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18 October 2003

Issue 2417

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Last seen heading east

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Speed freaks

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On the trail of a killer

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Too close for comfort

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News

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Technology

A way to film the past

Camcorders could soon be looking back in time to capture action you missed. Richard Arthur of Somerset, UK, has filed a patent (GB 2384905) for a camera with a standby mode in which images are continually recorded in RAM. The memory stores a few seconds' worth of data, and continually overwrites it. When you press …

News

Technology

Pot shot

News

Technology

Lost without a mobile phone

News

Technology

3D TV as you've never seen it

News

Fine features of the peacock's tail reveal their colourful secrets

News

Starless galaxy hides in the dark

News

Market model predicts crashes

News

Hot, helpless bug

News

Indian frog shares ancient origins with islands' living fossil

News

Why three cloned embyros are better than one

News

Rejection really does hurt

News

Success at last, even after Viagra failed

News

Technology

Digital double act

News

Enzymes scan DNA using electric pulse

News

Technology

Shrinking ions help conductors beat the heat

News

Technology

The whole shooting match

News

Technology

No need to shut down, just pull the plug…

News

Technology

Super-efficient fuel hits the road

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Soundbites

News

IVF creates fetuses with three parents

News

Singular secret of flight unveiled

News

Universe stepped on the gas 5 billion years ago

News

World war aces shoot celebrity down in flames

News

Bioterror code

News

Cloning claims

News

Teens will rule the world

News

Pollen furore

News

Anti-copy blunder

News

60 Seconds

News

Banning modified crops is not enough to save wildlife

News

Passing stop sign cures gene disease

News

Souped-up genes pulled humans into fast lane

News

Did warming seas suck Africa dry?

News

Patent sting

News

Fortifying Food crops

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

IS SUNLIGHT harmful or health giving? It's an issue that will get more pressing across Europe if we have more summers like 2003. Sadly, health authorities may not always give the public the right advice about sunshine. Relevant data can be sparse and too complex even for some specialists (Â鶹´«Ã½, 9 August, p 3) …

Opinion

I want to live forever

Opinion

Are protected areas failing us?

Opinion

Nobel in defeat

Opinion

What'll we do when the animals answer back?

Opinion

Features

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Last seen heading east

In the spring of 1924, Valentin Ushakov was birdwatching on the marshes near his home town of Tara in south-western Siberia. He was searching for one bird in particular: the slender-billed curlew. Before the Russian revolution he had made regular trips to the marshes and had occasionally seen the curlews. He had even discovered a …

Features

Speed freaks

Features

On the trail of a killer

Features

Too close for comfort

Features

More

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Obscene botany

Sex, Botany & Empire by Patricia Fara, Icon Books, £9.99, ISBN 1840464887 Reviewed by Roy Herbert YOU get your money's worth and more in this entertaining book from Patricia Fara. It's about Linnaeus's system of classification of plants but it's more about Joseph Banks, the botanist who accompanied James Cook's expedition to Australia. Cook's ship, …

Books & Arts

Nanotechnology and Homeland Security by Mark Ratner and Dan Ratner

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Portland, Oregon

Books & Arts

Crossing borders

Careers

True love, virtual sex

Books & Arts

War No More by Robert Hinde and Joseph Rotblat

Books & Arts

Calm after the cataclysm

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

OUR candidate for best press-release headline of the year is the one we received recently from the US National Science Foundation: "Catapulting Barbie Doll Heads". We certainly read on – and found that, following concern that traditional science teaching may be alienating to girls, the NSF had funded 225 projects aimed at sparking girls' interest …

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