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4 October 2003

Issue 2415

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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 pursuit of happiness

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Reasons to be cheerful

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Real time

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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.

Technology

Cutting edge

ANTI-SPAMMERS PLAY HARDBALL California, the most populous state in the US, has followed the UK and Australia in introducing tough new "opt-in" anti-spam laws. Prompted by predictions that junk email will cost the state $1.2 billion this year alone, the legislation allows $1 million-per-incident fines to anyone sending commercial email to Californians who have not …

News

Technology

Neural nets learn better with waves

News

Technology

Enjoy it while you can

News

Technology

The story of your life…on a laptop

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

Advanced chip opens door to free choice of software

News

Technology

Mineral sieve filters out carbon from flue gases

News

Handed down from distant generations

News

Earth's bugs too feeble for Mars

News

T'ai chi helps keep shingles virus at bay

News

The slow road to the moon

News

'Too little' oil for global warming

News

Solar power will put Arctic oil in the shade

News

History of the world's tallest mountain range revealed

News

Huntington's clogs the pipes

News

A perfect storm

News

Local body time

News

Earliest shark upsets family tree

News

How best to kill a Fox

News

Safety vacuum

News

Chemical alert

News

Italy felled by lone tree

News

Brazil's U-turn

News

Patently absurd

News

Satellite gamble

News

60 Seconds

News

Iraqis reclaim their ancient wetlands

News

Has dark matter been found at last?

News

Antibiotics for babies linked to asthma

News

Genome of man's best friend is still riddled with gaps

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Eels slide towards extinction

News

Cool reception for drug to limit smoking damage

News

Soundbites

News

Faster healing with fewer scars

News

Protein locks out prion disease

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

INTELLIGENT pedestrian surveillance (IPS) systems promise to spot potential crimes before you or I would realise anything was amiss. And if the technology takes off, it could put an end to a long-standing problem that has dogged closed circuit (CCTV) systems from the beginning, as Jenny Hogan has written (Â鶹´«Ã½, 12 July, p 4) …

Opinion

Playing God?

Opinion

How not to stop the cheats

Opinion

The good, the bad and the brilliant

Opinion

No smokescreen

Opinion

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 pursuit of happiness

WHERE or how are we supposed to find happiness? Through good works and helping people, perhaps, or by finding religion or discovering the joys of "downshifting"? Well, maybe. But whatever strategy you choose, it'll help enormously if you live in Puerto Rico or Denmark. The latest global analysis of how levels of satisfaction and happiness …

Features

Reasons to be cheerful

Features

Real time

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.

Winning pictures at an exhibition

Visions of Science Photographic Awards Reviewed by Adam Goff The Mutemwa Leprosy Settlement in Zimbabwe was founded in the 1930s with nearly a thousand residents. Now, though, only 38 people live there. This moving portrait of Manuwere Chikuna is by Simon Roberts, and won second prize in the People category of the 2003 Visions of …

Books & Arts

All around the Earth

Books & Arts

Make medicines count

Books & Arts

Monkey business

Books & Arts

The word hindcasting

Books & Arts

A national institution

Careers

Climate: Into the 21st century edited by William Burroughs

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

EARLIER this year we reported on attempts to sell "buffered water" and "dehydrated water" to the gullible (Feedback, 10 May) . Now reader Max Howland of Seacliff Park, South Australia, tells us of a booth in his local shopping mall dispensing "magnetic water". Consisting simply of a water dispenser sitting on a large magnet, the …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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