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31 May 2003

Issue 2397

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Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Arsonist by appointment

Features
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Death and destruction

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Uncharted territory

Features
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The antiproton cure

Features
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The facts of life

Features

Table of contents

News

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Space

Origin of planets remains elusive

PLANETS either form very rarely, or the prevailing model of how they form is wrong, say researchers who have been studying the dusty discs from which they are born. Their results exacerbate a longstanding quandary. The theory is that small particles in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a star gradually collect together due …

News

Space

Conference round-up

News

How infected mozzies live la dolce vita

News

Learning to talk…

News

…and walk

News

Enter the seven dwarfs

News

Flutter-free lifestyles

News

Safe from smallpox

News

Space

Universe comes unstuck

News

Gloves off in war on sharps

News

We hear that…

News

Technology

Honey, I shocked the bees

News

Technology

Its a wrap, folks

News

Technology

Medicinal wonder-wand

News

The tortoise is dead, long live the tortoise

News

Mimicry turns computers into everyone's best mate

News

Molecular scissors make their point

News

The thermal history of life is revealed

News

Everest's rocks reveal their secrets

News

Dispatches

News

Don't read this if you are one of life's worriers

News

Soundbites

News

An eye for gaming

News

The Geiger counter within us

News

Coated implants protect against scanner dangers

News

Back to their roots

News

BSE crosses the Atlantic

News

America's home-grown radio revolution stalls

News

Name change fails to mollify critics of anti-terror plan

News

Iraq to get digital replicas

News

Vehicle fumes increase asthma risk in children

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

A RATIONAL observer might conclude that President George Bush will not be best remembered for his efforts to protect the environment. Rather, it will be as the man who favoured drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as a leader who refused to support the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and …

Opinion

The word sinkhole

Opinion

The longest journey

Opinion

Enslaved by free trade

Opinion

Whose bones are they?

Opinion

It's mad not to come clean on BSE

Opinion

Features

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Arsonist by appointment

London has had not one Great Fire, but many. The fire of 1212 exacted an appalling death toll of 3000; the famous conflagration of 1666 killed only six. For this dramatic reduction in mortality, Londoners could thank centuries of increasingly strict building codes – which, if they did not save most of the city, at …

Features

Death and destruction

Features

Uncharted territory

Features

The antiproton cure

Features

The facts of life

Features

More

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First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane by T. A. Heppenheimer and other booksÂ…

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the invention of the airplane by T. A. Heppenheimer, John Wiley, £19.99/$30, ISBN 0471401242 Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the invention of flight by Paul Hoffman, Hyperion, £24.95, ISBN 0786866594 OF ALL the inventions that transformed the 20th century, none is more visible than the airplane. It dominates …

Books & Arts

Venturing out

Careers

The Universe: 365 Days by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

Books & Arts

Paul Nurse

Books & Arts

Trevor Pinch

Books & Arts

Hail, Marie

Books & Arts

A cow on the roof

Books & Arts

Don't let the numbers get you down

Books & Arts

Garage Kubrick

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ENHANCED airport security has created some interesting problems for geologists, palaeontologists and other scientists who do fieldwork. Knowing the tender loving care that baggage handlers customarily lavish on checked luggage, they prefer to carry vital specimens with them in the cabin. According to the vertebrate palaeontology mailing list, one palaeontologist had to persuade security personnel …

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