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20 December 2003

Issue 2426

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Alas, poor warrah...

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Hosts with the most

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What are you laughing at?

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The shining

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Non-shrink sheep

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The magic number

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Be happy

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Raise you 50…

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Party animals

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Extreme winemaking

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Quadramagicology

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Charge of the ice brigade

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Freezer teaser

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Einstein on acid

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Countdown to the Mars landings

IN the early hours of Christmas morning a pale red dot visible just above the horizon in the evening sky will become the focus of extraordinary global attention. Shortly after 2 am GMT, Mars will receive a small visitor from Europe, followed shortly by two visitors from the US. And if that weren't stretching the …

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Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

Military software corrects the MRI jitters

News

Technology

Naked nanofibres are supersniffers of tomorrow

News

Technology

Oil does the splits

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Technology

Vibrating eyeballs

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Technology

A greener antifreeze

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Technology

And machine shall talk to machine…

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Sea monster

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Four-winged dinosaur

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Self pleasure is good for you

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Bug breath blows us away

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Best bits of 2003

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Fire or flood, we make it worse

News

Altered crops? Let Africa make up its own mind

News

Why fighting nanotech is anti-globalisation's new cause

News

Technology

Secret of 'strained silicon' revealed

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Million-dollar problem solved

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The big rip

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A pill a day…

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Autistic genius

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China conquers space

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The Universe gives up its dark secrets

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Losing the ape within

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Where do we go from here?

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Truth and technology at war

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Not so many fish in the sea

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'All forms of infertility will be treatable'

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Hydrogen evangelists spread the word

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Biology on the front line

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Rocket science is not the hard part

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SARS could rise again

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Isolated reindeer in dire straits

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Drug may keep dementia at bay

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Solar cycles drove medieval markets

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IT summit fails the info-poor

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Growing human organs on the farm

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

BY THE time this column next appears, we will know whether NASA is sitting on top of the world or is back in the doghouse. The space administration's fate depends on a 1000-kilogram spacecraft known as Spirit that is supposed to land on Mars on 3 January (North American time). In truth, Spirit won't so …

Opinion

Call of the wild

Opinion

Into thin air

Opinion

They came, they glowed...

Opinion

Twixt apes and angels

Opinion

Features

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Alas, poor warrah...

In 1836, as HMS Beagle cleared Ascension Island in the Atlantic on the final leg of its voyage, ship's naturalist Charles Darwin began to organise the notes from his five-year adventure. When he got to his jottings from the Galapagos islands, he described how the Spaniards could tell which of the islands a giant tortoise …

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Hosts with the most

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What are you laughing at?

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The shining

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Non-shrink sheep

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The magic number

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Be happy

Features

Technology

Raise you 50…

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Party animals

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Extreme winemaking

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Quadramagicology

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Charge of the ice brigade

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Freezer teaser

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Einstein on acid

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King of the swingers

The Life and Science of Léon Foucault: The man who proved the Earth rotates By William Tobin, Cambridge University Press, £40/$60, ISBN 0521808553 Reviewed by David Hughes A VERY long pendulum has kept Léon Foucault famous. But as William Tobin's thorough, readable and beautifully illustrated biography reveals, there was much more to this self-taught French …

Books & Arts

Greasy moon

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Monster bunch

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Ground force

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I'm a jungle VIP

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Go figure

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Martian mettle

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Golden Beagle

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Nobel reading

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Feedback

FOR THIS year's Feedback competition, readers were invited to invent a new scientific word that we need and define it in an appropriately pompous way. The competition attracted more entries than any previous one, and the standard was impressively high. The first shortlist of potential winners contained more than 50 entries, and whittling it down …

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