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30 November 2002

Issue 2371

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The liquid telescope

Features
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Darkness at noon

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You are what you speak

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Genes can come true

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Plague of plenty

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Table of contents

News

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Wily whales flash their bellies to petrify prey

KILLER whales have developed one of the most sophisticated hunting strategies among ocean dwellers – all to outwit herring lurking deep in the dark waters off the Norwegian coast. Leif Nøttestad and his colleagues at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway, used sonar to watch groups of up to 50 killer whales diving …

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DNA's best friend

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Road-kill turtles

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Do…you…understand?

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Battle of the black holes

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Older father risk

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Strum the Internet if you want a safer connection

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Moon's shadow stirs up eclipse wind

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One at a time on the astroscales please…

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Technology

Audible icons

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Technology

Don't phone and drive

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Technology

Fighting movie piracy

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Sweet genes help rice in a drought

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Life

Take one genome…

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Why artificial microbes may be just a solution looking for a problem

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Warblers are born to sing

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Physics

Qubits turn up trumps

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Making tissue that just keeps growing

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Green light for grafts

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Quick test targets illegal traders

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Fraud detection system catches eye of Pentagon as way of beating terrorism

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When did dogs become our best friends?

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Modified crop breeds toxic hybrid

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Biomass project burns out

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Early warning of bad heart

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When is an oil spill an environmental disaster?

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Artists turn DNA into the ultimate personalised gift

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Soundbites

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Dispatches

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Accusations fly over 'green' timber

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Oz broadband hitches ride on mobile network

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How big tobacco manipulated the black civil rights struggle

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California poised for disaster

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

SOOT is a thoroughly ticklish subject. When it gets up your nose, it's bad for your health. And when it gets into the atmosphere, it's a source of some scientific and political dispute. Recent research by respectable scientists in peer-reviewed journals (an essential caveat when it comes to the topic of global warming) suggests that …

Opinion

A study in conflict

Opinion

The word zettabyte

Opinion

Still hard to be a woman

Opinion

Give science a chance

Opinion

Let sleeping bats lie

Opinion

Features

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The liquid telescope

YOU can tell that there's something unusual about this telescope just from its name. Its competitors describe themselves as "very large", "extremely large", "overwhelmingly large" and "giant". This one, however, is unexpectedly modest about its dimensions: it's just "large". And it is not only the unassuming name that sets the Large Aperture Mirror Array (LAMA) …

Features

Darkness at noon

Features

You are what you speak

Features

Genes can come true

Features

Plague of plenty

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Lord of the rings

Mission to Saturn by David Harland, Springer Verlag, £24.50, ISBN 1852336560 Reviewed by David Hughes WE ARE going to hear a great deal about Saturn and its rings and satellites when Cassini starts to orbit in July 2004. So why not prepare yourself by boning up on the history of the Solar System's second largest …

Books & Arts

Hominids, hominids

Books & Arts

Sturt W. Manning

Books & Arts

Gordon Rintoul

Books & Arts

Lethal invaders

Books & Arts

Espresso, prego

Books & Arts

One flea or two

Books & Arts

Colour me purple

Books & Arts

Shads of revolution

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ENTERTAININGLY titled papers continue to arrive. First the hyperbolic: "From molecular chemistry to supramolecular chemistry to superdupermolecular chemistry. Controlling covalent bond formation through non-covalent and magnetic interactions" by Nicholas Turro (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039/b205552j). Then there's the disturbing image conjured up by "Cardiorespiratory effects of pneumatic antishock trousers," by E. Abraham, J. C. Cobo and …

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