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31 January 2004

Issue 2432

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In the realm of your senses

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News

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Space

Can we mine the Moon?

The prospect of a permanent lunar base has certainly excited astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a veteran of the Apollo 17 mission. Nowadays Schmitt is a geologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and chairman of Interlune Intermars which raises money to develop lunar mining. President Bush's announcement included references to the moon's "abundant resources", but …

News

Space

Destination Mars

News

Space

The loneliest lab

News

Technology

The Moon and Mars

News

Space

In Apollo's footsteps

News

Technology

Irritating tattoos

News

Technology

Outlook good for home forecasting

News

Molecular motor harnessed by magnetic field

News

Cancer comes to a watery end

News

Oldest pollution from Inuit whale waste

News

Technology

Clever antennas stay connected

News

Technology

Nanotech spy eyes life inside the cell

News

Technology

Automatic back-up

News

Technology

Touch screen to adjust

News

Technology

'Green' calculator counts cost of building designs

News

Technology

A cleaner way to drain oil wells to the last drop

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Female gulls eject old semen for fresh batch

News

Sperm goes GM

News

Virus makes honeybees mean

News

Spot the atom

News

Humans and Neanderthals had separate evolutionary pathways

News

It's the little things that get to you

News

'Clean' diesel engines dirtier than gas guzzlers

News

Stalling moon probe reboots

News

Antimatter results baffle rival teams

News

Tea strainer in the neck 'stops strokes'

News

Soundbites

News

Bird flu outbreak started a year ago

News

Brain lab ditched

News

Launch landlord thinks big

News

Bird flu warning

News

The ones that will get away

News

First law of theft

News

Latest images reveal Red Planet's watery past

News

Rover hits jackpot in Martian bedrock

News

Nano-economies

News

60 Seconds

News

Forensic evidence stands accused

News

Save the scope!

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

ASK any number of consumer and public health groups and they will say that veterinary scientists in the US have been asleep at the wheel. For years, the advocates have urged the Department of Agriculture to do what Europe, and especially the UK, does: keep "downers" – sick or lame cattle – out of human …

Opinion

For want of a word

Opinion

Beam me up? No need to!

Opinion

Space

Conspiracy theorists see red on Mars

Opinion

The great flu cover-up

Opinion

No defence

Opinion

Features

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In the realm of your senses

IT'S a classic philosophical conundrum: how does my perception of the world differ from yours? Take a red rose, for example. We can probably agree it's red rather than blue, but what exactly is "red", and do I see the same red as you? And what about the distinctive smell – is my sense of …

Features

More

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Social engineer

Infamous as the star criminal hacker, Kevin Mitnick had to re-engineer his life when he was banned from access to computers (now lifted). Poacher turned game keeper, he now makes his living as an information security specialist. Written with William Simon, Mitnick's The Art of Deception (Wiley, £9.99/$16.95) points out the real flaws in security …

Books & Arts

Unforgettable

Books & Arts

Well found

Books & Arts

Bunny loops the loop

Books & Arts

Go, Jerry

Books & Arts

Sea greens

Books & Arts

Great worm turn

Books & Arts

The high frontier again

Books & Arts

Sunquakes by J. B. Zirker

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

AT A time when the Hutton enquiry into the death of British government scientist David Kelly is very much in the public eye, Feedback was intrigued to be reminded that Kelly co-wrote a letter about anthrax that was published in Â鶹´«Ã½ back in 1986. What's more, reader Adrian Smith informs us that the letter …

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Letters

Regulars

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