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12 February 2005

Issue 2486

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Meet the global warming sceptics

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Earth

Climate change: Menace or myth?

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Technology

Robots inspired by Segway balancing act

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The Los Alamos bug

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Life

Alive! The race to create life from scratch

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News

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Technology

Forget takeout, eat a print-out

IT'S not quite the stuff of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , but the fare coming out of Homaru Cantu's kitchen is just as bizarre. In Roald Dahl's famous children's book, chewing gum is made to taste like a three-course meal. Cantu, a cordon-bleu chef, has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of …

News

Technology

Invention

News

Technology

'Podcasters' deliver radio-on-demand

News

Technology

Light-emitting line reels in the big fish

News

Technology

Million dollar reward to remove arsenic from water

News

Technology

Spammers attack while looking legit

News

Technology

Software converts camcorder into back-up drive

News

Technology

$100 laptop sought for world's poor

News

Technology

Night-vision camera turns night into day

News

Health

First partial pancreas transplant a success

News

Space

The universe is no place for megastars

News

Life

Alphabet similarities come in threes

News

Technology

The bacterial future of fuel cells

News

Health

High hopes for DNA-based TB vaccine

News

Free-falling ants steer themselves to safety

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Life

Foxes make better dogs than wolves do

News

Health

Marijuana really does cause a headrush

News

Earth

Ancient tsunami scrambled the fossil record

News

Health

Second 'designer' steroid identified

News

Soundbites

News

Space

Beagle 2 was doomed from the start

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Climate change: Act now, before it is too late

News

Earth

Climate change: Awaking the sleeping giants

News

Space

Mini star could offer haven for life

News

Technology

Experimental mini nuclear plant in the pipeline

News

Space

End of Hubble's days in sight

News

Earth

Rare rhino evacuation plan scuppered

News

Technology

Bunker-busting bombs back on US agenda

News

Health

Gene therapy trial suffers new setback

News

Life

Monkey moniker goes up for auction

News

Earth

Disaster mitigation plans take shape

News

Opinion

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Health

Interview: The heart healer

Pekka Puska was born in Vaasa, northern Finland, in 1945. He was director of the North Karelia Project in eastern Finland from 1972 to 1997. Between 2001 and 2003 he was director of the department of non-communicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a PhD in epidemiology and has …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

The great university sell out

Opinion

Space

Editorial: Beagle 2, cock-ups and conspiracy

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Climate change threat may be underestimated

Opinion

Features

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Hotly contested

1 Hockey stick hoo-ha The term "hockey stick" was adopted by Michael Mann of the University of Virginia in 1998 to describe temperature changes over the past 1000 years, as identified from proxy data such as ice cores, tree rings and isotopic analysis of coral. This followed a largely flat line for 900 years (the …

Features

Meet the global warming sceptics

Features

Earth

Climate change: Menace or myth?

Features

Technology

Robots inspired by Segway balancing act

Features

The Los Alamos bug

Features

Life

Alive! The race to create life from scratch

Features

More

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Life

Human Bones: A scientific and pictorial investigation by R McNeill Alexander

AN academic anatomist once told me that his subject was very boring because there was nothing new to say about it. He was wrong, and Human Bones beautifully illustrates why. The combination of Aaron Diskin's stunning photographs and McNeill Alexander's lucid text inspires the description of the 213 bones that make up our skeleton, from …

Books & Arts

Life

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Books & Arts

Life

Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field edited by Bonnie J Ploger and Ken Yasukawa

Books & Arts

Space

Out now in paperback

Books & Arts

Out now in paperback

Books & Arts

Technology

Gaming Hacks by Simon Carless

Books & Arts

Pioneering Research: A risk worth taking by Donald Braben

Books & Arts

A Sense of the Mysterious by Alan Lightman

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Boy shakes and girl shakes JOHN GRAY – he of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus fame – is branching out into the slimming business. Last week found him in a hired room at London's Natural History Museum launching his Mars and Venus Supershakes, which he claims are gender-specific slimming drinks. Fat men …

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