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24 April 2004

Issue 2444

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Life

It's a jungle in there

Features
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Last of the great migrations

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When antimatter attacks…

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Quantum TV rivals plasma displays

AFTER five years of secret research, two of the world's biggest electronics companies say they have developed a picture display technology that more than halves the power consumption of large flat-screen television sets. Today's increasingly popular plasma TV screens, with a viewing area measuring 40 inches (100 centimetres) and more, consume at least 400 watts, …

News

Technology

Radio freedom

News

Technology

Cutting Edge

News

Technology

Wrappers smarten up to protect food

News

Technology

The lock with two keys

News

Technology

Hand-held poison meter

News

Technology

Life-saving chutes to rescue jet planes

News

Shells point to origin of the modern mind

News

Sky is not the limit for tallest giants of the plant world

News

Does ecstasy leave you sleepless?

News

Secrets of a starry lunch

News

Sugary start makes for a painless shot

News

Technology

The credit card that only works if you talk to it

News

Purple in a spin

News

Mine of data on human genome

News

Crows rival primates in ability to deceive

News

Slow, moonless Sedna baffles the skywatchers

News

The strange tale of the hurricane that wasn't

News

Why oceans behave like water in the bathtub

News

'Weird' meteorite from Mars moon

News

Soundbites

News

Bluetooth headsets vulnerable to hackers

News

Eat less and keep disease at bay

News

Repairing sight by night

News

Is empathy an animal quality?

News

60 Seconds

News

Dawn of a new kind of parenthood

News

Titanic trouble

News

Deadly delicacy

News

DNA convicts justice system

News

Inventor beware

News

Iron no fix

News

Space station dream is go

News

Forest grump

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

THE National Academies is a funny organisation. Congress created it in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln was president, and it now consists of four organisations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. Their job is to advise the government on scientific and technological matters. …

Opinion

We hold these freedoms to be self-evident...

Opinion

A bad case of not asking for consent

Opinion

Two parents, same sex

Opinion

Next ice age melts away

Opinion

Features

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Life

It's a jungle in there

SOMEHOW, the monkey poo had gone astray. Baffled, Glenn Gibson scratched his head. The biologist at the University of Reading, UK, had been expecting a parcel of monkey faeces from some colleagues in California. Instead, the courier had delivered an enormous box labelled "frozen pork chops". "We thought that was a bit odd," Gibson recalls. …

Features

Last of the great migrations

Features

When antimatter attacks…

Features

More

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Building the republic of reality

Politics of Nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy by Bruno Latour, Harvard University Press, £16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0674013476 SOME time ago Bruno Latour visited New Scientist. "Ah, so this is where objectivity is manufactured," he boomed. "I should like to watch you make it…" A couple of people, who had heard of him, put …

Books & Arts

The word underwater wave

Books & Arts

Pride and prejudice

Books & Arts

Trout lilies and grackles

Books & Arts

Mugs on jugs

Books & Arts

Sophisticated circles

Books & Arts

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and human knowledge by Jean-Pierre Changeux

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

READERS often come across unusual titles for scientific papers and send them to us. Here is the latest batch. Andrew Hutchins noticed a paper in Cell (vol 87, p 151) by S. Block entitled: "Fifty ways to love your lever: Myosin motors". Robert Stevens was struck by a preprint he found on the web prior …

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Letters

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