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13 March 2004

Issue 2438

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Lady of longitude

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Crabs in space

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Opposites detract

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On the edge of the known world

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The power of belief

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Trick of the net fends off hackers

HACKER attacks designed to bring down websites for days or weeks on end may have met their match, if an idea being patented by IBM can be made to work. In what is called a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the hacker infects a large number of PCs with a virus that at a …

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Twin cameras let you look caller in the eye

News

Technology

Nanoscale foam comes out in the wash

News

Technology

WAR's a buzz for robot rambos

News

Technology

Reflecting on a better TV set

News

Technology

Making DVDs see red

News

Technology

Internet fuels boom in ID theft

News

Technology

The wacky races

News

Environment

Primate brains are just as special as ours

News

Technology

Plugging into sewage power

News

Click on the left to improve your posture

News

Uranus's magnetic field skates on thin ice

News

Wired up the quantum way

News

Why chameleon's lick is so speedy

News

Eggs to order

News

Mystery virus holds off AIDS

News

Birds in decline around the globe

News

World's oldest fresh water flows beneath the Sahara's sands

News

Case clinched for wet Mars

News

Gene trawl reveals thousands of species in every bucket of seawater

News

Stretchy strings make 'fuzzy' black hole give up its secrets

News

A trap for toxic metal

News

Canopy trees taking over

News

Soundbites

News

Breaking the rules on artificial blood

News

Post-mortem drug test errors are increasing

News

A modified yes

News

60 Seconds

News

Bite-mark evidence can leave a false impression

News

Vaccine autism link retracted

News

Spotted Beagle?

News

Stem cells blocked

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Where the bison can't roam

News

Wild flocks dodge bird flu blame

News

Body part scandal

News

Opinion

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A magnificent obsession

Everyone who studies infectious disease knows Donald Ainslie Henderson as "DA". He studied medicine at the University of Rochester in the 1950s but found his niche in epidemiology when he took a job at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia, now the Centers for Disease Control, to fulfil his mandatory military service. After fighting …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

It's a meat market

Opinion

Ready, steady, grow

Opinion

When science meets the paranormal

Opinion

Features

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Lady of longitude

Mary Edwards sat down at the kitchen table, picked up her quill and began a long series of sums. Every few minutes, she stopped, flicked open a book of tables and began to run her finger down the columns until she reached the figure she needed for the next step in her calculation. Over and …

Features

Crabs in space

Features

Opposites detract

Features

On the edge of the known world

Features

The power of belief

Features

More

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More than mere mice with wings

Bat Ecology edited by Thomas H. Kunz and M. Brock Fenton, University of Chicago Press, £38.50/$55, ISBN 0226462064 BATS are the most diverse of all mammalian orders, comprising over 1000 of the recognised total of 9000-plus species. Here in the 15 chapters of Bat Ecology, Thomas Kunz and Brock Fenton present the distilled wisdom of …

Books & Arts

A Clone of Your Own? by Arlene Judith Klotzko

Books & Arts

Cometography: A catalog of comets, volume 2: 1800 – 1899 by Gary W. Kronk

Books & Arts

Crocodile Geoffroy

Books & Arts

Cosmic starters

Books & Arts

Lights out, please

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Berkeley

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

RECENTLY we noted the wit and wisdom that occasionally makes a fleeting appearance on laboratory whiteboards, only to be scrubbed off again by diligent cleaners (10 January) . We appealed to readers to supply examples so that we could save them for posterity. Here are some of the results. Meredith Harron's favourite was in the …

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