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8 November 2003

Issue 2420

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The star who unravelled the sun

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Way to grow

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The gravity radio

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Life

Armed and dangerous

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News

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Technology

Now who's in the driver's seat?

IT IS one of those coincidences of history that Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in the same year that the Wright brothers made their first flight. And now, 100 years later, these two technologies are becoming more closely intertwined than ever. In the next few years we will start to see cars adopting …

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

Walking with dinosaurs in the virtual TV studio

News

Technology

Three-dimensional guts

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Technology

Moving photos

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Technology

Confusion reigns in the nanoworld

News

Technology

I'm a commuter, get me out of here

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Technology

The TV that thinks it's a phone

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Urban veg alert

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While my nanoguitar gently heats…

News

Technology

Heavens are dimmed for Chandra space telescope

News

Sticky dust clearly fingers the culprit

News

Black holes on collision course

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Salt in the snow

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'Kyoto lite' fails

News

Clones On the table

News

Chemical weapons linger

News

Friends of Galileo

News

E-voting gets its hanging chads

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Brewing a storm

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60 Seconds

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How the US crackdown on bioterror is backfiring

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Earth lucks out with perfect storm

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Oldest human custom?

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Cardboard can be simply delicious

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Voyager says goodbye to the solar system

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Smell test for schizophrenia

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Virus helps tailor cancer drugs

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Fragmented forest faces bleak future

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Killer clue to lemming mystery

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Plankton defend Earth from icy fate

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Soundbites

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Search angst

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

FORENSIC scientists in Connecticut are using DNA fingerprinting to create a database of DNA profiles of different marijuana plants (Â鶹´«Ã½, 17 July, p 7) . I showed the report to Caroline Flint, a Home Office under-secretary whose responsibilities include reducing harm from drug abuse, and I put it that DNA-finger printing might help trace …

Opinion

Virtue in mind

Opinion

No place for piety

Opinion

A climate of fear

Opinion

Features

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The star who unravelled the sun

From the time of Greek thinker Anazagoras in the 5th century BC until the 1920s, people thought the sun had the same composition as the Earth. Then came a woman who turned the received wisdom on its head. She wrotes the greatest astronomy PhD of the 20th century. Yet hardly anyone knows her name. SHe …

Features

Way to grow

Features

The gravity radio

Features

Life

Armed and dangerous

Features

More

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The numbers game

WITH hindsight, it is obvious. Smoking causes cancer, saturated fat is bad for your heart and some forms of asbestos will harm your lungs. But years ago these links were not obvious at all. In fact, Richard Doll, who in 1950 discovered that smoking causes lung cancer, was initially convinced that cars – not tobacco …

Careers

How the mind became

Books & Arts

Relative obscurity

Books & Arts

It's for you

Books & Arts

Hooked on knowledge

Books & Arts

Cable guy

Books & Arts

They spy with their little eye

Books & Arts

Sticks and stones

Books & Arts

Recipe for disasters

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FIRST there was "How to boil the perfect egg". Now comes "How to cut the perfect cheese sandwich". Ig Nobel prizewinner Len Fisher of Bristol University in the UK has calculated how thick a slice of cheese should be to make the perfect cheese sandwich. Fisher, who won his Ig Nobel in 1999 for a …

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