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10 April 2004

Issue 2442

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Xochimilco's sunken treasure

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Fat buster

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Helix heresy

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It's the economy, stupid

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News

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Technology

Happy memories

FRUSTRATION is programmed into our electronic devices along with their operating systems. Every time you use your PC, it takes precious minutes to boot up and power down. Your PDA never holds quite enough data. Your cellphone's battery fades before you can finish your list of calls and check your email. Your notebook computer crashes …

News

Technology

Cutting Edge

News

Technology

Last of the tea clippers saved from decay

News

Technology

Imaging thin air can spot lung disease

News

Technology

Don't Shoot!

News

Technology

Biodefence clean-up

News

Technology

Polyglot keyboard

News

Technology

Power of the midday sun

News

Ice melt may dry out US west coast

News

Hippos discover their long-lost relatives are all at sea

News

In the beginning were midwives

News

Jungle fashion

News

Gene is big risk factor in autism

News

Brain's wiring may make you fat or thin

News

Astronomers close in on monster black hole

News

Fossil arm good for press-ups

News

Chocolatey pregnancy keeps baby happy

News

Technology

Lost? Send snap and SOS to...

News

Technology

The robot's guide to perfect steering

News

Brazil's beef trade wrecks rainforest

News

Forget the cause of diseases, just find the cures

News

Chromosome clock ticks out our fate

News

Terror is the best remedy for phobias

News

Is this the earliest sign of human culture?

News

Health

'Chemical condom' tantalisingly close

News

Phone radiation may push cells around

News

Diet of worms protects against bowel disease

News

Soundbites

News

A health fad that's hard to swallow

News

Nuclear power-up

News

Net music verdict

News

Not up in smoke

News

60 Seconds

News

Lunar to-do list

News

Gene privacy for icelanders

News

Vive la difference

News

Resistance DNA in antibiotics

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

I AGREE wholeheartedly with New Scientist that it would be foolhardy to trust technology blindly in elections that could change the world (14 February, p 3) . A fundamental part of democracy might be lost if we were to follow those US states which intend to trust e-technology at its present level of development in …

Opinion

Stars in his eyes

Opinion

Fast forward to fusion

Opinion

Strong medicine

Opinion

Features

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Xochimilco's sunken treasure

Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors caught their first glimpse of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán in November 1519. As they looked down from the mountains, the city appeared to float on the surface of a vast, shimmering lake. The Spaniards thought they had found another Venice, not realising that much of what they saw was …

Features

Fat buster

Features

Helix heresy

Features

It's the economy, stupid

Features

More

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Strung out across the universe

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Allen Lane, £25, ISBN 0713996773 LET'S face it: theoretical physics is usually a conversation-stopper at cocktail parties. True, Stephen Hawking has an enormous popular following, but that interest has as much to do with his extraordinary personality as it has with public fascination with quantum black holes …

Books & Arts

Drink up

Books & Arts

Cool mind

Books & Arts

Charged

Books & Arts

Green leader

Books & Arts

Bestsellers – Oxford

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

YOU know space tourism is becoming accepted when it gets included in credit-card offers. The online service SpaceDaily reports that American Express has added Space Adventures – the folks who sent two tourists to the International Space Station on Soyuz spacecraft – to its "membership rewards" programme. Accumulate a mere million points, and you get …

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