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26 April 2003

Issue 2392

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Technology

Bright new world

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Hotter than zero

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Holy stones

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Quick fix

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Wipeout: when life nearly died

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Table of contents

News

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We hear that…

Two out of five people attending the ancient world's first indoor theatre had to crane their necks to get a glimpse of the stage. Richard Beacham's team in the School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick designed a virtual reconstruction of the 2400-year-old Odeon of Pericles in Athens . They found many in …

News

How a sweeter kind of yeast will make hundreds of drugs more effective

News

Stroke risk linked to bacterial infection

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Memory metal

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Radical coffee therapy

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Wine bacteria get electric punch drunk

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Earth

Conference Round-up

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Technology

Feeling better already

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Technology

Clubbers vote for the vibe

News

Technology

Rioters get an airing

News

Earth

Here comes the rain…

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Virus beats food bug

News

Lead may be damaging the intelligence of millions of children worldwide

News

Laser beams get fluids flowing

News

Dogs in the dock over debilitating worm

News

Rotor eases Hercules' tasks

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Magic numbers herald new wave of superalloys

News

Virgin birth method could found stem cell dynasties

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Humans

A struggle for Eden

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Genes reveal signs of ice age life

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Dispatches

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1930s idea 'extends range of rovers'

News

The race to find a vaccine

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Short sharp shock awaits trespassers

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Poincaré solved?

News

Soundbites

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Tokyo's cracked reactors may power up again

News

This film will self-destruct in one year

News

Stars' last gasp

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Careful swinger

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Opinion

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Where progress is a lost cause

AS AMERICAN troops closed in on Baghdad, Iraq's information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, turned the denial of reality into a fine art. But even he would have been hard pushed to explain away something the conflict in his country has clearly demonstrated: the gigantic technology gap between the Arab world and the West. The war …

Opinion

Variations on a theme

Opinion

A vaccine against SARS will not be enough

Opinion

Humans

Washington diary

Opinion

The word Haptics

Opinion

Mapping the criminal mind

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Bright new world

THOMAS EBBESEN holds a piece of gold foil up to the light and looks through it. Made 14 years ago by technicians at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey – where Ebbesen was working at the time – at first glance the foil looks unremarkable. Peer at it under an electron microscope, though, …

Features

Hotter than zero

Features

Holy stones

Features

Quick fix

Features

Wipeout: when life nearly died

Features

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Get on the brain train

IT'S OFFICIAL. The European Union is losing some of its best brains in science and technology to the US at an alarming rate. The latest figures make sombre reading. According to a report published last month by the European Commission, three-quarters of graduates who go to the US to study for PhDs prefer to stay …

Careers

Bestsellers - Cambridge

Books & Arts

Futures near perfect

Books & Arts

Roberta and the Jester

Books & Arts

Where is Everybody? Fifty solutions to Fermi's paradox by Stephen Webb

Books & Arts

Ladder of life

Books & Arts

Cry Freedom

Books & Arts

Texting 'bout a revolution

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE STARTED to huff and puff with righteous indignation when we came across a site called www.napalm.net . The site's creator claims to have had official clearance to purchase 2¼ tonnes of weapons-grade napalm, which he now offers for sale in individually packaged, "attractive, displayable canisters", each holding a litre of liquid. Under "Safety Information" …

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