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25 August 2001

Issue 2305

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Electric eye

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The beat goes on

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Nuclear revival?

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Electric eye

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The shape of things to come

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Life on the edge

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Great balls of fire

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The beat goes on

HEARTS can now be kept beating outside the body for nearly two days. The portable device that keeps them alive promises to buy precious time for transporting organs and preparing for transplant operations. At the moment, donated organs are kept in an icebox while they are being transported. A heart only survives for four to …

News

Slippery customer

News

Brain drain

News

They're all eyes

News

Tough times

News

Born to make you happy

News

Invisible? No problem

News

Chaos rules

News

How to melt a heart of ice

News

Cat HIV jumps species

News

Finding fault

News

Fighting fear

News

Something nasty brewing in the bog

News

Nukes in the basement

News

Choose any booze

News

Spicy chicken

News

Waste not, want not

News

The trouble with tips

News

A clean slate

News

Wild rovers

News

Crabby homeowners

News

Technology

The curtain rises on an artful display

News

Technology

True to light

News

Technology

Vincent gets snappy

News

Technology

White fantastic

News

Safe to drink

News

In space, no one can hear you snore

News

Almost like home

News

Think yourself better

News

Robogater on patrol

News

Doctors prescribe a stab in the heart

News

Technology

Douse the flames

News

Technology

Chef's special

News

Technology

Go right, I mean left

News

Last lap

News

Wreathed in smoke

News

Our planet, our selves

News

Estuary soup

News

Scene saver

News

The unclonables

News

Ground control

News

Opinion

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Nuclear revival?

FOR the home that has everything, how about a mini nuclear reactor? Small enough to fit in the basement and needing a top-up with uranium only once every 10 years, it will eliminate greenhouse gas emissions along with worries about power cuts. It sounds wonderfully retro—something from the days when researchers talked confidently of nuclear-powered …

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Washington Diary

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Principia Mathematica III

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It's me again

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The blame game

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Electric eye

YELLOW and black blobs streak past me with centimetres to spare, careering about with an effortless precision that would shame even the most daring of stunt pilots. One makes a grazing landing on my head, before buzzing away, doing a back flip and landing on the ceiling. Another singles out my nose, hovers within a …

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The shape of things to come

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From mice to men

Human Trials: Scientists, investors, and patients in the quest for a cure by Susan Quinn, Perseus, £18.99, ISBN 0738201820 DO READ this modern American tale of one man's quest for a cure for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. It is bejewelled with insights into the lives of patients, researchers, and businessmen—but is largely a …

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The Last Word

Magnificent man Question : I read in the newspapers the story of a Californian man who attached a number of weather balloons to his lawn chair and didn't come down for some time. How much helium or hydrogen would you need to lift an average adult off the ground? And how big a balloon would …

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