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17 January 2004

Issue 2430

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The best skin cream you ever wore

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Humans

The in-crowd

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Know thy neighbour

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News

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Scars show comet has 'solid' centre

THE latest analysis of pictures taken by NASA's Stardust probe during its headlong plunge through comet Wild 2 on 2 January has revealed a big surprise: the comet's icy nucleus is covered in what look like impact craters. In its first bulletin last week on the mission's findings, the Stardust team reported that the jets …

News

Stark warning for Venice in the watery fate of ancient cities

News

Dusty veil hides gargantuan Sun

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Left over right and under…

News

Riddle solved?

News

The sweaty scent that mozzies can't resist

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Dying star churns out the building blocks of life

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Cold virus fights skin cancer cells

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Honey I've unravelled the bee genome

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Technology

Natural glass

News

Technology

Opting for pop-ups

News

Technology

Higher learning, the Wi-Fi way

News

Technology

Red, red pills

News

Technology

Snap to fit your cellphone

News

Technology

Let the machines take the strain in the lab

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Help! my owner just crashed…

News

Technology

Instant start-up for PCs

News

The BESST way to judge the success of IVF clinics

News

A fishy tale of salmon, dioxins and food safety

News

Why galaxy cluster is too grown-up for early Universe

News

The music stops if you don't hit the right spot

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Ancestral 'cold' genes may protect against Alzheimer's

News

Soundbites

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Sunspot sunset

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Spirit gears up to head for the hills

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'Safer' cigarette myth goes up in smoke

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US unveils its red ambitions

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Tracing emeralds' origins could foil smugglers

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60 Seconds

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Modified nation?

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Apes' ray of hope

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Bird flu deaths

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Mad cow threat to husky fun

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Plan B, C, D…

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Kenyan recount

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THERE is wide concern at the European Commission's proposal to subject all chemicals produced in the European Union, or imported into it, to a rigorous regime of testing. Such is the alarm raised by the proposed Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemical Substances (REACH) policy that British prime minister Tony Blair, French president Jacques Chirac …

Opinion

Restoration tragedy

Opinion

Don't mention the gun

Opinion

Pink and poisonous?

Opinion

Features

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The best skin cream you ever wore

ASK anyone – except, perhaps, the proud parents – and they'll tell you a baby's debut into the world is hardly a pretty sight. Coated in all sorts of body fluids and a white, cheesy paste called vernix, a baby's momentous first seconds in the world are, well, a little yucky. But Marty Visscher, executive …

Features

Humans

The in-crowd

Features

Know thy neighbour

Features

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Altered vistas

Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort, MIT Press, $29.95/£19.95, ISBN 0262134365 Reviewed by Mike Holderness INTERACTIVE fiction promises so much. When the original game Adventure said you were in a maze of "twisty little passages, all alike" and asked what you wanted to do, it heralded a new form of fiction, perhaps a text that …

Books & Arts

Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - London

Books & Arts

The next big thing

Careers

The whole Earth show

Books & Arts

Wanting inspiration

Books & Arts

Myth power

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK congratulates NASA on safely landing at least one Mars rover. This despite the fears reader Mike Mellor had, prompted by an interview with Jim Garvin, lead scientist for Mars exploration at NASA in the Astronomy Now 2004 Yearbook. There Garvin states: "I had a science group evaluate how we should image planets from their …

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