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29 September 2001

Issue 2310

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Whistle while you work

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Thanks for all the fish

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Pulling power

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The edge of infinity

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Small, dark and awesome

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Beyond time and space

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Hearty rats

GENE therapy has successfully treated heart failure in rats. Hearts fail when a protein that regulates calcium flow stops functioning. Roger Hajjar of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston fixed the problem in rats by replacing the gene that codes for the protein, making the rats seven times as likely to survive (Circulation, vol 104, …

News

Take a walk on the wide side

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Champignons chauds

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Crabs clean up

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First Chinese

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Sick of eating

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Heaven scent

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Technology

Caught on camera

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Technology

Your secret's safe

News

Technology

Peace of mind

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Monsters on the move

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The 'natural' way to slash diesel fumes

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On me Edison

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Cool idea

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Seek a leak

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A brush with genius

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Space science slashed

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Lingering death

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Asbestos alert

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Canada's killer export

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An unexpected ally

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One less thing to be depressed about

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A tankful of sunshine

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Scaling the nanoworld

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Sunk without trace

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Beware the ponds of Eros

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Beam me up

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The madness spreads

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Robodoc

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It's all fun and laughter for giggling girls and grunting guys

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Back to the earth

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Fertiliser blast

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Watery grave

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Picture perfect

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Prepare for Popo

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Humans

The longest search

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Humans

Hitting where it hurts

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Humans

Cutting the Taliban's lifeline

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Ban it

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Spot the stargate

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Australia stops short of a ban on therapeutic cloning

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

I WAS a Euro MP in 1976 at the time of the Friuli earthquake in northern Italy. I recall it killed more than a thousand people and I was asked why something couldn't be done to release some of the pent-up tensions in the Earth that lead to such tragedies. Reading "The quake machine" (New …

Opinion

The time, the place, the pizza

Opinion

Animal kingdom

Opinion

Empty gestures

Opinion

Features

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Whistle while you work

But there was one regular visitor whose behaviour was more puzzling. This middle-aged man carried what looked like an ordinary wooden walking cane. If he came to a cage where the inmate was close enough, he would slide his cane between the bars until its tip was beside the animal's ear. Once it had grown …

Features

Thanks for all the fish

Features

Space

Pulling power

Features

The edge of infinity

Features

Small, dark and awesome

Features

Beyond time and space

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Soap's tyranny

For Health And Beauty by Mary Lynn Stewart, Johns Hopkins University Press, £29.50, ISBN 0801864836 COSMETICS may seem to be merely a matter of frivolous fashion, but their history tells a different story, argues Mary Lynn Stewart, a historian at Simon Fraser University. Science, not just commercial interests, lies behind all those cleansing bars and …

Books & Arts

Dr Eckener's Dream Machine by Douglas Botting

Books & Arts

They'll be back

Books & Arts

Mog of ages

Books & Arts

The story so far

Books & Arts

Revolutionary measures

Books & Arts

Out in Paperback

Books & Arts

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Feedback

THE WORLD of music recently suffered a loss, which could, just possibly, be science's gain. Bass player Vanessa left New-York based band Mindless Self Indulgence—to become an astronaut, they say at www.mindlessselfindulgence.com . If you feel like balancing the flow by migrating in the opposite direction, you'll need to fit the requirements: just playing a …

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