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19 April 2003

Issue 2391

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Killing an asteroid softly

Killing an asteroid softly

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Fires of the apocalypse

Fires of the apocalypse

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Clock of ages

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Taming the heavens

Taming the heavens

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News

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Mussels give muscle

A VERY sticky glue could paradoxically help prevent bacteria and blood clots clinging to implants such as catheters. Bare metal implants are usually covered with a non-stick layer to ward off clots and infections. But glues used to attach these coatings aren't water-resistant and often degrade. Different glues are also required depending on the metal …

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Earliest stars

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Origins of malaria

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Stem cells cure MS mice

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Physics

Super-cold atoms mimic early Universe

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Physics

Instant of success for fusion on a shoestring

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Literary study links gender to style

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We hear that…

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Physics

First results on gravity waves

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Technology

Weighing up the case

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Bendy nanotubes do the twist with target proteins

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Tellurium crystal reveals its secret under pressure

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No need to neuter?

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First and only edition of the book of life

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Botulinum toxin soothes chronic pain

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Soil bacterium targets tumours

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Slow farewell twixt man and ape

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Girls like a wider view

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Technology

One for the price of two

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Technology

Flat-out drug discovery

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Simulation solves mystery of flight downed by cockpit fire

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Cave art date splits critics

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US wolves left out in the cold

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Dispatches

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Netherlands' chicken cull tries to stop bird flu virus in its tracks

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NASA model not up to the job

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Fashion firm denies plan to track customers

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Waves of destruction

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You don't need a 3G phone to get video

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Oldest image of god in Americas found

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Depleted uranium casts a shadow over peace in Iraq

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

I'M ALWAYS saddened when significant exchanges in the House of Commons go unreported by the national press. Take, for example, Jack Cunningham's recent intervention, when Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, announced the government's important White Paper on energy. Cunningham, who is MP for Copeland, in Cumbria, welcomed the policy statement and said he …

Opinion

Powers to the people

Opinion

The word Beacon Valley

Opinion

Set them free

Opinion

Before the dust settles

Opinion

Rein in the extremists

Opinion

Features

Killing an asteroid softly

Killing an asteroid softly

THANKS to Hollywood, we already know what to do if an asteroid big enough to wipe out life on Earth is spotted coming our way. Haul out our surplus nuclear weapons and get Bruce Willis on the phone. But there's a catch. In the past year, asteroid researchers have been warning that it would be …

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Fires of the apocalypse

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Clock of ages

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Taming the heavens

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Wealth of invention

WHEN it comes to translating basic research into industrial success, few nations can match Germany. Since the 1940s, the nation's vast industrial base has been fed with a constant stream of new ideas and expertise from science. And though German prosperity has faltered over the past decade because of the huge cost of unifying east …

Careers

It's a bug's life

Books & Arts

One culture

Books & Arts

Hang on in, bats

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Group minds

Books & Arts

Gregory Stock

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Andrew Knoll

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Clever man

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE travel industry complains that business is bad because people are frightened their plane might be hijacked. We wonder whether airlines would make things better or worse by taking up an idea patented 30 years ago by Jack Jensen from Fort Worth, Texas, which was unearthed recently by a colleague. US patent 3841328 reveals his …

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