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23 November 2002

Issue 2370

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Riddle of the giant tooth

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I see a long life and a healthy one…

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Humans

Love is the drug

Features
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Second sight

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Wind-up

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Table of contents

News

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What came first, bigger brains or lots of sex?

LOW fertility and frequent pregnancy complications may be the price that we have paid for evolving a large brain. For the fetus to get enough nutrients to grow a hefty brain the placenta has to aggressively invade a mother's uterus, says a new theory. But that can also provoke her immune system, causing dangerous complications. …

News

Stick a pollen trap up your nose to ward off hay fever

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Food scraps make perfect plastic

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Technology

Your dinner's in the dog

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Technology

Technicolour phones

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Technology

Roasty, not toasty

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Dark energy still refuses to go away

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Nanotubes born inside a mini-fireball

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Neanderthals used both hands to kill

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Download your life into this computer

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NASA plans escape route

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New twist to veterans' tale

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We hear that…

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Life

Animal experiments on trial

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Whirring wheels keep finless sub on course

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The fix that fails kids' eyes

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Random noise gave vital boost to primitive life

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Environment

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Bioweapons convention saved by a compromise

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Dispatches

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Nuclear bunker buster clears latest hurdle

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Soundbites

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Earth

Wildlife policeman bares its teeth over exploited species

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Radios can jam patients' lifelines

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Stray genes spark anger

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Happy as a pig in… a waterbed

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Chill out with the new taste of green tea

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Sweet smell of success

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Boom, you're dead

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Hungry for sex

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Breathe deep

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Opinion

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Only as a last resort

COUNTRIES that want to see how debate over animal experiments is likely to develop should keep an eye on Britain. It has one of the world's strictest systems for deciding what can and can't be done to living creatures in the name of science. It also has one of the most active animal rights movements, …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

The word molecular gastronomy

Opinion

Way back when...

Opinion

Not worth the paper

Opinion

Features

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Riddle of the giant tooth

When the Gulf of Siam docked in Sydney in May 1892, the ship's surgeon signed off. Robert Broom, a young doctor from Glasgow, was about to start a new life in Australia. Hidden in his luggage, away from the prying eyes of customs officers, were two rifles and enough ammunition to shoot the animals he …

Features

I see a long life and a healthy one…

Features

Humans

Love is the drug

Features

Second sight

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Wind-up

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Bestsellers - Berkeley

Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra, Doubleday Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson, Metropolitan Books A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris, Simon and Schuster Linked: The new science of networks by Albert-Lázsló Barabási, Perseus The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen …

Books & Arts

Smart Mobs: The next social revolution by Howard Rheingold

Books & Arts

Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum

Books & Arts

Kevin leaves the dark side

Books & Arts

Bird of paradise

Books & Arts

It's a natural thing

Books & Arts

Mutate with purpose

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THANKS to what the US Department of Defense calls "advancements in digital audio technology", America's military funerals will soon sound much better. Aficionados of Westerns should recognise the plaintive strains of Taps, the bugle call played at sunset on army posts, and at military funerals as well. But the armed forces don't have enough real …

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