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21 February 2004

Issue 2435

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Last days of the locust

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The great inventors

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What makes us human

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Flash and burn

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Collapsible space telescope

The US Air Force lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is patenting a new way of designing folding parabolic mirrors for space telescopes (US 2003/223135.) The new mirror can be collapsed for launch, and unpacked and expanded at its destination. To make the mirror, water is spun rapidly in a vertical cylinder to form a concave …

News

Technology

Well, it doesn't look like you…

News

Technology

Car thieves get a spoke in the wheel

News

Technology

Hush hour on the highway

News

Technology

Chips to ease Microsoft's big security nightmare

News

Technology

Farewell, noxious TV ads

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Can bio-booze fuel the hydrogen economy?

News

Technology

Click here to keep your info private

News

Fallen grains inspired first farmers

News

Eggs on the go

News

Hair trigger for rat's whiskers

News

A head for balls can be a pain in the neck

News

The explosive evidence that just won't wash away

News

Soil bugs keep plants in check

News

Why there's always room for a few extra chocs

News

Black hole spotted gobbling up a star

News

Our genome 'reads' junk as well as genes

News

US told to round up 'mad cows'

News

Wrong diagnoses are killing patients

News

Riddle of the rodents points to Egyptian origin for ancient plague

News

Patent battle

News

60 Seconds

News

Cloned cells today. Where tomorrow?

News

Nasal spray may protect against future flu strains

News

US poised to save vulnerable oceans

News

Cell suicide is behind prenatal brain damage

News

Creationism back in the classroom

News

Bush's nuke plan

News

Flu blame game

News

Wet lesotho has not a drop to drink

News

Forest in peril

News

Beagle 2 inquiry

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

CHEAP eco-friendly alternatives to pesticides are much needed and greatly to be encouraged. I asked Gareth Thomas, junior minister for international development, for his views on recent biopesticide research at the University of Greenwich (Â鶹´«Ã½, 13 December 2003, p 12) . Its aim is to control plagues of the African army worm caterpillar in …

Opinion

Sitting comfortably?

Opinion

The moral imperative for human cloning

Opinion

Beyond clones

Opinion

Features

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Last days of the locust

In the summer of 1873, black clouds drifted east from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains towards the newly settled farms of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. The pioneer families had no warning: the sky went dark at midday, the air filled with a sound like a thousand scissors. Then the clouds fragmented and …

Features

The great inventors

Features

What makes us human

Features

Flash and burn

Features

More

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Gaia may not save us

Global Change and the Earth System by W. Steffen and others, Springer-Verlag, £77/$129, ISBN 3540408002 Reviewed by Fred Pearce THERE are two sorts of concern for the environment. There is all that touchy-feely stuff about saving cuddly animals, and there is saving the planet from humanity's mega-depredations. Earth-system science deals with the latter. It deals …

Books & Arts

It was a very bad year

Books & Arts

Anoraks need not apply

Careers

Lawrence Krauss

Books & Arts

In memoriam

Books & Arts

Cook's travel tales

Books & Arts

A. C. Grayling

Books & Arts

Maya's machiavelli

Books & Arts

Time to head south

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

AS a hint of spring starts to penetrate the bleakness of the northern winter, strange creatures emerge blinking into the sunlight, making odd noises. And, if you are a writer on medical issues, even stranger things clamber into your email inbox. "Every April," one of these vernal harbingers proclaims, "a self-serving advocacy group masquerading as …

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