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11 January 2003

Issue 2377

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How fast is gravity?

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Rites of passage

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First Light

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News

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The buzz on heat

HONEYBEES keep warm during chilly winter months by huddling together in a ball. Now it seems this central-heating system has a mysterious thermostat. Anton Stabentheiner and his team at the University of Graz in Austria took infrared images of a cross section through a winter ball. When bees on the outside of the colony got …

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Wondrous tail

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Moon photo mystery

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Telescope technology banishes wobbly knees

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Twin towers dust risk smaller than feared

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Crab trigonometry

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Slowing down MS

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Toxic Titan

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Smugglers face neutron test

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Technology

A load of balka?

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Technology

Bumper sticker radar

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Technology

TV ads get relevant

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Big hearts are first past the post

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Overeager adverts inflate drug claims

News

Computer bird brain is a match for nature's virtuoso singers

News

Stem cells fix the damage

News

How calf saliva could improve your toothpaste

News

Earth

Bugs thrive under seabed

News

Giant creatures appeared millions of years early

News

'Gadget printer' foreshadows a new industrial revolution

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Background radiation enough to trigger cancer

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Complete rice sequence goes public at last

News

Don't clone at home, say movie moguls

News

The net is closing on coral reef bombers

News

Soundbites

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Shipping 'pile-up' sparks safety fears

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Dispatches

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Humans

If not today, tomorrow

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

RECENTLY this magazine reported some alarming findings by Fiorenzo Marinelli and his team in Bologna on the relationship between the radio waves emitted by mobile phones and the growth of tumours (New Scientist, 26 October 2002, p 9) . Such findings reinforce the caveat that a British government committee, led by William Stewart, gave when …

Opinion

The word isostatic rebound

Opinion

The word doctor

Opinion

That's all folks!

Opinion

The lessons of Eve

Opinion

Features

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Heart-stopping

TOM never expected it to happen to him. He was just 40, with a young family and a good job. He thought he was in good shape too – he played a lot of football, didn't drink that much, never smoked. And after a medical at work just a year or two back, he had …

Features

How fast is gravity?

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Rites of passage

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First Light

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Bestsellers - Cambridge

The Life of Mammals by David Attenborough, BBC Books Blood and Guts by Roy Porter, Penguin Remarkable Trees of the World by Thomas Pakenham, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Dr. Riemann's Zeros by Karl Sabbagh, Atlantic Books Ig Nobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams, Orion The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Allen Lane/Penguin The Man Who Knew Too …

Books & Arts

Butchery and needlework

Books & Arts

Hope springs eternal

Books & Arts

Stars go cheap

Books & Arts

Expeditionary force

Books & Arts

Industrialized Nature by Paul R. Josephson

Books & Arts

Gimme a keyboard and a black rollneck

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK has come across a touchy question of etiquette. If Nobel prizewinners are treated like royalty, how should the winners treat royalty? One insight into the dilemma comes from Richard Roberts, who won the prize for medicine in 1993 for the co-discovery of split genes. Roberts told a meeting of the British Expats in Life …

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