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4 January 2003

Issue 2376

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Technology

A ram for the rebels

Features
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It's a kind of magic

Features
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Long time no sea

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Make peace not war

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Watch this space

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Table of contents

News

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Zip out cancer

WHY are some women with breast cancer more susceptible to developing secondary tumours elsewhere in their body? Wen Jian and his team at University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff have found that vulnerable patients have fewer molecules called "tight junctions", which seal the gaps between neighbouring cells. When tight junctions are in short …

News

Stealth bats

News

Ignore the face

News

Going, going, gone

News

Technology

Easier on the eyes

News

Technology

Zap up to date

News

Clever silkworms spin collagen cocoons

News

Technology

Flowers on the dung heap

News

Magnets take the twinkle out of stars

News

Red wine extract gives fruit a new lease of life

News

Life

Farewell, man the hunter?

News

An awful lot of Earths may be out there

News

Miniature drug factories save failing eyesight

News

Grasshopper deaths send biobatteries back to square one

News

Light works for organ engineers

News

Tory PM blocked anti-smoking law

News

How NASA launched Europe's space agency

News

Earth

'Protato' to feed India's poor

News

Technology

Radio mice

News

Technology

Dummy fields save crops

News

Technology

Listen – it's me!

News

Euler vindicated after 250 years

News

How nuclear power plants in Japan helped uncover the Sun's secrets

News

Has this chimp taught himself to talk?

News

We hear that…

News

US rocketeering may fizzle out

News

Great Barrier Reef

News

Comets to come thick and fast for next two years

News

Birds bring radioactivity ashore

News

Earth

Refugee species are feeling the heat of global warming

News

Opinion

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The word cosmic preservationist

Jain monks sweep the path ahead of them to avoid treading on any living creature. Cosmic preservationists go one better on the ethical scale: they believe that even rocks have rights and shouldn't be abused. Environmentalism gone mad? Perhaps. Cosmic preservationists are most concerned about extra-terrestrial rocks. For them, space really is the final frontier …

Opinion

Going with the flow

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

More smoke and mirrors

Opinion

New year, new debate

Opinion

Features

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Technology

A ram for the rebels

It was an otherwise unremarkable day in 1883 as the ferry boat St Johns chugged across the Hudson River towards the New Jersey shore, when all of a sudden a monstrous steel porpoise breached the surface nearby before plunging back underwater. The St Johns turned tail and fled back to harbour. Even after the ferry …

Features

It's a kind of magic

Features

Long time no sea

Features

Make peace not war

Features

Watch this space

Features

More

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No free lunches

Sex, Drugs and Economics: An unconventional introduction to economics by Diane Coyle, Texere, £16.99, ISBN 1587991470 Naked Economics: Undressing the dismal science by Charles Wheelan, W. W. Norton, £20.95/$25.95, ISBN 0393049825 A SENIOR computer executive once told me that the Internet had altered the basic laws of economics. Amazingly, his company is still in business, …

Books & Arts

Liar, liar

Books & Arts

Controlling forces

Books & Arts

Here but not

Books & Arts

What's your poison?

Books & Arts

The big chill

Books & Arts

Puzzle primes

Books & Arts

A New Green Order? by Zoe Young

Books & Arts

Cat of many tales

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THIS week we bring you more winning entries to the Feedback Christmas Competition, in which readers were asked to select a human trait or behaviour and give their own evolutionary explanation for its existence. HOW do we explain the evolutionary trait of "beer goggles", the well-known phenomenon of members of the opposite sex becoming more …

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