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Issue 2333

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The flute-maker's fiddle

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The flute-maker's fiddle

Features

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You are what you write

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Cat-in-the-box

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Winning streak

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Fantastic voyager

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Yo ho ho

RUM as good as the best premium aged spirit can now be made cheaply, without having to leave it to mature for years. The rich flavours produced during ageing in wooden casks can be generated artificially in as little as 10 days say José Quesada Granados and his team at the University of Granada in …

News

Squirrel killer

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Technology

Wrist phone

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Arctic jerks send North Pole on a walkabout

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My cousin, the dodo

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Painless spice

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Bedroom secrets

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No time to recover

News

Send me your samples

News

No link to leukaemia?

News

Tomb raiders

News

Look, no cracks

News

Grin and bear it

News

Do you copy?

News

After the thaw

News

Line 'em up

News

Wrapping a liquid in a liquid helps the medicine go down

News

Technology

Talking bottle

News

Technology

The perfect pickup

News

Bang on target

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No special treatment for our Sun

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Masters of chaos

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Keep your eyes peeled

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Love, not war

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Are doctors too free with Prozac?

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Death in the jungle

News

Health

Rude health

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AIDS vaccine trial is abandoned by the US

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Quality of life

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Oasis on the red planet

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Pee on a chip

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Dinos of a feather

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Hello there

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Ram romance

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Big city killer

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Nuclear tests cancer toll

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The war on weed

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Heat flows in all directions… doesn't it?

News

Total meltdown

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Was I alive?

News

Bursting with energy

News

Opinion

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Westminister diary

THE energy tax is almost here. From April, British businesses will be liable for the Climate Change Levy (CCL), a tax that adds about 15 per cent to typical energy bills. However, many heavy energy users are eligible to join a discount scheme. Under these agreements, businesses that accept and meet targets to reduce their …

Opinion

The patient's revenge

Opinion

Science's racist shame

Opinion

Shamefully white

Opinion

One hell of a claim

Opinion

Features

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The flute-maker's fiddle

Annie Watt liked things neat and tidy. So when she and her husband moved into their brand new house in Birmingham, she put her foot down. James Watt might be famous now but he wasn't going to clutter up her home with his collection of tools, instruments and assorted bits of junk. If he insisted …

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You are what you write

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Cat-in-the-box

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Winning streak

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Fantastic voyager

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Lessons from lemurs

The Monkey in the Mirror by Ian Tattersall, Harcourt Brace, $25, ISBN 0151005206 MEMORIES, good and bad, lie dormant in our minds until something triggers their recall. For me, a disagreeable memory from my schooldays is triggered by a single word, "essay". It meant finding the next clean page in my book and copying a …

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ANYONE who feels their sex life has become a bit boring lately can take heart. Social scientists are getting on top of the problem. "Mundane sex" is the theme of the latest issue of the Journal of Mundane Behaviour, the sociology journal devoted to the science of the ordinary. It seems that mundane sex is …

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