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16 October 2004

Issue 2469

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Bean there, dung that

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Alchemy in birdland

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Life

Glad to be A

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Total recall

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Liquid universe

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The bigger picture

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New art or new threat?

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Picture this

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The next generation

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Table of contents

News

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Stem cells can heal from afar

STEM cells can help treat diseases by releasing growth factors, not just by replacing diseased tissue. A team at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has shown that injecting embryonic stem cells into female mice before they become pregnant partially corrects a genetic heart defect in their offspring (Science, vol 306, p 247). …

News

Not a killer but a protector

News

Life

Sniff, and you want to make babies too

News

Small star or giant planet?

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Trees implicated in air pollution

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Soundbites

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How to turn a superbug into an ordinary bug

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A bioweapon like no other

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Flu crisis need not cost lives

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Milky way's radiation shows up a dark centre

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Not in the blood

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The light way to control computers

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Zap! Some more bacteria are genetically modified

News

Dinosaurs died out at height of success

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The people who are sure they've seen it all before

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Were volcanoes creation's crucible?

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Initial results of eco-audit

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Nobel peace prize

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Life

Gay genetics

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Nuclear booty

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60 Seconds

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The great American voting experiment

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Genghis Khan's grave in sight

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CO2 jump triggers climate panic

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Hit the uploaders

News

Opinion

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Voice of the people

Miguel Rocha was brought up in the Amazonian forest but went to school in Manaus, the only one of 19 brothers and sisters to get an education. He worked in business and became an expert in speedboat motors before turning to eco-tourism. In the mid-1990s he set up a charitable foundation in Novo Airão, near …

Opinion

Life

Westminster diary: selecting babies' sex

Opinion

Hunt the bomb

Opinion

Life

Editorial: The complexity of sex

Opinion

Farewell film, and thanks for all the pics

Opinion

Features

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Bean there, dung that

FOOD scientist Massimo Marcone was beginning to despair. He had been in Ethiopia for almost two weeks in search of the source of the most exotic beverage on the planet, and he still hadn't found a thing. Then, one hot afternoon in the scrubland outside the town of Abdela, one of his scouts made a …

Features

Alchemy in birdland

Features

Life

Glad to be A

Features

Total recall

Features

Liquid universe

Features

The bigger picture

Features

New art or new threat?

Features

Picture this

Features

The next generation

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Gloom and boom

Context rules from maths to history. John Cornwell's Hitler's Scientists (Penguin, £8.99/$16) contemplates science in Germany from its flowering in the 19th century, its perverse role as helpmate of Nazis, to its collapse at the end of the second world war. Laying bare the vulnerability of research to its funders and consumers forces the reader …

Books & Arts

Mind

Brainstorming

Careers

Eating apes by Dale Peterson

Books & Arts

What if?

Books & Arts

Fit mother

Books & Arts

In praise of pigs

Books & Arts

Heavyweight beasts

Books & Arts

Before the flood

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FOR anyone who has wondered why some shops keep playing one particular music radio station in the background, we may have the convoluted answer. The radio industry is experimenting with new ways of measuring how many people listen to which radio stations and for how long. It wants to get away from the old system …

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