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8 February 2003

Issue 2381

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The shipwrecked tuna

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Protect and survive

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World without AIDS

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After Einstein

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Positive progress

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Beating the odds

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Beating the odds

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News

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Nanoballs to the rescue

PARTICULATE pollution isn't all bad – it seemsthe particles could be helping clouds soak up ozone-destroying CFCs. CFCs and related perfluorocarbons don't normally dissolve in water. But when Andrei Sommer and Ralf-Peter Franke at the University of Ulm in Germany added 70-nanometre-wide spheres of polystyrene, they found that the perfluorocarbons mixed with water easily (Nano …

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Don't add E to cannabis

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Twins aren't more likely

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Adventurous fish

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Technology

No more junk downloads

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Life

Diseased brains attempt to repair themselves

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Girls just want to be on their own

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Cracking a parasite

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Lightning strikes release powerful X-ray bursts

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Sinking salt heralds next El Niño

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Introducing Dr Webcam…

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Dad's coochy-coos leave baby guessing

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Modified cotton passes 10-year trial with flying colours

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Technology

Power up your poncho

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Technology

Coping with DVT

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'Indoor GPS' to help droids find their feet in the home

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Mini craters are the key to making 'blackest ever black'

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We hear that…

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Diseases are running rife in forest remnants

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Blame tadpoles for hiccups

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Banned insecticide lingers on for years if bugs in the soil are poisoned

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Environment

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US comes clean on nuclear legacy

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Tower collapse theory challenged

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SETI is about to get serious

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Space station crew faces long wait

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After grief comes the realpolitik

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Columbia's luck finally runs out

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What went wrong?

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

ARGUABLY, the most important meeting I participated in last year was the October conference at Canning House, in London's Belgrave Square, on "Climate and the Amazon: Consequences for our planet". According to experts at Britain's Met Office's Hadley Centre, the rainforest is likely to vanish within a few decades if greenhouse emissions continue to rise. …

Opinion

The word aurophilicity

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Hero or heretic?

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Take the money and hide

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The loss of Columbia

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Features

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The shipwrecked tuna

The sailors were triumphant. No matter that their ship might be wrecked on a notorious stretch of England's south coast and they were exhausted from their attempts to salvage its cargo. They still had something to celebrate. Not a single life had been lost and they had just saved a singular and very troublesome piece …

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Health

Protect and survive

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World without AIDS

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After Einstein

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Positive progress

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Health

Beating the odds

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A consummate passion

Michelangelo's Florence Pietà by Jack Wasserman with contributions by Franca Trinchieri Camiz, Timothy Verdon, and Peter Rockwell; technical studies by ENEA, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, and IBM. Published by Princeton University Press, £52/$75, ISBN 0691016216 Reviewed by Michael Brooks WHY would Michelangelo smash up the Florence Pietà before he had even finished it? Did he …

Books & Arts

Birdly paradise

Books & Arts

Numbers crunched

Books & Arts

The Hungry Gene: The science of fat and the future of thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell

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Light in the darkness

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Golden mouldies

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Bestsellers - Amstersdam

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Regulars

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Feedback

HERE'S one of those strange little facts that emerge from reports about the activities of different US government agencies. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it transpires, has refused to force car manufacturers to offer longer seat belts for obese passengers. The board found that even though there are 38 million Americans with a "seated …

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