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1 February 2003

Issue 2380

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Soft machine

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Heavy weather

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Fragile minds

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Burgers on the brain

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News

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Blind fear

CHILDREN who are afraid of the dark may be suffering from a form of night blindness. Gordon Dutton, an ophthalmologist at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow, describes two children with an inherited form of night blindness who developed a profound fear of the dark (British Medical Journal, vol 326, p 211). Although they could see …

News

Tougher with tusks

News

The milky way

News

Desert devastation

News

Cracks appearing

News

Technology

Zip up your flat-packs

News

Technology

No fear of crashing

News

Technology

So that's what it was for…

News

Steam fires underwater jet engine

News

Getting to grips with mystery space bugs

News

Eat more, weigh less, live longer

News

Termites tackle the plastic bag menace

News

We hear that…

News

Bugs' breathy secrets revealed

News

Marrow cells offer hope for nerves ravaged by disease

News

Double whammy destroys mouse tumours

News

Regenerating the retina

News

How to flick the switch that makes liver cells produce insulin

News

No secret will be safe from quantum code breakers

News

The meek shall inherit the Earth, provided they can survive long enough

News

Worms beaten back in the battle for the banana

News

Lake to lose its silent killer

News

Space

Mission impossible

News

Arctic faces toxic time bomb

News

Dispatches

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Researchers' links with biomed industry lead to bias in clinical trials

News

Movie pirates will have field day after DVD security lapse

News

Gene engineers move into the dairy

News

World's poor may get cheaper drugs

News

Technology

News

Ecoterrorists target rarest of birds

News

Lobbying on asteroid threat finally pays off

News

Hungry for the right advice

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THIS magazine recently reported on Britain's bid to generate large amounts of electricity by burning biomass (30 November 2002, p 8) . In the vanguard is the £79-million Eggborough Biomass Plant (also known as ARBRE) in North Yorkshire. It is supposed to be Britain's first power station fuelled by fast-growing willow coppice. But ARBRE was …

Opinion

The word ethnoclimatology

Opinion

Eyes wide open

Opinion

Healthcare by numbers

Opinion

A high with your fries?

Opinion

Features

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Soft machine

SOMETIMES our bodies are just too clever for their own good. Whether the object is to overcome a disability, or to use our thoughts to control machines around us, there's a major obstacle to creating an interface between brain and machine: our ever-alert immune system. Even the most effective immunosuppressant drugs cannot stop it piling …

Features

Heavy weather

Features

Fragile minds

Features

Burgers on the brain

Features

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Catch up on evolution

A quote from our reviewer says it all: "Do we need more books about Darwin? Yes, we do, but only if they are as good as Carl Zimmer's Evolution, which brings the great man's ideas bang up-to-date." Published by Random House in paperback at £7.99, it will clearly be money well spent.

Books & Arts

Up, up and away

Books & Arts

Far out

Books & Arts

Cook's tour

Books & Arts

The rape of science

Books & Arts

Secret treasure

Books & Arts

Spirited stuff

Books & Arts

The other heroes

Books & Arts

Let's get fizzical

Books & Arts

Deforesting the Earth by Michael Williams and other books

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HERE'S a touching story of the times. The Boulder, Colorado, Daily Camera reported a couple of weeks ago that an armed police SWAT team had to be called when a 32-year-old man from Boulder was overheard screaming threats to a "bitch" he wanted "to kill" in his apartment. The man, who had earlier opened his …

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