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18 September 2004

Issue 2465

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Technology

Beyond the X prize

Features
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The accidental rainforest

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Urban legends

Features
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Manna or millstone

Features
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Life

The making of the modern world

Features
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Life

Born to trade

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

PC users follow their nose

TIRED of using a mouse to control your PC? Perhaps there is another option for when your arm starts to ache: your nose. A novel PC control system lets users nudge a cursor around the screen with gentle movements of their nose. Blinking the left or right eye twice takes the place of left or …

News

Technology

Plastics get tough with nanotubes

News

Environment

Respect! Egyptians were cool for cats

News

How oil turns to acid sludge

News

Satellites spot glacier meltdown

News

Technology

Double-barrelled syringe combats contamination

News

Technology

TV sets cut to the action

News

Technology

Cracks appear in online security

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Home movies get the Hollywood treatment

News

The enemy within that targets genes

News

Mass stellar graves explain quasar mystery

News

Save rare parasites as well as primates

News

Record breaker

News

Bug turns waste to green plastic

News

On-the-spot tests fail to nail clubbers' chemical cocktails

News

How to regrow lost hearing

News

Ghost of bugs help cut pesticide use

News

Soundbites

News

Showing now at the brain's dream cinema

News

Growth hormone can turn breast cancer into killer

News

Quantum rules cut top speed for information

News

Patch and crash

News

Bonfire of rarities: Restoration begins on 50,000 fire-damaged books

News

Disease detectives

News

60 Seconds

News

Sowing the seeds of starvation

News

Altered trees hide out with the local poplars

News

Wrecked craft may give up its secrets

News

Low risk of alien invasion

News

Oxygen hitch on space station

News

Mystery blast

News

Enforcing fairness

News

Warning over toxic stockpile

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

IF A green revolution won't work, how can Africa solve its food crisis? This was the subtitle of an editorial in New Scientist (3 July, p 3) . At a recent conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Hilary Benn, secretary of state for international development, agreed with Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations and a …

Opinion

Environment

Master of the deep

Opinion

Pole position

Opinion

Editorial: Monster in the making

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Beyond the X prize

THE sight of Burt Rutan folding his lanky, six foot four inch frame into his Mini Cooper reminded me of the old circus trick in which a dozen clowns pile out of a miniature car, one by one. "Great little thing," Rutan said admiringly as he revved it into life. "Bit tight on space, but …

Features

The accidental rainforest

Features

Urban legends

Features

Manna or millstone

Features

Life

The making of the modern world

Features

Life

Born to trade

Features

More

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Naturally patterned

The Colours of Infinity by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Ian Stewart, Benoit Mandelbrot and others, Clear Books, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 1904555055 Reviewed by Kenneth Falconer FRACTALS are everywhere around us – in the shapes of clouds, mountains, trees and plants, on land, in the sea and in space, to say nothing of their occurrence throughout mathematics and science. …

Books & Arts

Cinnamon club

Books & Arts

Rating failures

Books & Arts

The hard stuff

Books & Arts

Drowning the future

Books & Arts

Marcia McNutt, president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Books & Arts

Arne Naess, philosopher and ecologist, Norway

Books & Arts

The game is on

Careers

American Flintknappers by John C. Whittaker

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK is hopefully not alone in having spent too much time at school becoming rather good at working out where soccer, rugby or other balls were heading, precisely in order to be somewhere where a high-velocity animal bladder covered in freezing mud was not. This seemed rational at the time and still does, but such …

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Regulars

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