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15 November 2003

Issue 2421

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The big blue

The big blue

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Niche construction: the forgotten force of evolution

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Life

The stranger within

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News

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Technology

Painless way to gauge deep muscle stiffness

FEELING stiff? Suffering from aches and pains? If muscle stiffness is the underlying cause, then a technique now undergoing trials could pinpoint the problem precisely. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a new, painless way of measuring the stiffness of the deepest muscle fibres by taking snapshots of the problem area with a magnetic resonance imaging …

News

Technology

Look who's talking

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Technology

Defeating distortion

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Technology

Video reminder

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Technology

Hello, will you be my friend?

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Technology

Puncture repair kit

News

Secret of compulsive hoarding revealed

News

Born in a flash of radiation

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It's hot as hell but the bubbly's lovely

News

Drug regulator takes stand on gene chip

News

Cancer obeys law

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

Make or break for memory claim

News

Technology

Too close for comfort

News

It's not who you know…it's who the people you know know

News

Chimps remember how to play the numbers game for years

News

Excited electrons cut the friction

News

Pay attention

News

Iron-clad snails foil predator

News

Booming birds sing like whales

News

Doubt greets claims for artery-clearing drug

News

Experts squabble over ancient bones

News

The truth is in there

News

Red tape is killing green pesticides across Europe

News

Limited victory for medical cannabis

News

Granny gorilla knows best

News

Origin of atolls solves Pacific migration puzzle

News

Reality bites for the dream of a hydrogen economy

News

Exercise makes the brain faster but not smarter

News

Rat on a rogue

News

60 Seconds

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Psst, got any CFCs?

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Eat fast, die early

News

Bloody politics

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Clash of interests in caspian

News

Twisted firestarter

News

Clean needle plea

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

"THERE is no excuse for the ongoing use of contaminated cell lines." This was the message of a recent editorial in Â鶹´«Ã½, accompanying a news item that reported how impostor cells continue to wreck research into vaccines, cancer and much more (20 September, p 5 and p 8) . I showed the comment and …

Opinion

Theatre of war

Opinion

Faster, cheaper, sicker

Opinion

Warts and all

Opinion

With power comes responsibility

Opinion

Features

The big blue

The big blue

THIS may come as a shock. There are planets out there that are like nothing we have seen before. We know about rocky worlds like our own. We know about planets that are huge balls of gas. But now there is a new kid on the planetary block. "We call them 'ocean planets' – giant …

Features

Niche construction: the forgotten force of evolution

Features

Life

The stranger within

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Reassuring radical

Plan B by Lester Brown, W. W. Norton, $15.95, ISBN 0393325237 Reviewed by Fred Pearce YOU could call this latest epistle from Lester Brown, the grand-daddy of environmental advocacy, a smart piece of recycling. His big themes are certainly familiar. But the founder of the Worldwatch Institute, a green Washington think tank, and current custodian …

Books & Arts

How to spin gold

Careers

Bestsellers - Online

Books & Arts

Wolves: Behavior, ecology, and conservation edited by L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani

Books & Arts

Darwin at home

Books & Arts

Behind the Blip: Essays on the culture of software by Matthew Fuller

Books & Arts

Lose the name

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE leaves are falling from the trees in London's parks, the nights are growing longer and colder, and the shops are filling with tinsel and tat. It can only mean the time has come for the Feedback annual competition. This year's competition is a simple one. You are invited to invent a new scientific word …

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