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11 May 2002

Issue 2342

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Blinding flash

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News

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Technology

Ford launches rattle battle

Taking a brand new car out on the road only to discover it has an inexplicable rattle can be infuriating. So Ford has worked out how to design cars that are guaranteed not to rattle when they roll off the production line (GB 2363225). Computer-aided design software divides a prototype car into a number of …

News

Technology

Internet interceptor

News

Technology

Get your skates on

News

Hubble catches space mice by the tail

News

Closing in on vCJD

News

Your cheating heart

News

My imaginary friends

News

Snap, crackle and hop

News

Fragrant thoughts

News

Diagnosis at a stroke

News

Landscapes of letters

News

Gourmet mushrooms tuck into vineyard waste

News

The gadget inspector

News

Test picks up the tiniest traces of tiger

News

Dirty money

News

World Cup online

News

Time to clean up

News

Back in business

News

This is your captain watching

News

Escape pod promised for son of shuttle

News

And now…the quantum virus

News

ER not ready for bioterror

News

How to build a mouse

News

Unfellable evidence

News

Dumb habit

News

It's a swipe

News

Soya may not protect against cancer after all

News

Mercy mission

News

The compass in your eye

News

Referee!

News

Canyon channels toxic soil far out to sea

News

Sex and the city

News

The night sky really is studded with diamonds

News

Fire eaters

News

Sick you will be

News

Great balls of fire!

News

Get in shape

News

Suffocating trees

News

Cull comfort

News

Gene warfare

News

A fresh start

News

Is an epidemic of CJD going undetected?

News

Behind the smokescreen

News

Suffer the children

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

I HAD believed the anti-lock braking system (ABS) on my car made driving safer and provided some sort of guarantee against uncontrollable skids. So I was disconcerted to find this view challenged recently ( New Scientist, 2 March, p 3 and p 9 ). It seems that far from making driving safer, ABS could be …

Opinion

All for the love of God

Opinion

Making sense of a world in conflict

Opinion

Natural born killers

Opinion

This is how we live

Opinion

The deadly effect of non-lethal weapons

Opinion

Troubled water

Opinion

Features

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Blinding flash

FOUR years ago disaster struck the Earth, borne on a beam of light. On its 12-billion-year journey from a distant quasar, the light had passed through interstellar clouds of metals such as iron, nickel and chromium. When astronomer John Webb and his team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney analysed the light, …

Features

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Tick tock tick tick tock

The Living Clock by John Palmer, Oxford University Press, $26, ISBN 019514340X IT'S RARE to be able to recommend a book on science for holiday reading, but this is one. The Living Clock is a gripper from the first page and never lets go. After you've read the entertaining story that begins with author John …

Books & Arts

Hairy beasts

Books & Arts

Pandora's new box

Books & Arts

Victims of bad pr

Books & Arts

The search for perfection

Books & Arts

Death by degrees

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE NUCLEAR industry has been accused of many things, but can it really be held responsible for the latest shock to hit France? We are referring, of course, to the first round of the French presidential election, in which, to the complete astonishment even of many who voted for him, Jean-Marie Le Pen, long-time leader …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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