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10 August 2002

Issue 2355

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Pipped to the positron

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The anatomists' farewell

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Golden goals

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The top-down Universe

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Cutting edge

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New schizophrenia theory

A PARTICULAR type of nerve cell, known as a glial cell, has been fingered as a cause of schizophrenia. The theory could help explain an abundance of disparate evidence for what triggers the disease. Glial cells play a crucial role in the early development of the brain, and in adults they help support neurons, as …

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Cosmic rays and newborn clouds explain one of the mysteries of global warming

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Download and multiply

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Middle-aged spread

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Calling the tunes

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Blooming cold

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Jets blanket the Earth

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Smoking can seriously harm your cat's health

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How to flip a galaxy

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Wasps sniff out danger

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Record labels to take 'viral' approach to PR

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Grey-sky theory puts stargazers in shade

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Technology

Hot lips

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Technology

Shocking appetite

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Technology

See it, buy it

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Pictures that hide your true identity

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Killing cancer in a hail of bullets

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Roaming farmers cultivated civilisation

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We hear that…

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Families not fashion blamed for anorexia

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Toxic alga eschews the use of poison

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Now embryonic stem cells comewithout the risk of animal diseases

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Secrets of a long life revealed

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Environment

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Peace deal could fuel mineral plunder

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US rejection of nuclear test treaty 'unjustified'

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Hand-helds are a hacker's best friend

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Future of corals is going down the pan

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The contraceptive plague

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Triggering mini-crashes could help stock markets ride out tough times

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Shuttle repairs are go

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Britain's smallpox vaccine should work just as well as the US version

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Robotic warrior goes into action in the hazardous caves of Afghanistan

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Dispatches

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Clue to how power lines could increase the risk of cancer

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Soundbites

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Jury still out over the Vinland Map

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

PARLIAMENTARY colleagues who have visited Sierra Leone recently returned with lurid accounts of people suffering hideous mutilations as a result of the cruel civil war raging there. In a recent editorial, New Scientist made the case that in many an African country where diamonds and illegal mining are funding conflict, the big diamond companies now …

Opinion

Eridug

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In the line of fire

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There's no pill for curinga hellish upbringing

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A tale of two youngsters

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Viruses can run wild too

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Features

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Pipped to the positron

Paul Dirac's prediction of antimatter was the greatest triumph of modern physiocs. Applying relativity to quantum theory, he argued in 1931 that there should exist an anti-electron, and that it would have the same mass as the electron but the opposite charge. The following year, an experimenter who knew nothing of Dirac's prediction was the …

Features

The anatomists' farewell

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Golden goals

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The top-down Universe

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Cutting edge

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Found it

The Ghost with Trembling Wings by Scott Weidensaul, North Point Press, £17.99/$24, ISBN 0374246645 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett GILBERT'S poteroo, the Fiji petrel, Pakistan's giant flying squirrel and the Canary Island Lazarus lizard all have just one thing in common: declared extinct, each then rose up – like Lazarus – with the discovery of an …

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Berkeley

Books & Arts

The man who made maps

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Golden opportunity

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Discovering discovery

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I enclose an SAE

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Why oh why oh why?

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Feedback

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