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12 October 2002

Issue 2364

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Technology

Star wars hits the streets

Features
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Tissue transformers

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Fair enough

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The quantum oracle

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Table of contents

News

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Health

Pill spares friendly gut bugs from onslaught

ANTIBIOTICS are far from subtle. Instead of wiping out only disease-causing microbes, they regularly kill "friendly" bacteria too. But popping an enzyme pill could protect the good bacteria while leaving the rest for dead. Billions of useful bacteria colonise our guts, but because antibiotics are lethal to a whole range of microbes, drugs taken for …

News

I spy with my little octopussy eye

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The spider's stratagem

News

When life isn't sweet

News

Climate modellers overlook crucial factor in warming

News

Heart of the Planet

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Clean, green launch

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Post-pill pregnancies

News

Weedkillers could wipe out malaria

News

Health

Sloppy studies 'wasting time'

News

Mercury clock could set the standard

News

From food scraps to fuel cell

News

Massive balancing act pins down big G

News

Hard evidence left by biggest killer of all time points to death by suffocation

News

Huge snowball on outskirts of Solar System puts Pluto in the shade

News

…while concern grows that existing precautions may let infection through

News

Technology

Shake it up, baby

News

Technology

Instant brain check

News

Technology

No more freeloads any more

News

Health

Your very own sequence

News

Hopes rise for test to spot mad cow disease in people…

News

Wannabe fathers generate more testosterone for those special nights

News

Radio gets rubble-rousing

News

Cancer scare hits gene cures

News

Bug plugs keep the oil flowing

News

Soundbites

News

Red faces as 3G phone demo flops

News

Official report fails to quell safety fears over Colombian anti-drug campaign

News

Mass exodus curbs urban boom

News

Dispatches

News

Watchdog rejects plan to recover nuclear gas

News

Technology

News

Pago poised to blow its top

News

Retrovirus blamed for giving boy leukaemia

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

IT'S A burning issue – setting seams of coal deep underground alight to produce a range of combustible gases like methane and hydrogen. Now Brian Wilson, the energy minister, tells me that the Department of Trade and Industry is to assess the environmental impact of underground coal gasification (UCG). It seems to me that with …

Opinion

The word OMZS

Opinion

Free radical

Opinion

How you are helping to wreck the Planet

Opinion

Dark side of the genome

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Star wars hits the streets

EVER watched Star Trek and wondered what it must feel like to be hit by a phaser set to "stun"? If you're unlucky enough to be caught up in a riot in the future, you may well find out. Because the latest idea in non-lethal weapons is a laser that can knock you off your …

Features

Tissue transformers

Features

Fair enough

Features

The quantum oracle

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Icy waste

The Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans edited by Bernard Stonehouse, Wiley, £225, ISBN 0471986658 Reviewed by Jon Copley UNTIL fairly recently, Antarctica was little more than a squiggle at the bottom of maps. "It has always been our ambition to get inside that white space and now we are there so the space …

Books & Arts

Four legs: good

Books & Arts

Student - Bestsellers

Books & Arts

A feast of genes

Books & Arts

The proof is out there

Books & Arts

How to learn

Books & Arts

An alien abroad

Books & Arts

Keep these in mind

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback: the Ig Nobel prizes

FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes – the Ig Nobels – were handed out last week at Harvard University. Sponsored by the humourous magazine the Annals of Improbable Research, the prizes honour achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced". This year's crop was a rich one. A little device that can enhance interspecies understanding – at least …

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