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12 April 2003

Issue 2390

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The furtive evolutionist

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Hot mettle

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Nuclear rockets could help land man on Mars

Nuclear rockets could help land man on Mars

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Catching the cold cosmos

Catching the cold cosmos

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Ice magic

Ice magic

Features

Table of contents

News

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Tuberculosis testing finally moves into the 21st century

IT HAS taken 100 years, but at last we have developed a quick and reliable test for tuberculosis. Researchers have struggled to find an alternative to the standard tuberculin skin test, developed a century ago by the German bacteriologist Robert Koch . It involves injecting a witch's brew of 200 or so proteins extracted from …

News

PC unzips identity of unknown composers

News

Oily grains kick-started life on Earth

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Quasar all choked up

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Radio energy to zap insect infestations

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Flashy feathers can be a fatal attraction

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Rice branches out

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Cold and calculating

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Rough sense of smell

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Felled by sap

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Strange energy

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Unique vaccine halts spread of herpes

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Sun fuels debate on climate change

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Rising rivers will wreck Bangladesh

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Worm brings death to coral

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Is this the hottest thing in superconductor research?

News

Giant squid emerges from the ocean's deep

News

We hear that…

News

Technology

Get ahead in gaming

News

Technology

Frame that smell

News

Technology

No more useless hits

News

Why every engineer needs a few strands of DNA

News

Big quake, tiny shake

News

Where did this deadly pneumonia come from?

News

Soldiers 'drunk' with fatigue

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Amorous worms reveal the effect of Chernobyl fallout on wildlife

News

Great apes plunge towards extinction

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Dispatches

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Can we contain SARS?

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Powerless to stop the spread

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

MOST MPs have witnessed the harrowing aftermath and family grief that can ensue when a smouldering cigarette causes a major fire in someone's home. This magazine recently made a persuasive case for "fire-safe" cigarettes that contain fire-resistant additives (21/28 December 2002, p 6) . When I put the idea to Melanie Johnson, the consumer minister …

Opinion

The word marine snow

Opinion

The dreamcatcher

Opinion

No way to win the peace

Opinion

Silence is fatal

Opinion

Features

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The furtive evolutionist

The year is 1765. The place is Staffordshire, in the heart of England. Horse-drawn wagons trundle along the rutted and potholed roads, carrying the pottery and crockery manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood at his factory in Burslem. Breakages are all too frequent. Appalled at these losses, Wedgwood has an ambitious idea. Why not create a smooth …

Features

Hot mettle

Features

Nuclear rockets could help land man on Mars

Features

Catching the cold cosmos

Features

Ice magic

Features

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To thine own self be true

Better Than Well by Carl Elliott, W.W. Norton, $26.95, ISBN 039305201X AT first glance, Better than Well is a critical account of how we seek to fix the human condition with "enhancement technologies". It is about Ritalin and distractibility, Prozac and shyness, skin bleaches and botox, sex-reassignment surgery and voluntary amputation. It is about the …

Books & Arts

Island of discovery

Careers

Bestsellers - Oxford

Books & Arts

Tea with byte

Books & Arts

Sweet dreams

Books & Arts

Believe or not

Books & Arts

Walking with Cavemen: Eye-to-eye with your ancestors by John Lynch and Louise Barrett

Books & Arts

Sparing Nature: The conflict between human population growth and Earth's biodiversity by Jeffrey K. McKee

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

A SIMPLE magnetic chip slipped into a trouser pocket is all it takes to boost blood flow to the genital area, improve oxygen and nutrient supply to the region, and bump up levels of sex hormones. At least, that's the claim made for the Sex-Mag in the latest glossy brochure from Home Shopping Selections. Feedback …

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