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6 September 2003

Issue 2411

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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.

Health

The maddening problem of SARS: Immune systems in overdrive

Features
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.

A picture tells a thousand lies

Features
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.

Playboy of the atom world

Features
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.

In the shadow of fear

Features
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 black hole survival guide

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.

Icy impostors

FINDING planets with a mass similar to Earth's in habitable zones around other stars is a top priority for astronomers on the lookout for extraterrestrial life. But Marc Kuchner of Princeton University Observatory warns that not all such planets will be rocky worlds like Earth or Mars. In the cold outer regions of a planetary …

News

Vapour trails lift the lid on ignorosphere

News

Piscine pain

News

Just mash a millipede

News

Secret of stickiness

News

The body electric

News

Technology

Eccentric bid to halt piracy

News

Technology

Cryptic movie cache

News

Technology

Save our snacks

News

Meat eating is an old habit

News

Lack of sleep can cause brain damage and affect memory

News

Oldest ever ice core is a ticket to prehistory

News

High hopes as ion trappers hold onto their qubits

News

A few prehistoric men had all the children

News

Brain chemical could be the key to autism severity

News

Meteors not water coloured Red Planet

News

Long, narrow skulls reveal the colonisation of America

News

At last, a car that's as good on the water as on the road

News

A fast way to picture the body's hidden fat

News

Could throttling a virus slow it down?

News

Antivirus strategies in crisis

News

Snapshot of a shaky nation

News

Soundbites

News

Sad ending for three little pigs

News

Can a fence halt the march of the cane toad?

News

Forests near Chernobyl still under stress from fallout

News

Hippo joins the list of great African mammals that are under threat

News

Forensic test fingers rhino poachers

News

Dispatches

News

Hitler saved by Allied drugs?

News

Opinion

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.

Humans

Westminster diary

EXPERTS from the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas, Austin, have come up with a new way to find Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction (Â鶹´«Ã½, 5 July, p 7) . Their idea is to gather the latest intelligence, decide where the weapons are likely to be stashed, and fire a …

Opinion

Remember this...

Opinion

Here comes the sun

Opinion

Red tape won't help the medicine go down

Opinion

Caught on camera

Opinion

Features

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Health

The maddening problem of SARS: Immune systems in overdrive

The SARS virus didn't kill its victims directly – they died because their immune systems went into overdrive. Researchers are now scrambling to find ways to damp down such a response before the next killer disease emerges, reports Debora MacKenzie

Features

A picture tells a thousand lies

Features

Playboy of the atom world

Features

In the shadow of fear

Features

The black hole survival guide

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.

Universe on wheels

The Isaac Newton School of Driving: Physics and your car by Barry Parker, Johns Hopkins University Press, $26.95, ISBN 0801874173 Reviewed by Jonathan Beard BARRY Parker grew up around his dad's garage, taught physics at a university for 30 years, and now has become a busy populariser of science. The Isaac Newton School of Driving …

Books & Arts

One sheep, two sheep, three sheep…

Books & Arts

Enjoy the atmosphere

Books & Arts

Goddess in the making

Books & Arts

The word chinese retsina

Books & Arts

Leaner, keener or merely bigger?

Careers

How Karl Popper's ideals lost out to Thomas Kuhn's "normal science"

Books & Arts

I want one of those

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

COMING soon to a department store near you: a fitting room that warns you "your bum looks big in that" before you humiliate yourself in public. British company Qinetiq has devised a system using 3D cameras that not only snap the potential customer as he or she cavorts in front of the mirror, but also …

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