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22 November 2003

Issue 2422

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From bourbon to binary

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Doomsday scenario

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Evolving with the enemy

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From here to eternity

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News

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Life

In short…

IT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH IT A young man who had the entire left hemisphere of his brain removed to stop chronic seizures when he was eight years old now has language skills within the normal range. The left side normally deals with language, but scans show that the man, now 22, has developed language …

News

Elderly cockroaches trip their way into the twilight years

News

Can spleen cells treat diabetes?

News

Here's the catch

News

Bugs trigger attack on heart

News

Ancient Mexicans made modern maize

News

Dark star technique offers clear view of new planets

News

Mystery meson breaks the rules

News

The shape of nozzles to come

News

Technology

End of the breathalyser?

News

Technology

Smooth approach cuts noise pollution

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Optical gate kick-starts quantum computer race

News

Technology

Questioning viruses

News

Technology

Infectious contacts

News

Technology

Burning rubber

News

Technology

Hitting the paper trail all over again

News

Technology

Time warp

News

Fairer sex drove social evolution

News

Life

Hungry for love

News

Life

Computer game fuels dyslexia debate

News

Life

More Alzheimer's vaccines set for trials

News

'Microfossils' made in the laboratory

News

British plan for ID cards will fail to catch multiple identity frauds

News

How 100,000 molecules behave as one

News

Face transplants 'still too risky'

News

Ultra-long DNA is a geneticist's dream

News

Will overcrowding sink Noah's Ark?

News

Sulphur fumes

News

60 Seconds

News

To boldly cash in

News

Computer cool, kasparov hot

News

Fjord avenger

News

No sex selection

News

Congress approves mini-nukes

News

Nokia eyes Psion

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

A WIDE range of technologies are now available to make firearms safer and restrict their use to authorised owners (Â鶹´«Ã½, 12 July, p 8) . Caroline Flint, the Home Office minister with responsibility for firearms policy, expressed great interest when I showed her the news item. However, she emphasised that regulations are far tighter …

Opinion

Primal dream

Opinion

A crime against humanity

Opinion

The thought detectives

Opinion

Features

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From bourbon to binary

John Atanasoff was getting nowhere. It was a bitterly cold night in 1937, and he was stuck in the physics building at Iowa State University agonising over his stalled idea for a machine to solve algebraic equations. Exasperated, Atanasoff impulsively jumped into his car and drove aimlessly across the flat expanse of Iowa. He did …

Features

Doomsday scenario

Features

Evolving with the enemy

Features

From here to eternity

Features

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The Cretaceous World edited by Peter Skelton

The Cretaceous World edited by Peter Skelton, Cambridge University Press, £27.95, ISBN 0521538432 Reviewed by Douglas Palmer IF THE Cretaceous conjures up anything at all, it is probably some vague association of chalk, school blackboards and big white cliffs on both sides of the English Channel. Bright sparks might also know that Cretaceous times were …

Books & Arts

Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Books & Arts

Janna Levin

Books & Arts

The next wave

Careers

100 Suns by Michael Light

Books & Arts

Attack of the killer fish

Books & Arts

Keep on doubting

Books & Arts

Ingenuity vs prejudice

Books & Arts

Regulars

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