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6 March 2004

Issue 2437

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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.

Einstein's Rio requiem

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Genomes don't play dice

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Dark side of the sun

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The master switch

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News

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Last drink fools forensic test

A STIFF drink before you meet your maker might confuse police investigating your death, experiments on pigs suggest. Finding out when someone died can be difficult if the body has lain undiscovered for some time. Forensic scientists often use maggots found on a corpse as a guide, as different fly species lay their eggs at …

News

Suntan lotion primes the skin's defences

News

Technology

Compact fuel cells may oust feeble batteries

News

DNA chip will catch beefed up chicken

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Painkiller linked to rise in overdose deaths

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Gold fingerprint to foil forgers

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Vestige of vanished oceans will reveal Earth-like planets

News

Bizarre dinos of the deep freeze

News

Pig cell hope for diabetes

News

Tumour fighter

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What a diamond a day makes

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Soundbites

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Solar system's damp start written in asteroid's rock

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Saturn shines in Cassini's view

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Thyroid radiation doses are 'much too high'

News

Medical editors to take tougher line

News

We hear that…

News

At last, a ringside seat for viewing birth of planets

News

Mystery particle floats in from deep space

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Hope for inherited kidney disease

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60 Seconds

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Beware the ecotourist

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Hunting jellies

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Pop goes fusion?

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Rabies shots help rare dog

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Rosetta blasts off at last

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Maize 'allergy' raises hackles

News

Grief on the reef

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Galileo settled

News

Technology

Aerial view

News

Technology

Straight and level

News

Technology

Dry-cleaned blood

News

Technology

Computer, print me a fuel pump

News

Technology

The garden where perfect software grows

News

Technology

Fighting fire with a steam machine

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Privacy protector is also a boon for shoplifters

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Technology

Cheap 3D scanner coming soon to a desktop near you

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Opinion

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In the dark

EFFECTIVE, safe and non-addictive: that is how the new generation of antidepressants was billed in the early days. Now these drugs are the focus of a fierce dispute. Some patients and doctors claim they are of questionable efficacy and can induce suicidal thoughts. Advocates, including the companies that make them, insist these medicines have helped …

Opinion

All above board

Opinion

Fun for people, hell for animals

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

In the thrall of the Andes

Opinion

Features

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Einstein's Rio requiem

Albert Einstein died in 1955. But, arguably, he died as a scientist three decades earlier. For it was then that the genie he let out of the bottle in 1905 finally escaped from his control. The genie was the "photon", the bullet-like particle that Einstein invented to explain how light was able to knock electrons …

Features

Genomes don't play dice

Features

Dark side of the sun

Features

The master switch

Features

More

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Forever young

Good ideas never go away, it seems human adulthood is remarkable for its playfulness. No matter how advanced the technology, gadgets are, after all, just grown-ups' toys. Back in the 1960s Dutch historiographer John Huizinga's book Homo ludens created a storm of interest. Now Clive Bromhall's The Eternal Child (Ebury/Random House, £7.99) tries to pinpoint …

Books & Arts

Back in the shops

Books & Arts

Get out your waders

Books & Arts

Squirm factor

Books & Arts

A man of numbers

Books & Arts

Island treasures

Books & Arts

New takes on the fossil world

Books & Arts

Dream weaver

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THANKS to all the readers who have written in to tell us that, following our own account of playing the game of Pubmed whacking (21 February) , they have had a go at it too – despite their worries that they were being sad (never!) and that they were wasting their time (er – what …

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