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6 October 2001

Issue 2311

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Leap of faith

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Driven to extremes

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Technology

Small visions, grand designs

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Silver screen saver

Hollywood wants cinemas to use huge video projectors to save the cost of distributing prints of its movies around the world. Past attempts relied on bouncing coloured laser beams off mirrors, but they failed because the laser did not reproduce natural colours and had to be dangerously intense. Infineon Technologies of Munich thinks it has …

News

Technology

One at a time, please

News

Technology

Alarm on the roads

News

Spying on your heart

News

Plastic gives holey fibres a new lease of life

News

Secrets of the plague

News

Quantum leap

News

The pain of being a caffeine freak

News

Metal mouth

News

Baby titans

News

Total recall

News

How to snarf with the geeks

News

Not so super glue

News

Cancer catcher

News

Plankton power

News

Cooled by the Sun

News

Guardian angels

News

Giant bowling pin knocks astronomers sideways

News

Enjoy your meal

News

Carry on regardless

News

Hide and seek

News

Quantum computing takes a step in from the cold

News

Beating the ban

News

A way forward

News

Technology

A hundred years of rubbish

News

Technology

Cause for alarm

News

Technology

They may be small but they have a big charge

News

Technology

Perfect roast

News

Antibodies on the cob

News

Hell's kitchen

News

Swim for it!

News

Dolly helps the mouflons

News

Compensation for vCJD

News

Look for the cluster

News

Can't see the wood

News

One month to save a nation

News

Worse than useless

News

Letter from Quetta

News

Invisible enemies

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

FRIENDS tell me they were alarmed by the Swedish findings that pregnant women taking folic acid supplements to cut the risk of birth defects may be more likely to have twins. What's more, according to New Scientist, twins have an increased risk of developing birth defects (28 July, p 3 and p 7) . The …

Opinion

Damage limitation

Opinion

Don't bomb the roads

Opinion

Features

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Leap of faith

SIX days a week it's just an ordinary room in an ordinary London hospital. But on Tuesdays it becomes a place of nightmares. This is the National Prion Clinic at St Mary's Hospital, the heart of Britain's efforts to solve its CJD problem. Patients are referred here from hospitals in their home town and spend …

Features

Driven to extremes

Features

Technology

Small visions, grand designs

Features

More

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Short sighted

Lessons from a Living Cell: The limits of reductionism by Stephen Rothman, McGraw-Hill, £18.99, ISBN 0071378200 STEPHEN Rothman has spent thirty years trying to get cell biologists to accept his theory for the transmission of cellular proteins across the cell wall over the prevailing theory known as the vesicle model. He hasn't succeeded yet, but …

Books & Arts

Parallel pasts

Books & Arts

Of sausages and steaks

Books & Arts

In my view

Books & Arts

Monkey puzzle

Books & Arts

Out there

Books & Arts

God in science

Books & Arts

Distant fossils

Books & Arts

Sum of its parts

Books & Arts

A lot of water out there

Books & Arts

University challenge

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ODDLY ENOUGH , quite a number of readers persist in reading emotion into factual signs—as in "this door is alarmed" (22 September). Following the medical tradition that two cases a syndrome make, and that everyone feels much better when you repeat their symptoms back to them in cod-Greek, we bring you "semiopathy". You can translate …

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