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11 August 2001

Issue 2303

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Rainbow's bend

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US set to ban therapeutic cloning

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Westminster diary

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Rainbow's bend

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The logger of the lake

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Dead man walking

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Look who's talking

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Infinite sensation

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News

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US set to ban therapeutic cloning

PATIENTS' groups and scientists are gearing up for a fight in the wake of a US House of Representatives vote for a ban on all human cloning, including therapeutic cloning and cloning for research purposes. The bill, introduced by Republican Dave Weldon from Florida and passed by 265 votes to 162, would make any form …

News

Technology

Quantum gate plugs data leaks

News

Technology

Swarming planes

News

Technology

Bots knock the socks off city slickers

News

Give ciggies the push—and doughnuts too

News

In-flight snacks

News

One at a time

News

Expecting the worst

News

All shook up

News

Jurassic nose job

News

Technology

Sounding boards

News

Technology

Quick flicks

News

Technology

Read all about it

News

Seeds in space

News

Phantom truckers

News

Cooled customers

News

Technology

Loyal luggage

News

Waste not . . .

News

Clean me a river

News

You twist my protein, I'll twist yours

News

Chef's special

News

Honeypot for hackers

News

Unmistakable

News

Digging the dirt

News

Technology

Shock tactics

News

Caught yellow-handed

News

Going round the bend

News

Technology

Killing me softly

News

Three is the magnetic number

News

Hit the spit

News

Bishops rubbish rubbers

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Red devil returns

News

No baby booms

News

Missing in action

News

Born under a thin star

News

Race to the death

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

THE Ministry of Defence stands accused of breaking its promise to screen soldiers exposed to depleted uranium in the Gulf and Kosovo (New Scientist, 26 May, p 3) . I asked Lewis Moonie, the veterans' minister, whether the accusation was fair. Moonie admitted that in some part it was. But the MoD wants its programme …

Opinion

If only we'd listen . . .

Opinion

Against the odds

Opinion

The price of gold

Opinion

Features

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Rainbow's bend

When a beam of light in air hits another transparent material, such as a slab of glass or a pool of water, it changes direction. That's refraction, the phenomenon at the heart of most optical devices, including the human eye, and which explains why a toothbrush standing in a glass of water looks broken. The …

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The logger of the lake

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Dead man walking

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Look who's talking

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Infinite sensation

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Friezing time

Rock of Ages, Sands of Time, paintings by Barbara Page, text by Warren Allmon, University of Chicago Press, $45, ISBN 0226644790 TO SEE fossils grouped as they might be found in the ground normally involves tramping between different collections, or even different museums. Collections are separated into groups—vertebrate, invertebrate and so on. It's logical, but …

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Feedback

NOSE PICKING is a form of human behaviour that has received far too little scientific attention, but at last that neglect is being redressed. In the June issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari report on a study of nose picking in a sample of 200 adolescents from four urban …

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