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29 November 2003

Issue 2423

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Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Mayhem after midnight

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Taming the beast

Features
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Making waves

Features

Table of contents

News

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Crash barrier will end PC misery

SOFTWARE that tests critical code before allowing it to run could make personal computers almost entirely crash-proof. Known as Nooks, the software has dramatically improved the stability of the Linux operating system and its inventors say it could be adapted for Windows. Most operating systems have at their core a component known as the kernel, …

News

Technology

Booby-trap patent thwarts spammers

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Cool crystals may stop your batteries leaking

News

Sun-safe campaigns pay off for Aussies

News

Technology

The secret is out

News

Technology

Blowin' in the wind

News

Technology

Off the streets and onto the web

News

Technology

Easy-to-make plastics break the mould

News

Technology

Pirates foiled by GPS

News

Technology

Smart drug packaging

News

Impact caused mass wipeout

News

Bear bones hint at treatment for osteoporosis

News

China's terracotta army is saved from a flaky fate

News

The fly that shouldn't be able to

News

Shocked crystal

News

DNA tool for ivory trackers

News

Salamander is about to reveal its secrets

News

Chatty farmers scattered the seeds of language

News

First gene therapy approved

News

There's life in the old Martian volcanoes yet

News

Wanted: people to test orgasmatron

News

Life without water is almost unthinkable. Isn't it?

News

Lone planets make it just like stars

News

Soundbites

News

Will Europe be next on moon?

News

60 Seconds

News

A body repair kit, within hours, from your own blood

News

Genetic pattern emerges

News

Glowing fish

News

Bots are made for walking

News

SARS vaccine fear

News

Dietary diatribe

News

Albino ape dies

News

Fury over primate decision

News

Where's wallaby?

News

Opinion

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Humans

The power of music: We can work it out

IT'S 1944 in a veterans' hospital in Nowheresville, USA. After losing half his comrades in a raid while fighting in Europe, private John Doe is so badly traumatised that he cannot speak. A musician arrives to entertain the vets. Private Doe starts to cry, his first response to anything in months. As the musician leaves, …

Opinion

Humans

The power of music: From the heart

Opinion

Humans

The power of music: On song

Opinion

Humans

Washington Diary

Opinion

Humans

The power of music: Counterpoint

Opinion

Humans

The power of music: Show me emotion

Opinion

Humans

The power of music: Who could live without it?

Opinion

Food kills

Opinion

Flawless technology, fallible people

Opinion

Listen to the patients

Opinion

Features

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Mayhem after midnight

As day dawned on 27 November 1703, people across the southern half of England and Wales thanked god they were still alive and then emerged from their battered homes to survey the damage. The night had been filled with the howling and screeching of a wind wilder than anything they had heard before, punctuated by …

Features

Taming the beast

Features

Making waves

Features

Regulars

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Feedback

READER John Buchanan tells of a friend who recently bought a cordless DECT phone system from Phillips, which includes several handsets linked to a single base station. The instructions told him that when the phone was in use a small telephone-shaped icon would flash in the corner of the LCD screen on the handset. So …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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