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22 February 2003

Issue 2383

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Life through X-ray eyes

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Deep heat

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Hear my voice

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Weigh to go

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Proof of life

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News

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Asteroid hunt turns up a starry neighbour

THERE'S a new star in town – a dim red dwarf. The star, with the unwieldy name SO025300.5+165258, is the third nearest star system to our Sun. Although it had been catalogued before, no one realised that it was so close, says Bonnard Teegarden from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Teegarden and …

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Blinded by the light

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Single-mindedly smart

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Shocked into life

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Prehistoric prize veg

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Swiss gadget predicts risk of avalanches

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Smooth space theory gets a bumpy ride

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Penguin dads keep their fish fresh

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Technology

Not quite nano, but it's hot

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Technology

Could icy carbon tubes replace transistors?

News

Quake danger after heavy snow

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Draining rice fields cuts greenhouse gas

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End computer rage with a manual that makes sense

News

Squirrels evolve as the world heats up

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Technology

Cheating the ad men

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Technology

Bleach lightning

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Technology

Keep the pilot breathing

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Oil and water do mix

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Silicon chips go quantum

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America's bumper harvests will wither away if the temperature keeps rising

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Mungo Man has his say on Australia's first humans

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X-ray trick picks out tiny tumours

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Did exploding tyres bring down Columbia?

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Hidden cloud layer revealed

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Asteroid creeps up on the inside

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Technology

Ecowar looms in the Pacific's pristine waters

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Earth

Iconic wildlife park criticised

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Dispatches

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Crayfish clones poised to invade European waters

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Is undersea noise harming whales?

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Environment

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Pollutants do part-time cleaning job

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Journal editors agree to censor research papers

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A sad farewell for Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal

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US Air Force plans nuclear drones

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

PITY the poor National Institutes of Health. The agency has seen its budget more than double in the past six years, from a mere $13 billion in 1997 to an estimated $27 billion this year. I say estimated because Congress still hasn't passed a budget for the current fiscal year, which began last October. Have …

Opinion

The word galactic cannibalism

Opinion

The greening of hate

Opinion

Not good enough to eat

Opinion

Disarm or else

Opinion

Features

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Life through X-ray eyes

As cameras go, Ray Gosling's might have appeared to be a snap or two short of a full album. His kit was no state-of-the-art Zeiss or Leica – but then Gosling was not in the paparazzi business. In the early 1950s, working as a graduate student with crystallographer Rosalind Franklin – aka the Dark Lady …

Features

Deep heat

Features

Hear my voice

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Weigh to go

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Proof of life

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More

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Bacon, anyone?

The First Scientist: The visionary genius of Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg, Constable & Robinson, £16.99, ISBN 1841196185 Reviewed by Roy Herbert BRIAN CLEGG's book has been written to achieve more fame and respect for Roger Bacon, the medieval friar and philosopher who, he maintains, has a much more authentic claim to be the first …

Books & Arts

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Books & Arts

Call it puppy love

Books & Arts

In the Beginning Was the Worm by Andrew Brown

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Caught on camera

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Idol jottings

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Indian heroes

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Regulars

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Feedback

AN ARTICLE in New Scientist recently warned Hollywood that outside the US and Japan it is easy to bypass copy-protection for DVDs by copying movie discs to blank discs, using the home DVD recorders now appearing in high street shops around the world (1 February, p 7) . No one in the industry showed any …

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