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5 October 2002

Issue 2363

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Ships wrecked

Features
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It takes two

Features
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Plight of the condor

Features
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The meaning of life

Features

Table of contents

News

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'Flat-pack' craft will boost discoveries

SPACE probes will one day be slotted together as easily – if that's the word – as flat-pack furniture, if a £30 million plan by the European Space Agency succeeds. ESA wants its next generation of deep space probes to be built from off-the-shelf modules that can be mixed and matched according to the needs …

News

Fast food for fish with a perfect aim

News

Trauma in the genes

News

Din-free dining

News

Shop till you drop

News

Species saviour

News

Shock that tumour

News

Caretaker robot will keep terrorists at bay

News

A foolproof way to spot quark stars

News

Robots to the rescue

News

The random route to perfect poise

News

Bug clears arteries

News

Women's lib got it wrong in the 1970s… marriage makes both sexes happy

News

Let me show you round this car

News

Tags will tell you if frozen food's rotten

News

Hydrogen utopia comes two steps closer

News

Resistance to pesticides goes global in a flash

News

Is this why some people don't get AIDS?

News

Technology

With this DNA, I thee wed

News

Technology

Slam the door on floods

News

Technology

Soft stepping sidewalks

News

We hear that…

News

US millers fight for banned pesticide

News

Space probe fingers murderers

News

Diabetes drugs of the future could help us all look and feel younger

News

Is little foot only a cousin?

News

Environment

News

Now mammals are feeling the heat

News

Call to retract ban on shoot-'em-ups

News

Bedbugs bite back

News

The case against female circumcision

News

Lorenzo's oil really does save lives

News

Dispatches

News

There's no place like home

News

Polio epidemic scuppers WHO target

News

Rising star of electronics found to have fabricated his ground-breaking results

News

Soundbites

News

Warplane system 'could cut mid-air explosions'

News

With hindsight, it was a hell of a lot of papers

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

DAVID CONOVER from Stony Brook University, New York, claims that fishing only for large fish and rejecting the small fry creates a selection pressure which forces down the size of individual fish (New Scientist, 13 July, p 21) . If trawlers took some of the smaller ones, the biomass of the fish population would actually …

Opinion

Sex and the single snail

Opinion

The word svalbard

Opinion

Designed for life

Opinion

It's that drug again

Opinion

Conduct unbecoming

Opinion

Features

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Ships wrecked

IT WAS one of the great finds of the 20th century. The Vasa, the pride of the Swedish navy, heeled over and sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, drowning about a third of the 150 crew – and the ship's cat – in the catastrophe. Yet when the warship was discovered over 300 years …

Features

It takes two

Features

Plight of the condor

Features

The meaning of life

Features

More

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It all depends

Making Sense of Life by Evelyn Fox Keller, Harvard University Press, $29.95/£19.95, ISBN 0674007468 THIS is a book that asks really big questions. What constitutes a scientific explanation? What do we mean when we say we "understand" a natural process? Evelyn Fox Keller has the credentials to put such questions. A towering figure in the …

Books & Arts

All about us

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Melbourne

Books & Arts

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson

Books & Arts

No thyself

Books & Arts

Evolving the Alien: The science of extraterrestrial life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

Books & Arts

Le roi est mort

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ISN'T it wonderful how each new high-tech gadget we become addicted to finds a way to inject chaos and disruption into our lives? We're thinking here of cellphones, whose owners are tech-savvy enough to program buttons for frequently-dialled numbers, but not enough to lock the keypad when they put the things in their pockets or …

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