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10 July 2004

Issue 2455

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Catch 'em on the rye

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Natural born cannibals

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Extreme surfing

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Doctors' dilemma

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Terahertz shines a light on terrorists

THE next generation of security screening systems will be based on so-called terahertz technology that can see weapons and explosives hidden under people's clothes. But using terahertz radiation to produce X-ray-like images of passengers is likely to be unacceptable for routine use, as it will allow security staff to see the people they are scanning …

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Radio sans frontières

News

Technology

Pushy people do quake tests

News

Technology

Shape memory passwords

News

Technology

Sea change for drinking water

News

Technology

Hi-fi failure helps to brighten beer

News

Technology

A message from beyond the grave high-tech style

News

No night respite

News

Selenium helps protect baby

News

Deceitful primates have biggest brains

News

Technology

How to build a nanomachine

News

All eyes on the orange banana

News

Plankton fail to go with flow

News

Bursting balloons break sound barrier

News

Ancestor identity crisis

News

Lamprey evolved alternative immune system

News

Passive smoking's true dangers

News

Neutrino blast heralds birth of a supernova

News

With grandparents came civilisation

News

Peat bogs harbour carbon time bomb

News

How plants evolved big broad leaves

News

First images of Saturn's rings bring surprises

News

Maybe our ovaries do make eggs throughout life

News

A table-top test for dark energy?

News

Blame lifestyle for myopia, not genes

News

Soundbites

News

US privacy ruling

News

No time to act

News

Settlers in their midst

News

Cometh a plague

News

Super-fit bird flu

News

Bad blood

News

60 Seconds

News

Vaccine scandal revives cancer fear

News

Does SV40 contamination matter?

News

To truly see an animal, look it in the eye

News

China steps up text control

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

ONE of the most significant decisions of the century so far must be the Chinese government's plan to treble the capacity of its coal-fired power stations by 2020. It is essential that we engage with China to ensure effective technology transfer – not least on cleaner coal technology, which could have a major impact on …

Opinion

Space

Where doctors dare

Opinion

Nuclear double standards

Opinion

Nothing to fear from the facts

Opinion

Mission accomplished

Opinion

Features

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Catch 'em on the rye

For Roy and Neva Gordon, 10 August1937 was a bad day. Six days earlier, they had been in a three-car pile-up in Marion county, Indiana. Now they were in court. Neva faced charges of being drunk, Roy ofdrunk driving. The couple had picked the wrongtime and the wrong state to have one too many. The …

Features

Natural born cannibals

Features

Extreme surfing

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Doctors' dilemma

Features

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If the facts fit…

Explanations edited by John Cornwell, Oxford University Press, £18.99, ISBN 0198607784 EXPLANATIONS are the stock-in-trade of scientists. Those who come up with really good ones can expect to win the plaudits of their colleagues, and the rest of us may sometimes share the satisfaction of seeing a piece of the cosmic jigsaw puzzle fall into …

Books & Arts

Silent running

Books & Arts

Forward thinking

Careers

The odd bunch

Books & Arts

Machines Who Think by Pamela McCorduck

Books & Arts

Carbon conundrum

Books & Arts

Mission improbable

Books & Arts

Dark arts

Books & Arts

So far so good

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

CHRIS Elliott's name comes well down the circulation list for New Scientist at his work, so it was a while before he read our story about the Kyocera batteries that are liable to "rapid disassembly" (17 April) . When he did, he couldn't help feeling a twinge of sympathy. He is an engineer working in …

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