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7 June 2003

Issue 2398

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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.

Face to face with Seianti

Features
Glitch!

Glitch!

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The new polio?

Features
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A game of chance

Features
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Replumbing the planet

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Table of contents

News

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.

Life's laundry

LIKE those old clothes at the back of your wardrobe, genetic junk can accumulate at the beginnings of genes because cells don't get around to throwing it away. Researchers in Denmark used genomic databases to examine how junk DNA sequences known as introns are distributed in 18 different organisms. After genes are copied into RNA, …

News

How harmless bugs can become killers

News

Goodbye net gridlock

News

Dengue may stay one step ahead

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We hear that…

News

And also…

News

First life made light work of solar radiation

News

Saturn switches

News

Cut the clicks

News

The day dark energy conquered the universe

News

Twisted secrets of gamma-ray bursts

News

How stealthy insects outsmart their foe

News

It's raining again

News

Cure for deafness comes a step closer

News

Weedkilling robots slash the need for herbicides

News

The smallest city in the world?

News

Technology

Gel quells dental hell

News

Technology

Cellphones ring for rescue

News

Technology

Puppies watch the pounds

News

Australia's quake-ridden past is uncovered

News

Fresh blow for gene treatments as safety of a second virus is questioned

News

SARS

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Indoor pools blamed for asthma epidemic

News

Will Abel prize for maths rival the Nobels?

News

Rising moon dated

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Ballistic foam test supports wing damage theory in Columbia inquiry

News

Europe's answer to GPS irks Pentagon

News

Solar power set for take-off

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Eye can see better when it's noisy

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It's not always child abuse

News

Horse cloners bet racing ban won't last long

News

Is run-off wrecking the reef?

News

Soundbites

News

Heat will soar as haze fades

News

Dispatches

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Escaped farm salmon threaten native species

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

AS A frequent flyer between Edinburgh and London, I was concerned to read about research into the loss of Swissair flight 111 off Nova Scotia in 1998. The plane was downed by an electrial fire, related, it seems, to the in-flight entertainment wiring system (Â鶹´«Ã½, 19 April, p 7) . John Spellar, the UK …

Opinion

The word 7,730,000

Opinion

Rough justice

Opinion

Don't die of apathy

Opinion

The madness of the megawater engineers

Opinion

A question of proof

Opinion

Features

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Face to face with Seianti

Meet Seianti. Her nose is rather prettier than it should be. Her mouth is a little smaller and more girlish. She has shed a few years – and at least one double chin. But although the sculptor who shaped this face from terracotta made a few flattering improvements, he captured Seianti's likeness remarkably well. This …

Features

Glitch!

Features

The new polio?

Features

A game of chance

Features

Replumbing the planet

Features

More

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.

Environment

Ahead of the field

"WHEN people hear I work for the US Department of Agriculture, they think I must be doing some kind of meat inspection," says Rob Mandrell. Of course, inspection plays a part in the USDA's work, but what Mandrell does could hardly be more different. He is one of some 2000 scientists who work for the …

Careers

A lick of paint

Books & Arts

Big brains, big belly

Books & Arts

From brain to built

Books & Arts

Shopping bag of books

Books & Arts

The Big Splat: How our Moon came to be by Dana Mackenzie

Books & Arts

Father of Big Blue

Books & Arts

Old but good

Books & Arts

Animal dreams

Books & Arts

It's a kind of magic

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WHAT has happened to Britain's special relationship with the US? When a colleague tried to email a friend in Texas, his message was blocked and he got this back from the server: "Received: 557 Your IP address is from a blacklisted country. Disconnecting." LAST week we reported how scammers have started posing as relatives of …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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