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14 February 2004

Issue 2434

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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.

Cosmic birth rite

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Pinnipeds on parade

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Humans

Dumped!

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Do fruit flies dream of electric bananas?

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News

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Technology

Don't forget your passpictures

Computer passwords would be more secure if they were a succession of pictures rather than a sequence of letters and numbers, argue three inventors from Redmond, Washington (USpatent application 2004/10721). When a user logs on, their software displays an array of thumbnail images, including pictures of, say, famous places, playing cards and flowers. The user …

News

Technology

Microwave stress monitors

News

Technology

Sliced-and-diced movies

News

Technology

Be a power broker in your own home

News

Technology

Robot, make thyself

News

Technology

Blue laser breakthrough

News

Technology

Spontaneous networks will speed net access

News

Technology

Lies, damned lies and phone conversations

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Health

Unsafe injections not a major cause of HIV in Africa

News

Where once shark bit men, man bites shark

News

Ambushing addiction on the brain's 'pleasure pathway'

News

Cracking the key to 1918 flu virus

News

Menacing males

News

Gimme shelter

News

Sharks line up to hunt the kraken

News

Our best glimpse yet into an alien atmosphere

News

New thinking on ops for premature babies

News

Booze tests tell all about our drinking

News

What killed Paranthropus?

News

Life could be tough on acid Europa

News

Veil lifts on hidden forests of the peaks

News

Minute master builders get gold into shape

News

Mars up close

News

Earliest ever insect fossil springs winged surprise

News

Soundbites

News

Court rules 'Ancient One' can be studied

News

Crop blocked

News

Ricin hunt is on

News

Space fright

News

Iraq's neglected crisis

News

60 Seconds

News

Can we ever trust e-voting?

News

FBI must bite forensic Bullet

News

Herbal blues

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

HAZARDOUS chemicals kill or cause illness in thousands of people each year. Developing countries in particular often become conduits for hazardous substances that are banned elsewhere. It is good then that the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC) comes into force on 24 February. This requires an exporting country to notify an importing country …

Opinion

The rabbi's dilemma

Opinion

That's not all, folks

Opinion

Show ancient bones the proper respect

Opinion

E-voting doesn't add up

Opinion

The joy of physics

Opinion

Features

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Cosmic birth rite

IN the last few years, astronomers have found that all the ordinary matter we are familiar with is only a trace component of a cosmos dominated by "dark matter" of an unknown form, and even more abundant and mysterious "dark energy". Hence, it appears we are not even made of the main ingredients of this …

Features

Pinnipeds on parade

Features

Humans

Dumped!

Features

Do fruit flies dream of electric bananas?

Features

More

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Atom heart father

The Fly in the Cathedral by Brian Cathcart, Viking/Penguin, £14.99, ISBN 0670883212 THIS is the story of the men who smashed apart the atom. The history books record the names of only John Cockroft (above, left) and Ernest Walton (above, right), but there was a third man: Ernest Rutherford (above, centre), arguably the greatest experimental …

Books & Arts

Eye and I

Books & Arts

Keeps your insides in

Books & Arts

No faint dams

Books & Arts

Charming or what?

Books & Arts

The word pilchard

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

A DISGRUNTLED Â鶹´«Ã½ space correspondent asks: if they can put a rover on Mars, why can't they put a listing on the internet? As he points out, it has been a month of triumph for NASA, after a year spent reeling from the loss of the shuttle Columbia and the unflattering investigation that followed. …

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Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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