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23 May 1998

Issue 2135

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Whose finger on the button?

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Mind

Call it quits: Explaining the sunk-cost fallacy

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All-out war on the alien invader

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Hidden truths

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Mice see red for the first time

SOME lab mice are enjoying life in technicolour thanks to genetic engineering. While normal mice can perceive ultraviolet light and most of the colours we can see, they cannot see red. To extend their visual range, Michael Crognale and Samir Deeb at the University of Washington in Seattle gave a group of mice the gene …

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Fishy mystery

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Good timing

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Burster breakthrough

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The cancer threat that seeps into our homes

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All in vein

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Getting warm

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Deadly reputation

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A bigger picture

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Cleanup deal

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Nuclear revamp

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Home alone

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Real men need oestrogen

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Mistaken identity

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Popeye power for miniature machines

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Boxed in

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Smart suits

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Technology

Summer in the trenches

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Technology

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Havens of peace

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Unusual suspects

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You're so veiny

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Waxing lyrical

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Boxed in

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Hunting the mole

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Anatomy of a medical maverick

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Off target

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Star crossed

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False security

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What's killing California's sea otters?

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Technology

Double bubble

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Technology

Spinning plates

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Free for all

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Take a pinch of bacteria…

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Technology

Baby talk

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Killing fields

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Spent force

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Malaria targeted

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Return to the Moon

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Nuclear inquisition

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Dashed hopes

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Warning: cannibalism is bad for your health

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Sporty types

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Lead in the womb

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On your marks …

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Opinion

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Only way is up

IN JULY, the WHO finally gets its new director-general, Gro Harlem Brundtland. After a decade in which the UN organisation has seriously lost the plot, Norway's former prime minister will have her work cut out if she is to help it regain both authority and political clout. For more than two decades, the WHO has …

Opinion

Murderers have rights too

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Whose finger on the button?

"BESIDES taking electronic pictures, what else is an imaging chip useful for?" asks Larry O'Gorman. The answer is surprising and revolutionary. Today, imaging chips give computers a sense of vision. But with a few modifications these chips can add another dimension to a computer's sensory repertoire: touch. With this extra sense computers will be able …

Features

Mind

Call it quits: Explaining the sunk-cost fallacy

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All-out war on the alien invader

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Hidden truths

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Universal body builder

WE ARE all used to the idea that structures like buildings and boats are made of materials strengthened by fibres—take reinforced concrete and fibreglass for example. But it's easy to forget that nature had the idea first, and without fibres life itself would literally be a complete flop. While plants rely on cellulose—a fibrous carbohydrate—to …

Inside Science

Government support for science falters

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Speaking of stars

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Been there

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The science trade

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Cityscapes

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Scots' land

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Chance is a fine thing

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Collected works

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from Oxford

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Let's get rational

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A universal symbol

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Dirty deeds

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Reasons to be fearful

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Smartipants

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True lies

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Feedback

IN THIS and next week's columns, you will discover how boffins in California choose a mate, what not to wear at a beach party, and how Feedback fulfilled a lifelong ambition to become a Mexican. The responsibility for these and other revelations lies with the heady air of San Francisco, where Feedback has been spending …

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