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16 November 2002

Issue 2369

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My best friend's a robot

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Full of goodness

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Now you see it…

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We were meant to be…

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News

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A whiff of the reef

HOW do reef fish, which usually spend their first weeks in the open ocean, find their way back to the coral where they spend their adult lives? A team of American and Australian researchers tested reef fish in tanks and found that they can sniff out lagoon water compared to open ocean water, and prefer …

News

Life

Don't forget to feed your body clock

News

Why you're hardly ever blue in the tropics

News

Head-to-toe migraine

News

No mind over matter

News

Galactic powerhouse

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Bison bones

News

Why rocks off Red Planet are so young

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Nice notes, shame about the glue

News

Technology

Bring on the hurricane

News

Technology

Sound repairs

News

Life

Watching dementia through young eyes

News

Life

Hidden risks of infant surgery

News

Technology

Rolling back the years?

News

Byzantine church gives up the secret of its longevity

News

Our Sun's full glory is revealed

News

It's dress-down time for nuclear workers

News

Faster chips on the way as silicon learns to run on beams of light

News

Fake targets fool hackers

News

When cystitis might be good news…

News

We hear that…

News

Antarctic neutrino trap comes with superstrings attached

News

A faster, better, cheaper way to probe space failures

News

Technology

Anything to declare?

News

Have we got it horribly wrong?

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Flawed water tests put millions at risk

News

'Wonky holes' blamed for coral death

News

Soundbites

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Computing's dirty little secret is finally revealed

News

Dispatches

News

Bees buzz elephants

News

More proof that MMR jab is safe

News

Twins raise ruckus

News

Technology

News

Coffee may ward off diabetes

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

SHOULD the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act preclude the selection of an embryo as a tissue match for a seriously ill sibling, where the embryo itself is not at risk of inheriting the condition (New Scientist, 10 August, p 3)? I asked health ministers. Hazel Blears, the public health minister, said that the question …

Opinion

Birds, bees and laser beams

Opinion

Let them eat vitamins

Opinion

Who is the greatest of them all?

Opinion

Features

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My best friend's a robot

EVEN at 15 years old, Phoebe still likes playing with dolls. Unlike other kids of her age who are busy eyeing up the opposite sex or fast-talking their way into the cool gang, Phoebe speaks in simple sentences, avoids eye contact and finds it difficult to make friends. Her problem is autism. Like many other …

Features

Full of goodness

Features

Now you see it…

Features

We were meant to be…

Features

More

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Look up

How to Identify: Night sky by Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion, Collins, £12.99, ISBN 0007103611 Reviewed by Mick O'Hare THERE'S surely no argument that Storm Dunlop has the grooviest name of any astronomy author. And while that's no reason in itself to ask for a copy of Night Sky, the latest in the Collins "How …

Books & Arts

Leonardo's Laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies by Ben Shneiderman

Books & Arts

Unsung heroes

Books & Arts

The games people play

Books & Arts

Darling Dodo

Books & Arts

Dear diary…

Books & Arts

Fields of Battle edited by Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett

Books & Arts

Booklist

Books & Arts

Larger than life

Books & Arts

Child's play

Books & Arts

Booklist

Books & Arts

You are here

Books & Arts

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (2002)

Books & Arts

Fast forward

Books & Arts

Deep in time

Books & Arts

Ascent of a man

Books & Arts

The straight story

Books & Arts

A galaxy of images

Books & Arts

Y: The descent of men by Steve Jones

Books & Arts

Booklist

Books & Arts

The must-read list

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

A NEW view of the familiar dinosaur Stegosaurus raised many eyebrows at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Norman, Oklahoma, last month. A paper posted by T. R. Karbek of the Steveville Academy of Paleontological Studies in Patricia, Alberta, offered "The case for Stegosaurus as an agile, cursorial, biped". Cursorial means …

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