes are made of this

News

Music to my ears

News

Hot waters

News

Sad study

News

Cows from the East

News

Hollow victories

News

Live and let diode

News

91av for the buoys

News

Way to glow

News

Microrocket will blast off into the heart of a twister

News

Little green fraudsters

News

A gimmick to dye for

News

Technology

Moist-o-meter

News

Technology

Nervous flyers

News

Technology

Spoon-bending games

News

Is our Galaxy sitting in the middle of nowhere?

News

Pretend to be brainy

News

Hanging in the air

News

Forget about the children darling, we can have more

News

Hot shots

News

Turn on the juice

News

Out of Africa

News

Up and away

News

Perfect dirtstorm

News

Brain surgery makes Mum sound like a quail

News

Coming together

News

Improving the odds

News

Opinion

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Bolt from the blue

WE KNOW all too well that the way we use a technology ultimately decides whether it will be a blessing or a curse. Genetic testing, for example, should be great for helping people to stave off disease, yet it could also stop them getting jobs and insurance. The really tricky cases, though, are the technologies …

Opinion

Let's not push our luck

Opinion

Washington Diary

Opinion

Gimme more!

Opinion

Tailing the tremors

Opinion

Features

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Biodiversity

THE best guess of biologists is that species are disappearing between 100 and 1000 times as fast as they were before Homo sapiens arrived. But our impact is different from the mass extinctions of the past. They wiped out whole groups of animals, notably the dinosaurs, whereas humans are picking off individual species. In the …

Features

Devil or Angel 1 -- How do you measure up?

Features

Scenario 2 -- Pollution

Features

Devil or Angel 2 -- Is one planet enough?

Features

Global trends 3

Features

Global trends 1

Features

Scenario 3 -- Population

Features

Global trends 2

Features

Self-Destruct

Features

Scenario 1 -- Climate

Features

Rocky road

Features

King coconut

Features

The Immortals

Features

View to a thrill

Features

Warp speed

Features

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Everything has a Price

The Search For Free Energy: A scientific tale of jealousy, genius and electricity by Keith Tutt, with a Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke; Simon & Schuster, £18.99, ISBN 0684866609 THE Croatian-American inventor Nikola Tesla was seriously weird. He soothed his head with X-rays, attempted communication with Mars and proposed broadcasting power by wireless. But however …

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More Spheres than Most

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Born to run

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Feedback

CONGRATULATIONS to reader Stu Ryder, who has inadvertently succeeded in locking two computers into an endless loop. Ryder needed to pick up e-mails sent to a former work colleague, so he arranged for any e-mails sent to his ex-colleague's computer to be automatically forwarded to her. He also set up an auto-reply on the computer …

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