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26 October 2002

Issue 2366

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Sugar rush

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Ghost in the atom

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Stop the bleeding

A BLOOD-clotting powder derived from potato starch could soon be helping to save lives. The powder forms an instant clot on contact with blood by soaking up water and concentrating clotting factors, says researcher Mark Ereth of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Unlike existing protein-based clotting agents, Ereth's powder does not have to be …

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The future of food

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Insulin boost

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Message in the mud

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Dino defenders

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We hear that…

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Chinese hooked on myth of dragon child

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Cool glove stops tired athletes 'hitting the wall'

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Sea lion scores top marks in memory test

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Classy videos

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Happy snaps

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Sticky fingers

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It's only the really big asteroid impacts that are a threat to life on Earth

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Cells given lessons in how to fight cancer

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Plastics recycler takes all sorts

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Disease bugs will thrive when the smog closes in

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Oil spills show they can stick around

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It's hard to predict Leonids if Jupiter gets in the way

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Old Macdonald makes a GM pig

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Viruses meet their mismatch

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Hopes are revived for CJD drug

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A hot tip for tough jobs – use a microwave drill

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NASA prepares to boldly go

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Radiation risks unclear

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Cancer cell study deepens fears over cellphone safety

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Dispatches

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Tree farms won't save us after all

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Keep an eye on the MSG

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Scientists condemn river reversal plan

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Health

Plague on a national icon

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Humans

Washington diary

AS CONGRESS prepares to wrap up its legislative year and race home to fight for re-election, one item is glaringly absent: a law making it a crime to make a cloned human. Ask any member of Congress whether they would support such a law, and the answer would be a resounding yes. The trouble is …

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The word cirrus

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Written in the dust

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Crying out for answers

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Signs of life?

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Who are we?

THERE is a popular image of human evolution that you'll find all over the place, from the backs of cereal packets to advertisements for expensive scientific equipment. On the left of the picture there's an ape – stocky, jutting jaw, hunched in the knuckle-walking position. On the right, a man – graceful, high forehead, striding …

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On the brink

Spix's Macaw: The race to save the world's rarest bird by Tony Juniper, Fourth Estate, £16.99, ISBN 1841156507 Reviewed by Roy Herbert SPIX'S macaw was named after the first man who shot one in 1819, which seems miserably appropriate. An exceptionally beautiful blue bird with a long tail, it lived in Brazil, where Spix had …

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From cookiecutters to megamouths

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PEOPLE only smoke in black and white, apparently. Reader Philip Harvey has a copy of The Hustler on DVD, a black and white film in which many people smoke almost constantly. On the front and rear covers of the DVD are pictures from the film that have been through a colorisation process. Nobody in these …

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