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19 July 2003

Issue 2404

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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.

Dying to go home

Features
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I, computer

Features
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Fruits of the forest

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Taming nature's numbers

Features
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Behind the mask

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Table of contents

News

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Mouse that healed

MICE have been genetically modified to have skin that heals faster than usual. Yuichi Oike and his team at Keio University in Tokyo have engineered mice whose keratinocyte cells make extra quantities of a newly discovered protein called angiopoietin-related growth factor (AGF). AGF was discovered in mouse liver cells, but when produced by skin cells …

News

Enter Methuselah

News

Old faithfuls

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Sushi vaccine

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Is cadmium a gender bender?

News

Ovulation revolution

News

Will troops drink water from vehicle exhausts?

News

We hear that…

News

Soft-shelled crabs get all pumped up

News

Pollution test takes aim at stale ales

News

Technology

Shark shocker

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Technology

Inspiral dressing

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Dead in the water

News

We're off the hook over El Niño

News

Life

Safe gene test for mums to be

News

Life

DIY approach to drug discovery

News

Bright future for the low-power bulb

News

Condemned to a life of depression?

News

Can masturbating each day keep the doctor away?

News

Technology

Keep dabs on your mobile

News

How not to give steel the creeps

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Atlantis wing breach 'irrelevant'

News

Space map plots vanishing forests

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Frequent flyers needn't worry about getting cancer from cosmic rays

News

Neem extracts linked to genetic abnormalities

News

Dispatches

News

Soundbites

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Experts can't agree on internal radiation risk

News

Humans

Mutiny over the bounty

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South Aral 'gone in 15 years'

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Test confirms foam downed Columbia

News

UK planned nuke landmines

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

ENGINEERS are getting closer to developing safe, low-pressure hydrogen tanks for the next generation of electric cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells (Â鶹´«Ã½, 24 May, p 18) . David Jamieson, the Department for Transport's clean fuels minister, agrees that hydrogen storage is still a major challenge. The only near-commercial methods for carrying hydrogen on …

Opinion

Out of Africa

Opinion

Risky business

Opinion

Get tough

Opinion

Features

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Dying to go home

At first, the young man just seemed miserable. Like any student in a strange town, he found it hard to adjust. Basle was one of Switzerland's greatest cities. The Rhine flowed through its heart. It had a stupendous red sandstone cathedral, a famous university and plenty of distractions for a young man. There was nothing …

Features

I, computer

Features

Fruits of the forest

Features

Taming nature's numbers

Features

Behind the mask

Features

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Isaac Newton by James Gleick

Isaac Newton by James Gleick, Fourth Estate/Pantheon, £15/$ 22.95, ISBN 0007163177/0375422331 Reviewed by Graham Farmelo ISAAC Newton cuts a unique figure in history – a pre-eminent scientific genius and, to modern sensibilities, a pre-eminent embarrassment. It is not easy for us to understand what led him to write his million words of alchemical hokum, nor …

Books & Arts

Vanity, vanity

Books & Arts

A mesmerising tale

Books & Arts

Constant companion

Books & Arts

Back to the future

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Berkeley

Books & Arts

Making start-ups sustainable

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK recently came across the Going Underground website – the "fun London Underground guide" at www.going-underground.com . As we regularly travel on the tube, we particularly enjoyed the page of quotes from tube drivers and station announcers. Some show their sweet-natured and thoughtful side. At Leyton station (where a train was stationary despite a green …

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