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25 October 2003

Issue 2418

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Henry's little pot of gold

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What doesn't kill you

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Earth

Last chance for Kyoto

Features
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Highway to hell

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News

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Technology

The animation game

IT IS a Tuesday evening in Mesquite, Texas. Four young men are crowded into a darkened room, each clutching a computer game console hooked up to monitors. The consoles are linked so that the gamers can play against each other in the same virtual world. Inside this world, the gamers control robots moving through an …

News

Technology

Tricky tracker

News

Technology

Tea at the speed of espresso

News

Technology

Chamber of secrets

News

Technology

Trouble and strife in wireless homes

News

Technology

Robot skin stretches to the task

News

Technology

Will jamming be the new texting?

News

Dead could help the living see

News

More Stonehenge carvings come to light

News

Power up with squeezed water

News

Carbon conundrum cracked at last

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

Cyber-astronomer scours the skies

News

Technology

'Cellphone radar' tracks traffic flow

News

Legal ivory did not help black market

News

The power to pick the best embryo

News

We hear that…

News

The sweet way to make cells do what you want

News

Microwave cooking zaps nutrients

News

Why destroying antibiotics makes them work better

News

Life

Veggie monsters

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Obesity harms men's fertility

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Memory affected by single gene

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Rogue refraction

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Life

Ancient birds legged it to take wing

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Bees simply turn tail to find their way back home

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Life

Agile amphibians

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Confident China joins space elite

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Facial tumours kill a third of all Tasmanian devils

News

Fast foods trick the body

News

Soundbites

News

Why do the Chinese want to conquer space?

News

60 Seconds

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Life

Tabs on teens

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Designer steroid

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Setback for Europe's nuclear safety plan

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Fish farm danger

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Crop violations

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The final countdown

News

Forests plundered

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

DECEMBER sees the 50th anniversary of the "atoms for peace" speech by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN general assembly. Eisenhower wanted the world to control nuclear weapons proliferation, and the UN responded by creating the International Atomic Energy Agency. The president also suggested that the means to produce electricity from nuclear reactors …

Opinion

Taking the long view

Opinion

Farming 1, wildlife 0

Opinion

A victory for reason

Opinion

The next great superpower

Opinion

Features

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Henry's little pot of gold

It all began with some chrysanthemums. In the late 1830s, Henry Bessemer was making his start in London by creating innovative metal dies and embossing devices. But on a visit to his sister in his home village of Charlton in Hertfordshire, he found his talent for calligraphy called upon instead. She wanted him to write …

Features

What doesn't kill you

Features

Earth

Last chance for Kyoto

Features

Highway to hell

Features

More

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May the first be with you

We Are Everywhere: The irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism edited by Notes from Nowhere, Verso, £10.99, ISBN 1859844472 Reviewed by Mike Holderness IT has taken less than five years for the movement of anti-capitalist movements documented in We Are Everywhere to have its powerful effects. World trade talks will never be the same again after …

Books & Arts

Rita Colwell

Books & Arts

Carol Greider

Books & Arts

Dual purpose

Books & Arts

The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon by Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem and Efrem Ferreira

Books & Arts

Entertaining Mr Chicken

Books & Arts

Roman family values

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THOUGHT you had got away with your career as a jewel thief? Think again. Fragments of DNA left at a crime scene can be analysed years later to free someone from a wrongful conviction or to identify a crook at large. But in the US, there is hope for criminals – in the form of …

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