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2 August 2003

Issue 2406

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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.

The body in question

Features
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Go with the flow

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Life

Once we were worms

Features
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Into the sphere of fire

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Environment

Monsters of the deep

Features

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.

Venice dragged down by force of nature

VENICE is sinking, and it is being pulled down by the tectonic plate upon which it sits. The Italian city on the coast of the Adriatic Sea is scattered across islands and riddled with canals. Waves are lapping ever higher at its buildings, partly because of global warming, which raises the water level around 4 …

News

Tune up your brain

News

Trigger for contractions

News

Big appetite

News

Radiation limits

News

Record jumper

News

Technology

Make them pay

News

Technology

Life's a bleach

News

Technology

Fan scan for safer stadia

News

Best portrait yet of our weighty world

News

Bed-wetters can't breathe easy

News

Technology

How to stop those virtual bad hair days

News

Not all mothers choose "the daddy"

News

Can a little light dusting keep dirt at bay?

News

Technology

I can't believe it's not... a bundle of motors, rubber and chemicals

News

Technology

Animation lets murder victims have final say

News

Power struggle

News

Brace yourself for the end of cheap oil

News

Can heavy oil avert an energy crisis?

News

Oceans raped of their former riches

News

Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

News

US answer to climate change is more research

News

'Safe' alternative to uranium shells

News

Soundbites

News

Sensitive prostate test bad for men

News

Dispatches

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THE world is misusing a valuable resource. According to a meeting of the World Water Forum in Kyoto (Â鶹´«Ã½, 29 March, p 5) , we are mining some of our water reserves hundreds of times faster than they can be replenished. So I asked Elliot Morley, the new environment minister with special responsibilities for …

Opinion

Long-distance learner

Opinion

On stony ground

Opinion

Weather of mass destruction

Opinion

Running dry

Opinion

Features

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The body in question

Among the many snippets of human body bottled and stored at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is one that isn't cloaked with the anonymity afforded to most anatomical specimens. Its sometime owner was this man – John Wilkes Booth, the actor whose most celebrated "performance" in a theatre was to kill a member of the …

Features

Go with the flow

Features

Life

Once we were worms

Features

Into the sphere of fire

Features

Environment

Monsters of the deep

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.

Scotland the polluted

Troublemakers by Kevin Dunion, Edinburgh University Press, £15.99, ISBN 0748617817 Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby, University of California Press, $21.95/£14.95, ISBN 0520239091 The Silver Lining: The benefits of natural disasters by Seth Reice, Princeton, $15.95/£10.95, ISBN0691113688 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald HOW big is the environment? The whole world? Or your backyard? Or, as Kevin …

Books & Arts

The word chinook

Books & Arts

Superpower

Careers

A hole with no name

Books & Arts

The lady and the quack?

Books & Arts

The outer limits

Books & Arts

Utopia under the sea

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

AH, COUNTY Mayo! Ireland's greenest shore, washed by the tropical waters of the Gulf Stream, as the tourist brochures have it. A funny place to pitch for the Winter Olympics in 2026, you may think. The Irish Met Service rather agrees, pointing out that Mayo has just six days of snow a year, barely enough …

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Regulars

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Regulars

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