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24 January 2004

Issue 2431

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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.

River deep, mountain high

Features
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Number of the beasts

Features
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Out with the lads

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Dancing the quantum dream

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Enigmatic banknotes

Today's high-resolution image scanners and colour printers are making it easier to create realistic forgeries of bank notes, cheques or share certificates. Now Swiss company Kbagiori has filed a patent application on a simple way to make fakes easier to spot (WO 03/099579). Instead of printing two unrelated serial numbers on each bank note, the …

News

Technology

Atomic hammer flattens mirrors

News

Technology

Sound approach to biotech

News

Technology

Four wheels good, two legs bad

News

Technology

Magic eyes

News

Technology

Endoscope goes where none has gone before

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Magnetic trick breathes new life into MiniDisc

News

Technology

How to second-guess the next hack attack

News

Shattered rocks suggest ice age started in north

News

What we gave up for colour vision

News

Poisonous truth of the serpent's tale

News

SARS outbreak wasn't the first

News

Ancient explosions pelt Earth with shrapnel

News

Sleeping on it really does help you solve a problem

News

The yuck factor

News

Amniotic boost

News

Simple sugar slows Huntington's

News

Our closest look yet at violent Io's volcanic hotspots

News

Conservation plans are fatally flawed

News

60 Seconds

News

Does Mars 'mud' mean life?

News

Meanwhile, across the planet…

News

Vietnam last on vaccine list

News

Soundbites

News

Early life wouldn't stand a chance in a commune

News

We hear that…

News

Earth

Big chill killed off the Neanderthals

News

Are deodorants safe?

News

Health

HIV trial 'useless'

News

Fusion tug of war

News

Derring-do in the high Antarctic

News

US ponders e-vote security

News

Clone claims fail to impress

News

UK's carbon cuts

News

'Ja' to transgenes

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

ANYONE who envisages a future based on a hydrogen economy would do well to accept that doubts are growing about the use of hydrogen on a large scale. A spate of studies suggests that it could cause some disastrous biological and atmospheric effects (Â鶹´«Ã½, 15 November 2003, p 7) . I asked transport ministers …

Opinion

We're still waiting...

Opinion

George Bush and his improbable dream

Opinion

Bush's final frontier

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.

River deep, mountain high

On 22 April 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis was hiking the bluffs of the Missouri river near present-day Williston, North Dakota. Sixty metres below him, other members of the Lewis and Clark expedition were waitingfor strong headwinds to die down so they could continue their laborious journey up river. Lewis decided to explore on foot. As …

Features

Number of the beasts

Features

Out with the lads

Features

Dancing the quantum dream

Features

More

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Peter Agre

2003 was a brilliant year for Peter Agre, professor of biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He won the Nobel prize for chemistry for his discovery of water channels in cell membranes. Agre enjoys histories and biographies: his latest read is David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest (Random House, 1972), about the …

Books & Arts

Kristin Bowman-James

Books & Arts

The perils of undervaluation

Careers

Dead right

Books & Arts

Dinotopia

Books & Arts

Now is then

Books & Arts

Rocket man

Books & Arts

Weigh to go, Solly

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

INSPIRED by observations here about silly comparisons, a colleague has presented Feedback with a whole book of them – "but be careful with it, it's for my Mum". The Queen Mary 2 Book of Comparisons (Cunard, ISBN 095424513X) reprints parts of The Queen Mary – a Book of Comparisons, published in 1936. So now we …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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