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3 March 2001

Issue 2280

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Thought control

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Target Earth

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Burn out

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Wild at heart

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News

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Gravity probes the hidden depths

IT COULD soon become much easier to detect underground bunkers or sinkholes, say researchers in Massachusetts. The trick is to measure variations in the gravitational field. For decades, variations in gravity have been used to ferret out underground structures. The gravitational force should be slightly weaker above a hollowed-out region, so people look for places …

News

Technology

Fight the ATM aliens

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Technology

Spare parts in orbit

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Technology

Watching the wireless

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Don't drink and ride

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Funny ha ha

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Fat heals

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Praise at last

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Stressed out

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Bottled up

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You'll never guess what

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Pushing the envelope

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Whizz-kid computer

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Frosty space dust may have seeded life

News

Making the switch

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Smooth operator

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A breath of fresh air for future Concordes

News

Molecular wiring

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Best of both worlds

News

Keep an eye on Dad

News

Better humour

News

Logging ban backfires

News

Easy does it

News

It's a breeze

News

Watch the skies

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Gentler swings

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Martian compasses

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Blown away

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Catch the wave

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Switched-off gene holds key to BSE test

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Wipeout

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Life is sweet

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No need for rash action on MMR vaccine

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Beating the love bug

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Moonstruck

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Stuck on a reef

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High-flyer deflates

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The big turn-on

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Flabby minds

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The accused

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Soothing the mind

News

Virus on the rampage

News

Why the slaughter?

News

Reprogram your body

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Humble chemical has starring role as superconductor

News

Opinion

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Hearing aid blocked

ALL babies should have their hearing routinely tested, say child health professionals. But the political system is standing in the way. Peter Baghurst, from the Public Health Unit at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, has written about the issue in the latest newsletter of the Public Health Association of Australia. He points out …

Opinion

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Taking the plunge

Opinion

Tales of the paranormal

Opinion

Sitting target

Opinion

Features

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Thought control

SAM can't quite put it into words. It's not relaxation, exactly, or concentration. He wouldn't call it meditation either, though it requires conscious effort and he sits still while he's doing it. It's just a state he puts himself into whenever he senses the aura that heralds an epileptic fit. And it seems to work. …

Features

Target Earth

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Burn out

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Wild at heart

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Spacefaring by Albert Harrison

Spacefaring by Albert Harrison, University of California Press, £18.50, ISBN 0520224531 I LIKE to think I know a reasonable amount about the physics, maths and mechanics of space flight. What I know considerably less about is the psychological side of space, which is why I found Albert Harrison's Spacefaring fascinating. In the pioneering years of …

Books & Arts

What's on Your Mind?

Books & Arts

A Nobel Life

Books & Arts

How was Your Valentine's Day?

Books & Arts

When meat is murder

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It's all Meme, Meme, Meme

Books & Arts

Bestsellers

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Regulars

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Feedback

IS THERE nothing left in this world that can't be patented, copyrighted or trademarked? The latest move in the stampede to slap intellectual property rights on everything that exists is the attempt to register trademarks on words that are already in everyday use. For example, a California company called Fandom has applied to the US …

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