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1 March 2003

Issue 2384

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Not fade away

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Within a hair's breadth

WHAT happens to gravity over tiny distances? Using delicate apparatus to measure gravitational forces over just a tenth of a millimetre, the shortest distance ever, a team of physicists has found that, as far as they can tell, the forces are roughly as Newton's laws predict. The result narrows down the possible nature of hidden …

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Not all cancer cells are equal

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Bad breath bugs

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Forensic back-up

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Gene silencing gains strength in numbers

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Reptile uses unusual orifice to keep cool

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Sweet and sour

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Telescopic vision

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Has TB met its match?

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Fish got two bites at teeth

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Modified mosquitoes pass the fitness test

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Larvae resist might of the sea

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Fighting over pharming

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Agencies join forces to warn of disasters

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Sopping-wet secret of the Red Planet

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Chock-full of methane, Lake Kivu stores enough energy to power all of Rwanda

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Nuclear bunker busters come under scrutiny

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The only additive you'll ever need

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Technology

Turning money into mush

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Technology

Cleaning up Internet gags

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Technology

"It's your bank manager…"

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Prions make all the right connections

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Are troops at risk of Gulf war syndrome II?

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Britain's global energy vision

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How to steal a PIN in just 15 attempts

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Sacred heirlooms tarnished

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Dispatches

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Too busy to spot a smallpox outbreak

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Columbia left a legacy to science

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NASA shifts focus to ice impact risk

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Soundbites

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Conflict looms over India's river plan

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Flu outbreak triggers fears of global pandemic

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Opinion

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The word centrifugal

HAVE you ever let the words "centrifugal force" escape from your lips? Shame on you: you might as well have called it the "hocus-pocus force". You are in good company, though. Scientists, engineers and, we confess, even New Scientist, sometimes let the c-word slip. Why can't we help ourselves? It's all down to our subjective …

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Humans

Westminster diary

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A sense of wonder

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Perception is everything

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Only use once

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Features

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Not fade away

ASK any movie fan about old films and they'll tell you that classic features are slowly turning to dust as the old cellulose nitrate film on which they were made crumbles away. Tell music enthusiasts, or radio or theatre buffs, that irreplaceable sound recordings are being lost in much the same way, and they will …

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Life

Emission control

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Nature's best buys

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Back from the dead

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Storm Chasers by David Toomey

Storm Chasers by David Toomey, W. W. Norton, $25.95/£19.95, ISBN 0393020002 Reviewed by Roy Herbert IN THE 1950s there were only limited methods of measuring the intensity and direction of the hurricanes that regularly appeared from the Caribbean and tore an all-destroying path up the east coast of America. To forecast their routes and strength …

Books & Arts

The Costa frogs

Books & Arts

Hidden Worlds: Hunting for quarks in ordinary matter by Timothy Paul Smith

Books & Arts

Show me

Books & Arts

The Real Environmental Crisis by Jack Hollander and other books

Books & Arts

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Feedback

CRYSTAL homeopathy combines the principles of homeopathic medicine with the healing power of crystals. That's the claim made in www.the-crystal-chamber.net , a site offering very special crystals for sale. These crystals, while they were forming in caves over thousands of years, have picked up minute, homeopathic quantities of substances that will benefit you through their …

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