Solving the doctor's dilemma?: The medieval art of argument by 'casuistry' is making a comeback in the US. The new casuists are avoiding abstractions and focusing on real situations
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This week's magazine
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Nuclear matter in a spin: Spinning pulsars and atomic nuclei undergo a momentary 'quake' that reveals the innermost secrets of their superfluid structure
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Faces from the past: Evidence from fossils on the way our faces evolved gives new clues to the ancestry of modern humans and apes. We may be more ape-like than we think
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The taste of tea: What's in a cup of tea?
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How chips build better lasers: Microchips packed with lasers operating at different wavelengths will improve optical computing and communications, although no one is quite sure how
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Otze: the man who came in from the cold - For nearly three months, scientists have waited patiently to examine the body of a man preserved in ice for four millennia. By the end of January their wait should be over
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Table of contents
News
Technology
Technology: Pendulum swings into action against lightning
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Science: Does overgrazing make the world warmer?
News
Technology
Technology: Red tape leaves radar reflectors all at sea
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Science: Why the youngest stars get into a spin
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Science: Pinatubo cooling will test greenhouse models
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Science: Improved detector fails to find missing neutrinos
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Science: How drug defeats malaria parasite
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Science: Will Pacific hot spots wreak havoc with weather?
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Science: 'Molecular thermometer' found in common bacteria
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Korea signs up
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New vistas for video
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Wine peril
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Long-lived reactors
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Contracts stretched
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Drugs after surgery help defeat breast cancer
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Zoo managers narrowly escape the sack
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Officials hold back report on endangered reserve
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Ban on westerners as German science goes east
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Halfway houses could help British industry
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HIV funds dry up
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BTG bidders
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Back to the future with General Motors
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Minsk accord sets structure for science
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Boom time for biotechnology
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Fatal explosion closes cold fusion laboratory
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Satellite setback for European TV standard
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Mystery of Florida's dying coral
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Japan rockets into the space business
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Europe battles over industrial R&D
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Wrong flight
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Opinion
Features
Solving the doctor's dilemma?: The medieval art of argument by 'casuistry' is making a comeback in the US. The new casuists are avoiding abstractions and focusing on real situations
Features
Nuclear matter in a spin: Spinning pulsars and atomic nuclei undergo a momentary 'quake' that reveals the innermost secrets of their superfluid structure
Features
Faces from the past: Evidence from fossils on the way our faces evolved gives new clues to the ancestry of modern humans and apes. We may be more ape-like than we think
Features
The taste of tea: What's in a cup of tea?
Features
How chips build better lasers: Microchips packed with lasers operating at different wavelengths will improve optical computing and communications, although no one is quite sure how
Features
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Forum: Pile 'em high in the deltas - Derek Ager finds that it can be easier to die than be buried
Forum
Forum: True life beyond the screen - Jeremy Burgess finds little point in being a virtual realist
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Forum: The importance of being useless - Arturo Sangalli advocates the case for irrelevant research
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Thistle Diary: Go East, young engineer - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Review: A physicist's literary legacy
Books & Arts
Earth
Forum: Europe discovers the debt-for-nature swap
Forum
Review: History that counts
Books & Arts
Review: Particles and things
Books & Arts
Review: Sane inconsistency in a mad world
Books & Arts
Review: The question of real art
Books & Arts
Review: A space odyssey for children
Books & Arts
Review: An exhilarating ride through embryology
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