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18 January 2003

Issue 2378

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The poet and the pox

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Fold here first

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Electric paper

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The language bug

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Earth

Going bananas

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Table of contents

News

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Penguin harmonics

IMAGINE trying to hear your mother's voice in a crowd of a million shouting people. This is the task facing king penguin chicks. But mum's calls are cleverly designed to help junior. Adult king penguins make a series of four to eight calls, which each go from loud to soft and are composed of numerous …

News

Pumped-up berries

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We hear that…

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Life's lost and found

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How radioactive fallout from the 1950s is fingering today's illegal drug dealers

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Mouse has the nous to tackle depression

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Can ships swap mooring ropes for giant electromagnets?

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Supercool star

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Ravines hint at gas avalanches on Mars

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Space

Solar systems born in hazardous nursery

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Old saris are the key to cleaner, safer water

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Keep it shiny

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Space

Monster burps from milky way's black hole

News

Technology

Self-destructing DVDs

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Something in the air makes seeds sprout

News

Space

A planet so hot it rains iron

News

Technology

'Throwaway' digital camera

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Technology

Dust to dust, jelly to jelly

News

Countdown

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Houses are worse threat than people

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Recipes for bioterror

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Book ruling puts Danish institute in the spotlight

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Stroke patients make great strides in a different reality

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Magnetic maps reveal the motion of the oceans

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Guiding the blind watchmaker

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Can 'space sheepdogs' clear up Earth's orbital junkyard?

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Deep Junior will use brains not brawn to take on mighty Kasparov

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Altered beet is a haven for wildlife

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Soundbites

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Red alert over rare species

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Dispatches

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Instant anger hits messaging patent

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The mother of all El Niños revealed

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THE LORD Dowding Fund for Humane Research has written to all MPs about its proposals to the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures. It wants a national centre which will coordinate the development of ways of replacing animals in research and testing. The Lords gave the idea their blessing in general …

Opinion

The word sar11

Opinion

Computational origami

Opinion

Call off the witch-hunt

Opinion

For whose eyes only

Opinion

Features

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The poet and the pox

Over the next few weeks a million Americans will be vaccinated against smallpox, a disease that was driven from the face of the Earth more than two decades ago. Smallpox was defeated by a global programme of vaccination. But fears that samples of virus held in labs in the US and Russia might have fallen …

Features

Fold here first

Features

Electric paper

Features

The language bug

Features

Earth

Going bananas

Features

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Nora Volkow

Psychiatrist Nora Volkow at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York pioneers brain imaging to investigate the effects of drug addiction on the brain. She's a fan of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami and has just finished After the Quake (Harvill, 2002), a story of lives affected by the Kobe earthquake. Volkow also enjoyed Murakami's non-fiction account …

Books & Arts

Fly me to the dune

Books & Arts

Albert-László-Barabási

Books & Arts

And so to bed

Books & Arts

No way out

Books & Arts

Relatively easy

Books & Arts

You shouldn't have…

Books & Arts

The Dinosaur Dealers by John Long

Books & Arts

Moments in time

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE BBC recently had to ask private collectors for help in finding lost TV treasures. Music programmes and comedy classics – like the best of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – were all lost when the BBC had economy drives in the 1970s and erased recordings and threw out rolls of film. Turning a blind …

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