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26 June 2004

Issue 2453

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Psychic birds (or what?)

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Dream drug or demon brew?

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Vital statistics

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Barcode me

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News

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Technology

Sharing lightens the download

TYPICAL. You fight tooth and nail to bury a technology, arrest almost 3000 people using it for nefarious purposes, and then along comes some smart alec who says you got it all wrong. The same technology could make your fortune and have huge benefits for consumers, too. And on this occasion that smart alec is …

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The original people-carrier designed in Africa

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Constants stay put for now

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Horn damage hints at battles among the mighty triceratops

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Close-up reveals comet's icy spires

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We're all ears

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Sleepy lemur is first of its kind

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Laser op fails to cut snorers' decibels

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Seed cuisine shows up in prehistoric leftovers

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Decaf straight from the plant

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Beach blob mystery is solved at last

News

Technology

Pirates get the blues

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Technology

Steal it, but it won't work

News

Technology

PC spies report on your every move

News

The recipe for a satisfying sex life

News

Technology

Phone virus is harbinger of destruction to come

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

The end of phones as we know them

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Technology

Wi-Fi finds the way

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Map of consumption turns up a few surprises

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Egg clock 'forecasts menopause onset'

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Enigma or just noise?

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Soundbites

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Regrow your own…one day

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Scrap over Iran's nuclear site

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Tell us all

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Fossils seized

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Superbug threat

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60 Seconds

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Dawn of a new space age

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Cassini to get ringside view

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Europe – a danger to kids

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Doctor who?

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Costly clean-up

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

HE HAS been rightly eulogised as an American patriot with an enduring optimism about the future of his country. But Ronald Reagan's optimism sometimes caused him to see more promise in projects than clear scientific assessment suggested they deserved. Take his ideas for a strategic defence: Reagan called on scientists to build an impenetrable shield …

Opinion

Saying no to Saddam

Opinion

A conflict of interest

Opinion

One small flight…

Opinion

Features

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Psychic birds (or what?)

His elder brother was a big-game hunter, but bird-enthusiast Edmund Selous had a horrorof killing. In the earlyyears of the 20th century he made himself a pariah in the ornithological world through histirades against shooting wild birds and collectingtheir eggs. Surviving on a small private income, he spent his days watching birds and recording his …

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Dream drug or demon brew?

Features

Technology

Vital statistics

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Barcode me

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The word infrasound

YOU CAN'T hear it, which may be a good thing. Infrasound has a frequency below the lower limit of human hearing (about 20 hertz), and is emitted by just about every turbulent natural event on Earth, and some unnatural ones. If we could hear it, we'd be subject to a constant cacophony. If it isn't …

Books & Arts

The stones, the stones

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Wild inspiration

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From sea to shining sea

Books & Arts

Physics with swing

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Where did all the locusts go?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

DINOSAUR footprints look pretty durable. They were made in mud, but by the time palaeontologists find them the mud has turned to rock. Inevitably, the footprint wears away over the years, but they still seem substantial enough to withstand natural assault. Or so South African palaeontologist Theagarten Lingham-Soliar thought. When he found a rare metre-wide …

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