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21 June 2003

Issue 2400

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Technology

Saved from the bell

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Fraction man

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A greyer shade of green

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In the beginning was the Rule

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Is migraine all in the mind?

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News

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Toxin link to diabetes

A LINK between diet during pregnancy and diabetes in the offspring has turned up in a study of a strain of mice prone to the disease. All the female offspring of pregnant mice fed water laced with bafilomycin, a toxin produced by bacteria that sometimes infect potatoes, developed type 1 diabetes by 30 weeks old. …

News

Mercury showers

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Could clever meters spell the end for deafening TV ads?

News

How dolphins vary the volume to nab their prey

News

Nuclei shoved into unwilling marriage

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We hear that…

News

Modified grass snuffs out sneezes

News

HIV is the hybrid of two monkey viruses

News

Lasers shine a light on the workings of living nerves

News

Generate and sell your own electricity

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Need a new bone? We'll print it for you

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Sweet arteries stay clearer

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Bendy browsers will kick mice into touch

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Living medicines make their debut

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Crater find backs falling star legend

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Off with its head

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Power chords without the howl

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From Ashley to Zoe, it's name drift at work

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Super-fast star

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Technology

Cut the crosstalk

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Technology

Ticked off

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Technology

Skin like an old heel?

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Expect an epic storm of stardust

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Little monster feeds bigger monster

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Environment

Europe's deep corals are facing devastation

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Underground lab fills with water

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Decoding the Ys and wherefores of males

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Drug smooths the way to healing

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'Kitchen physics' haunts NASA inquiry

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Slow response to monkeypox reveals glaring gap in bioterror defences

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Anti-nanotech campaigners declare war on tiny things

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Soundbites

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Defining moment for saving whales

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Dispatches

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Toxic metal clue to autism

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

A SCOTTISH farm in my constituency had the dubious honour of being the source of the world's first major milk-borne epidemic of Escherichia coli O157 in the mid-1990s. Current thinking is that this particularly nasty form of food poisoning can be spread by contact with animal faeces (Â鶹´«Ã½, 21 September 2002, p 11) . …

Opinion

The word simpático

Opinion

How do I know who you are?

Opinion

Trials and errors

Opinion

Hunt the whales to save the whales

Opinion

A need to know

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Saved from the bell

On 29 August 1782, the Royal George was anchored off Portsmouth in the English Channel. The Navy's pride and joy was a hive of activity as the crew readied the ship for departure. A few moments later it was at the bottom of the sea. Fifty years on, the wreck had become a hazard to …

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Fraction man

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A greyer shade of green

Features

In the beginning was the Rule

Features

Is migraine all in the mind?

Features

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Building biotech bridges

ONLY one hub of high-tech activity flourishes across national borders – the Medicon Valley biotech cluster in Scandinavia. But when it comes to attracting an international blend of scientists to this region, success is harder to guarantee. Companies in the Medicon Valley cluster, which stretches from the Danish capital of Copenhagen across the south-western toe …

Careers

Bestsellers - London

Books & Arts

Smile, and the whole world smiles with you

Books & Arts

Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the dream of human life extension by Stephen Hall

Books & Arts

The Usborne Internet-linked Introduction to Genes and DNA by Anna Claybourne

Books & Arts

SF overloaded

Books & Arts

Is it true, gravity sucks?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

COSMETICS manufacturers are keen to appear cutting edge, and often blind consumers with scientific jargon. But buzzwords like "nanocapsules" – currently one of their favourites – could be their undoing. Scare stories about nanotechnology turning the world to "grey goo" have led Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England, to call for new …

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