Issue 2336 | Magazine cover date: 30 March 2002

30 March 2002

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Fixed up

Features

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First words

Features

Hunting the higgs

Features

News

Budding cyborg

Kevin Warwick, the University of Reading's would-be cyborg, has had another implant surgically placed in his arm. Three years ago, he had a temporary implant that allowed his office to track his position. With his new one, scientists will record electrical signals from an array of 100 silicon needles that push into the median nerve …

News

If it blushes, it's anthrax

News

These walls disintegrate before your very eyes

News

Gone with the wind

News

Technology

Gills go underground

News

Technology

I'm not lost

News

Technology

Pee at the target, dear

News

Not-so-pacific ocean

News

Ants' food fight

News

Gambolling gulls

News

Way out planets

News

Sharp eye for prey

News

Hormones on the menu

News

The art of noise

News

Mobile sofa anyone?

News

Poetic licence

News

Deadly drizzle

News

Dust-up in the ring

News

Body builders

News

It's not all downhill

News

Hotting up

News

Mystery pup killer

News

Heroin handout

News

Technology

Quantum dilemma

News

Own goal

News

The bigger you are, the harder you fall

News

Would you want to know?

News

Get up and goo

News

Phone chips could provide instant warning of bioattacks

News

Drippy chips

News

Sing out sister

News

Chemical cocktails make a potent mix

News

Fat chance

News

Plane's chute fails

News

TB campaign pays off

News

HIV risk from bush meat

News

Call of the wild?

News

Survival of the druggies

News

It's started...

News

Designer animals made easy

News

Catch-22

News

Opinion

Westminister diary

PRESIDENT Bush came to Washington as the chosen son of the state of Texas. For those who have never watched American television programmes about Texas (there was a time when nothing else seemed to be on) it is important to note that it is still oil country. Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, have both …

Opinion

Mad, bad or dangerous to know?

Opinion

Power of the wild

Opinion

Location, location, location

Opinion

Features

Fixed up

PAY A visit to William Shanahan's clinic in central London and you may see some strange goings-on. He hands out heroin to junkies. Shanahan is one of a small number of doctors in Britain who hold a licence to prescribe heroin to state-registered addicts. In his experience it's the best way to deal with the …

Features

Starship troupers

Features

First words

Features

Hunting the higgs

Features

Darkness on wednesday

More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels by Jean Meeus, Willmann-Bell Inc, Richmond, Virginia, $24.95, ISBN 0943396743 ACCORDING to the newspapers, the full Moon on 27 February was the brightest of the year. Not so, says Belgian number buff Jean Meeus. If you take into account all effects that come into play, the 28 January full Moon was …

Books & Arts

No holds barred

Books & Arts

The Creation of Psychopharmacology by David Healy

Books & Arts

America's attic

Books & Arts

China rhino

Books & Arts

National Geographic Atlas of the Ocean: The Deep Frontier by Sylvia A. Earle

Books & Arts

Kim Sterelny

Books & Arts

Clifford pickover

Books & Arts

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Feedback

OUR OLD friends at Microsoft have been launching the Xbox games system round the world this month, following last November's launch in the US. As well as games, the console can play music CDs and movie DVDs. But some users have found it scratches their discs. So we asked Microsoft why. The official line, which …

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30 March 2002

On the cover

Fixed up

Starship troupers

First words

Hunting the higgs

Table of contents

News

Budding cyborg

If it blushes, it's anthrax

These walls disintegrate before your very eyes

Gone with the wind

Technology

Gills go underground

Technology

I'm not lost

Technology

Pee at the target, dear

Not-so-pacific ocean

Ants' food fight

Gambolling gulls

Way out planets

Sharp eye for prey

Hormones on the menu

The art of noise

Mobile sofa anyone?

Poetic licence

Deadly drizzle

Dust-up in the ring

Body builders

It's not all downhill

Hotting up

Mystery pup killer

Heroin handout

Technology

Quantum dilemma

Own goal

The bigger you are, the harder you fall

Would you want to know?

Get up and goo

Phone chips could provide instant warning of bioattacks

Drippy chips

Sing out sister

Chemical cocktails make a potent mix

Fat chance

Plane's chute fails

TB campaign pays off

HIV risk from bush meat

Call of the wild?

Survival of the druggies

It's started...

Designer animals made easy

Catch-22

Opinion

Westminister diary

Mad, bad or dangerous to know?

Power of the wild

Location, location, location

Features

Fixed up

Starship troupers

First words

Hunting the higgs

More

Darkness on wednesday

No holds barred

The Creation of Psychopharmacology by David Healy

America's attic

China rhino

National Geographic Atlas of the Ocean: The Deep Frontier by Sylvia A. Earle

Kim Sterelny

Clifford pickover

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

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