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7 February 2004

Issue 2433

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An island of no importance

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The ghost in the cosmos

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The gene chronicles

Features
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An aspirin a day…

Features

Table of contents

News

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Rogue star smashed up the solar system

A ROGUE star may have ploughed through our solar system in the distant past. It would have shaken up the outer reaches and could explain the peculiar properties of the icy bodies which orbit in the Kuiper belt. These balls of ice, up to a few thousand kilometres across, inhabit the region between Uranus and …

News

Glimpse into a warmer world

News

Fingernails have the strength of hooves

News

A brand-new way to break nitrogen's bonds

News

Technology

The highway at the end of the world

News

Technology

The face fits …

News

Technology

It knows where you are

News

Technology

Spam-busters sort out the fakes

News

Technology

Triangular trick turns crystal into giant store

News

Technology

Talking texts

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Tourist telescope takes you back to the past

News

Technology

Smog-busting paint will be a breath of fresh air

News

Technology

Instant switching keeps calls secret

News

Toxic brew engulfs Namibia's fisheries

News

Butterflies plumb the depths of blackness with a trick of the light

News

'Give livestock the omega-3 gene'

News

No phone risk

News

Chemical switch lets bugs shine

News

Mammoth footprints track their extinction

News

Technology

Can nanopulses heal?

News

60 Seconds

News

Russia revives epic river plan

News

Mars detective story

News

Omega-3 might help diabetics

News

More human cases as bird flu spreads

News

Mercury's magnetic tale

News

Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?

News

States of equality

News

Fusion bomb fear

News

Monsanto failure

News

Wildlife loses out in ruling on Belize dam

News

With just a hint of transgenes…

News

Greens vs big oil

News

The worm that turned nasty

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

AIRPORT expansion has become a very hot issue. Airlines are major carbon dioxide emitters, so it is highly appropriate that we know just what subsidy they get when the aviation kerosene they use is not taxed. I asked Treasury ministers to say what they estimate to be the cost of not taxing this fuel in …

Opinion

Into Africa

Opinion

Don't ban the bomb

Opinion

Truth and consequences

Opinion

Features

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An island of no importance

This is a story of two far-flung relics of the British Empire, two tiny dots in an ocean. It is a story of how saving one of them, in the name of science, wrecked the lives of citizens on the other, and of a scientist with deep regrets about his role in the tragedy. And …

Features

The ghost in the cosmos

Features

The gene chronicles

Features

An aspirin a day…

Features

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Taking the high road

IN SCOTLAND, Chris Hillier is a new kind of scientist, and precisely the kind its government, the Scottish Executive, would like to see more of. He has managed to turn his research ideas into commercial realities without having to leave Scottish soil. In just a few years Hillier and his colleagues have turned his technique …

Careers

Take my word for it

Books & Arts

Novelty values

Books & Arts

Smells like pioneer spirit

Books & Arts

Deep impact

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Melbourne

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

TO BARK, or not to bark? That is the question posed by the latest Expert Verdict catalogue, which offers two contradictory products. The first is a device that sends an ultrasonic signal as a deterrent to barking dogs. "Bark Free works both indoors and out in a 25' range, so you can use it to …

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