Mind & Body: Lessons from the inferno - Every second counts when a fire breaks out. Understanding how people react when the alarm goes off may help save lives
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This week's magazine
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Mind & Body: When sex can kill
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Mind & Body: Easing the loss
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Mind & Body: Modes of mind - What have small children playing with dolls in as Edinburgh nursery got to do with Buddhism? One psychologist says she has found a link
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Mind & Body: Fear of food - Some people think eating disorders start in the brain; others that society is at fault. Either way, thet are very hard to treat.
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Mind & Body: The secret life of the nose - US researchers find unexplored territory inside one nostril.
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Mind & Body: Last gasp for smokers
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Mind & Body: Against Ageing - No one wants to end up sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything-the good news is that we may be able to hold back the tide.
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Mind & Body: Chewing over the fat
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Mind & Body: Less fat, more aggro?
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Mind & Body: The big sleep?
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Mind & Body: A name in a million - Nothing is left to chance when drugs get their names.
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Letters: Spiders from Oz
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Letters: Mystic buzz
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Feedback
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Mind & Body
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Mind & Body: Motherhood past midnight
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Letters: Must try harder
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Letters: Must try harder
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Letters: Shot in the dark
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Letters: Antarctic Games?
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Letters: Living lab
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Letters: Community dunes
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Forum: Academic Cosa Nostra - Simon Wolff finds that pressing the flesh has its payoffs.
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Thistle Diary: Testing times for physical forces - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Letters: Industry on trial
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Forum: A healthier balance of power - Funding bodies should see themselves as supporters, not prizegivers says David Budsworth.
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Review: A blot on the landscape
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Letters: Industry on trial
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Letters: Unnamed
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Letters: Numbers game
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Review: In praise of supercomputers
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Review: Early days of material man
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Review: A girdle round the earth
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Review: Squash that data, load that drive
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Computer Games: Games for the players who like to think a little bit harder. You struggle to survive in the war, the ant colony or on your own world. Build incredible machines, adbenture in space or sharpen up your psyche.
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Stop the rocket, I want to get off: It sounded glamorous, the ultimate high. But the stark reality of life as an astronaut is becoming increasingly evident to psychologists in the run-up to a mission to mars
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Life
Review: The role of technology in evolution
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All you ever wanted to know about the big bang . . .: Every week, questions about the big bang flood into the New Scientist office. So we thought it was about time to let some experts loose on the subject
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No way to treat the mind: The idea of memory-boosting pills is appealing. But we should resist the claim that there is automatically a chemical fix for all our psychological failings
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California's lousy vintage: Tiny insects wrecked the vineyards of Europe and South Africa a century ago. But the lessons were forgotten, and now California's wine producers are counting the cost
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Technology: Drug hope for kidney transplants
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Technology: Salyut launches into the West
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Technology: Don't videophone us, we'll videophone you
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Technology: Why Japanese batteries won't blow your stereo away
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Is there money in lost memories?
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Science: Homeless starlings murder their kin
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Technology: 'Winning' tactic lands Mansell in hospital
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Technology: Capturing images of Alzheimer's
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Science: Why do electric fish swim backwards?
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Science: Small waves at sea sap the wind's energy
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Science: Superconductors increase their pulling power
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Science: Asteroidal bombardment wiped out the dinosaurs
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Science: How plants prepare for the cold of night
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Science: Zooming in on the heart of the Milky Way
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Science: Warp factor shows way to Galaxy's edge
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Hardy Honduran banana fends off fungal infection
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Tough animal law could force research into exile
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Cystic fibrosis sleuth take top genome job
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Draining life from Iraq's marshes: Saddam Hussein is using an old idea to force the Marsh Arabs from their home
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Shades of Chernobyl stalk Tomsk
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Review threatens status of science in schools
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Green detergents 'foul up' Italian coastline
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Reusable rocket could linger on launch pad
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Are major projects a source of jobs?
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Uproar over energy in Philippines
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Jupiter keeps comet fragments in line
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Israel floods drained swamp to bring in tourists
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Clinton pledges 'science for democracy'
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Arctic art treasures carved in stone
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Russia owns up to sea burial for nuclear waste
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Comment: AIDS row - the real casualties
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Comment: Creating wealth
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Wellcome hits back over AIDS drug result
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