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10 January 2004

Issue 2429

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Bat out of hell

Bat out of hell

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Destined for destruction

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We've seen the future …

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Sperm warfare

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

We can't hold back the water any more

LAST winter's floods on the rivers of central Europe were among the worst since the Middle Ages, and as winter storms return, the spectre of floods is returning too. Just weeks ago, the river Rhône in south-east France burst its banks, driving 15,000 people from their homes, and worse could be on the way. So …

News

Technology

Big brother in the passenger seat

News

Technology

Texting hits telly

News

Technology

Security score

News

Light weight

News

Flower power

News

A bug to ease the belly ache

News

Burst an antibubble

News

Poop shooters of the Antarctic

News

Alien stars light up the Milky Way

News

Technology

Casinos lead the chip revolution

News

Technology

How not to lose everything

News

Technology

Fly's-eye view shines a light on disease

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Aiming for a kinder cut

News

Beware tap water if you wear contact lenses

News

60 Seconds

News

Lifting the curse of the Red Planet

News

Two cheers for red wine

News

Brain's subconscious prediction throws new light on autism

News

Chinese SARS case confirmed

News

Picture a comet, on a journey through space…

News

Sewage nutrients fuel coral disease

News

Where no implant has gone before

News

No remedy in sight for herbal ransack

News

Too many twins

News

US faces up to BSE

News

Virus 'smuggled'

News

Dwindling sperm

News

Ban on herbal pill

News

Libya exposes nuclear trade

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

UNLESS you have experienced the displeasure of the extreme animal rights lobby, as I have, it is difficult to imagine what it can be like. I have become concerned of late with the dire situation facing the UK's Institute of Animal Technology, the professional association of animal technicians. The IAT is unable to hold its …

Opinion

Hold the dream...

Opinion

Enemy at the gates

Opinion

Opportunity knocks

Opinion

Where's the beef on BSE?

Opinion

Features

Bat out of hell

Bat out of hell

In 1819, the French corvette Uranie called in at Guam, the largest and southern most of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific. It was one of many landfalls during the Uranie's four-year voyage around the world, but Jacques Arago, the expedition's artist, had lost none of his enthusiasm for observing native islanders. The Chamorros …

Features

Destined for destruction

Features

We've seen the future …

Features

Sperm warfare

Features

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New Year resolution

After the holiday feasting comes the remorse of conscience as you assess the damage from pigging out on rich foods. For most people the body is the first target of new year resolutions. Dieting in January has become a hardy perennial for December's gluttons, and an increasing obsession all year round for many more. But …

Books & Arts

Star Wars by Loring Wirbel 2004

Books & Arts

Trading places

Books & Arts

A Reason for Everything: Natural selection and the English imagination by Marek Kohn (2004)

Books & Arts

How Homo Became Sapiens: On the evolution of thinking by Peter Gärdenfors

Books & Arts

Serpents' tales

Books & Arts

Up close

Books & Arts

Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles

Books & Arts

See the light

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THIS column once engaged in a lively two-month debate with the public announcements board at Northwood station on the London underground. So we were delighted to hear from researcher John Gilbey that another form of noticeboard is doing its bit to challenge email and text messaging's hegemony over 21st-century communications. The laboratory whiteboard, Gilbey points …

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