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6 December 2003

Issue 2424

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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.

Hens' eggs and snail shells

Features
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The trouble with sex

Features
Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth

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An officer and a weatherman

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Table of contents

News

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Life

Neanderthal art alters the face of archaeology

AN INNOCUOUS looking piece of stone has been discovered that could revolutionise archaeology. The stone depicts a face, and was supposedly made by Neanderthals around 32,000 years ago. If true, it would be one of the oldest, and most important pieces of rock art known. Whether Neanderthals were capable of complex art is one of …

News

Is dark energy a mirage?

News

Kiwi rewrites rugby results

News

Right of refusal

News

Stark flu warning

News

iTunes hacker is out of sync

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Great gobblers

News

Credit is skin deep

News

Crash and burn

News

60 Seconds

News

WHO accused of huge HIV blunder

News

Technology

Driven to distraction?

News

Stellar corpse turns up in Earth's backyard

News

Technology

Crunch time looms for offshore wind power

News

Technology

Miniature spy helicopter aims to hover unheard

News

Technology

Seatback computing arrives

News

Technology

Deodorant photocopies

News

Technology

New angle on guessing game

News

Technology

Cluster crunchers take the biscuit

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Tough molecule gives organic chips a chance

News

Technology

Power-line internet hits world radio

News

Making Doppler turn in his grave

News

Zapping bugs in the air con helps keep office workers at their desks

News

Soundbites

News

Exploding black holes rain down on Earth

News

The moon is quakin' all over

News

Gene for non-hereditary breast cancer is discovered

News

Przewalski's horse has ancient lineage

News

Beast had extra little piggies

News

BSE test works on live animals

News

Slimy gardeners

News

Radar trick will make birth safer

News

DNA in hardback

News

You're my wife?

News

GM crops benefit the environment

News

Smart fish migrate by hitching a lift upstream

News

Opinion

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HIV and dirty needles

A STAGGERING 40 million people are now infected with HIV, 2.5 million of them children. But amid the grim statistics there are signs that maybe, just maybe, the tide is beginning to turn. Antiviral drugs are at last getting cheaper and money is beginning to flow from western governments and foundations in the quantity needed …

Opinion

Curious about how the world will end?

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

I'm dying, doctor

Opinion

For want of a dollar a year

Opinion

Features

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Hens' eggs and snail shells

The Hippocratic oath includes this curious promise: "I will not cut for stone...I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners." Bladder stones are among humanity's oldest known ailments, and its surgery an ancient procedure – but, as Hippocrates warned, one so dangerous that it should not be trusted to doctors. Only specialists could …

Features

The trouble with sex

Features

Hell on Earth

Features

An officer and a weatherman

Features

More

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Stars of 2004

Get a glimpse of next year's skies with the Yearbook of Astronomy 2004, edited by astronomer Patrick Moore (Pan Macmillan, £14.99). The rare transit of Venus across the face of the sun takes place on 8 June. If the skies are clear, Londoners will have a great view of the complete event. Skywatchers are looking …

Books & Arts

Dextrous prose

Books & Arts

Past delights

Books & Arts

Fighting back

Careers

Words fail us

Books & Arts

Idaho Falls: The untold story of America's first nuclear accident by William McKeown

Books & Arts

Rights for roaches

Books & Arts

Devil in the detail

Books & Arts

The Space Between Our Ears by Michael Morgan

Books & Arts

Beyond: Visions of the interplanetary probes by Michael Benson

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

'TIS the season of goodwill and stench to all men. According to the Ananova online news service, the University of Minnesota is spraying some 500 spruces that grace its grounds with skunk odour in an attempt to deter thieves after a free Christmas tree. In cold weather, the skunk smell on the trees will apparently …

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Letters

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