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13 December 2003

Issue 2425

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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.

The case of the mysterious mind

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.

Super pooper

Features
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Mingle bells

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

Fasten your seatbelts, this could get scary

AS THE skies have become more crowded, accident rates have actually fallen. But maintaining this trend will be a major challenge, given a new breed of hazard facing the aviation world. "Unmanned aerial vehicles", or UAVs, are already flying combat missions over Iraq, and in the coming decades we could see swarms of unmanned cargo …

News

Technology

Is small beautiful, or bigger best?

News

Technology

Race to find the warp that works

News

Technology

Slung into orbit

News

Technology

Discs that stay dead

News

Technology

Enter the drug-cam

News

Technology

Still dreaming of a do-it-all cellphone

News

Technology

The shape of wings to come

News

Technology

The baffling problem of noise pollution

News

Technology

Pedestrians at risk from sports utility vehicles

News

Ancient penis brings fame to lowly fossil

News

Technology

Pollen cast in starring role as micro-scaffolding

News

Technology

Chemical imager reveals 'invisible' fingerprints

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Diamond designs without tears

News

Earth

Our magnetic shield is growing weaker

News

Earth

Roving sub explores under Antarctic ice

News

Poison toads may be a last supper for many of Australia's snakes

News

Sunshine sends asteroid off course

News

Red stop light

News

Bare necessities

News

Superbugs hold the seeds of their demise

News

Eggs fertilised by artificial sperm for the first time

News

No need to put on a brave face

News

Stem cells allow infertile males to become fathers

News

Earth

Early farmers warmed climate

News

Earth

Local quake forecast has bad news for LA

News

We hear that…

News

No more smears?

News

Drug packs double blow

News

Corpses of dead kill the living

News

Soundbites

News

Old drug offers hope of new growth in spinal cord

News

Furore over HRT

News

Reef to be made a sanctuary

News

Maths muddle

News

Oak panic hits UK

News

60 Seconds

News

Saving the world, plan B

News

Cod starved to extinction

News

Knockout gas at camp x-ray?

News

Nuclear weakness

News

Underhand ban

News

Opinion

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.

Humans

Westminster diary

TIGHT intellectual property regimes are rarely in the interest of poor countries (Â鶹´«Ã½, 12 July, p 21) . I asked Gareth Thomas, the Department for International Development (DFID) minister with responsibility for HIV and AIDS, what can be done about such regimes in the context of medicines, especially those for HIV and AIDS. Thomas …

Opinion

Enter the tiger

Opinion

Hear no evil

Opinion

Growing greener wings

Opinion

The fine print that threatens democracy

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.

The case of the mysterious mind

"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition," says our philosopher hero, Miranda Sharpe, to her empty-headed cat. Indeed they don't. And nobody expects to read an exciting crime thriller that is set in the world of cognitive science, peopled by real philosophers who care about the mysteries of existence, and that claims to present a new theory …

Features

Super pooper

Features

Mingle bells

Features

More

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.

Holiday reading to give and to get

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Transworld Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Eurekas and Euphorias by Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio, Heinemann/Random House Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins The IgNobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams, Orion Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland by …

Books & Arts

Biotech flexes its muscles

Careers

Dear diaries

Books & Arts

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space by Fernand Verger and other books

Books & Arts

Say cheese

Books & Arts

Every picture…

Books & Arts

World of birds

Books & Arts

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

BOBBLE-HEAD dolls started out as caricatures of everyone's favourite baseball stars and have grown in popularity. The dolls' outsized heads, as the name suggests, bob about with only the slightest nudge. Baseball stars really know they have made it when the manufacturers issue a bobble head of them. American footballers, rock musicians and Disney characters …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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