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14 August 2004

Issue 2460

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Deep heat

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Cancer unplugged

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The planet that stalked the Earth

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Triumph of the machines

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News

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Technology

First people on Mars will be shrink-wrapped

IF THE mission to Mars outlined by President Bush goes ahead in 2020, astronauts taking a walk on the planet are going to need specially designed spacesuits. Wearing one might feel a little like wearing an inflated blood-pressure cuff all over your body, if the prototype sleeve that New Scientist tried on is anything to …

News

Technology

Chattering emails

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Technology

Latest hits on your box

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Technology

It's curtains for video pirates

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Leeches keep skin transplants alive

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Technology

Tags to banish forgetfulness

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Technology

I missed that, could you rewind

News

Technology

Cutting edge

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Flying blankets threaten satellites

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Rome's ancient fisheries confirm sea-level fears

News

Wonder dwarf

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Big birds go for smaller mates

News

The handwriting flourishes a forger can't fake

News

What went bump in the night

News

Are you too sexy for your name?

News

Learn your place in the pecking order

News

Virus linked to prostate cancer

News

Gene off-switch puts us in charge

News

Alaska rattled by melting ice

News

Decay at the heart of the big bang's antimatter puzzle

News

Some dolphins are the life and soul of the party

News

Soundbites

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IVF raises risk of birth defect

News

Corals change partners to cope with the heat

News

Do cosmic rays hold sway over climate?

News

Bone rings hold the secrets to dinosaurs' enormous size

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Iran vindicated?

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60 Seconds

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Cheating is easier than you think

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Surge in poaching

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Growth hormone: next year's news

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vCJD woes ahead

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Rival team joins race for space

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No need to panic

News

Alien deadline

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Fresh nuke accident in Japan

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Opinion

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The true cost of meat

Robert Lawrence is Edyth Schoenrich professor of preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. After medical school, he was part of the epidemic intelligence service at the CDC. He spent 11 years on government preventive task forces, then decided to concentrate on the big issues underlying disease, such as food …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Nothing like the truth

Opinion

Sport, lies and steroids

Opinion

Features

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Deep heat

"THIS is our gold," Gudmundur Omar Fridleifsson beams, as steam rising from the ground mists up his glasses. "Geothermal, hydrogen…and fish." The wind changes direction and we get a sulphurous lungful. "In Iceland we call this 'the pleasant smell'," he adds. The first thing you notice about Iceland are the bleak, moss-covered lava flows overlooked …

Features

Cancer unplugged

Features

The planet that stalked the Earth

Features

Triumph of the machines

Features

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Exhausting adventure

Valverde's Gold by Mark Honigsbaum, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, ISBN 0374191700 Reviewed by Roy Herbert RESEARCHING a book on malaria, Mark Honigsbaum ran across the 19th-century English botanist Richard Spruce on his quest for cinchona trees, the source of quinine to treat the disease. Honigsbaum discovered that Spruce had also "stumbled on" a map …

Books & Arts

Tedium and terror

Books & Arts

Fluffy dinosaurs

Books & Arts

Garden under the sea

Books & Arts

Regulars

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