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Issue 2229

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supergoo

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Monstrous mucus

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Slime scene

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The dawn of slime

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Slime

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Ooze cruise

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Vitamin C warning

Bad news for the countless health fanatics who take vitamin C: in high doses it may clog up arteries, the American Heart Association meeting in San Diego heard last week. A study of 573 seemingly healthy middle-aged men and women found that those taking 500 milligrams of vitamin C supplement per day, the equivalent of …

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Keep that smile

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Why playing ball puts teenagers in hospital

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Bug breath

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Full feeling

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On the rocks

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Size matters

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Branching out

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Moons keep Uranus's rings in order

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Unheeded warnings

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Canada for fusion

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Booze clues

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Weak spot revealed in Ebola's armour

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No way out

News

Technology

Into the abyss

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A face in the flock

News

Dead as a dodo

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Get well soon

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The spy who bugged me

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Cyborg cell

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Hooked on TV

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No hiding place

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Body blow for HIV vaccine

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Technology

Offside trap

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Technology

Alcohol free

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No great shakes

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Riding on air

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Forget modified soya, let animals eat lupins instead

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Light sleep

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Packed with danger

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Less agony to finding ecstasy

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Nowhere to hide

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Coca killer

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Good to chew

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Conflict of interest

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Oops!

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Mind numbing

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Carpets, curtains and carcinogens

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Better blood

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Technology

Recycling maggots

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Opinion

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Economical with the truth

TRUTH is often the first casualty when science is reported. In the Indian media, it seems, it is a luxury indeed. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Pune, when 3000 scientists gathered recently for the Indian Science Congress. Now Pune likes to be recognised as a city with a fine tradition of scholarship. The …

Opinion

Will to live?

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

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Cleaning up on transport

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I feel therefore I am

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Tread carefully

Opinion

Features

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supergoo

YOU PROBABLY carry home your shopping in sheets of cold slime. I don't mean to be rude. It's just that plastic carrier bags are made from a material which, when melted, is as slimy a substance as you will ever rub between finger and thumb. Most slimes are tangles of long, chainlike polymer molecules. Mucus, …

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Monstrous mucus

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Slime scene

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The dawn of slime

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Slime

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Ooze cruise

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Marvels of the millennia

This is a website printed on paper. It's elegant paper, typeset with style and clarity. All nicely edited by writer and literary agent John Brockman, many of whose clients appear among the scientific luminaries asked to name The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years. So, who chose what? And why? Freeman Dyson goes for …

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Double dose

Books & Arts

Formula One maths

Books & Arts

Ol' green eyes

Books & Arts

Lousy deaths

Books & Arts

Women's work

Books & Arts

Up in flames

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE NEWS that NASA astronauts have been conducting experiments on the shuttle to determine which sexual positions are best in conditions of zero gravity was quickly picked up on by the French news agency Agence France-Presse. Its source was French journalist and one-time aspiring astronaut Pierre Kohler, who referred to it in his recent book …

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