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12 March 2005

Issue 2490

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Looking for trouble with the 'one-minute scan'

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It's written all over your face

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Charity begins at Homo sapiens

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The bubble that ate the universe

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The bubble that ate the universe

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Technology

Videotape reaches the end of the reel

HOWEVER fancy the camcorder you buy, you are still faced with the daunting prospect of editing your footage. And this means poring over a pile of (probably unlabelled) DV tapes, winding back and forth through them to find the best bits, and re-recording them onto a PC before you can splice them together. It's a …

News

Technology

Roll-up digital displays move closer to market

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Technology

Invention

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Technology

Colour profile exposes faked or stolen gems

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Technology

Robotic aircraft could map forest fires

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Technology

Owner's face provides cellphone protection

News

Technology

Channel-switcher torments couch potatoes

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Earth

Sooty skies blight Asia's climate

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Life

Perform last if you want to come first

News

Health

Breakthrough in premature ageing

News

Health

Online database reveals normal gene expression

News

Earth

Sea life's long-term highs and lows

News

Health

Migraine herb may help fight cancer

News

Health

Worst effects of toxic mould are 'in the mind'

News

Technology

Fingerprinting technique enjoys notable success

News

Technology

Light microscope sees the nanoworld

News

Health

Row erupts over WHO's malaria 'miscalculation'

News

Earth

Prehistoric farmers felled forests after all

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Life

Flores fossil passes unique species test

News

Space

Young star's X-rays are a mystery

News

Earth

Arctic ozone wiped out by solar storms

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Earth

Monarch butterfly in sudden trouble

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Space

Paperwork stops space privateers building lunar lander

News

Health

Ecstasy may trigger gene-linked depression

News

Space

Evidence of dark energy missed 30 years ago

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Life

Embryo cells not like peas in a pod

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Health

Laughing all the way to a healthier heart

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Technology

Simple twist untangles quantum computing

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60 Seconds

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Physics

Why it is hard to share the wealth

News

Technology

3D animation gives evidence more bite

News

Soundbites

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Health

Peckish pilferers caught out by snack attack

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Earth

Forest policy in the dock as court battle ignites

News

Space

NASA sends Columbia wreckage for external study

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Earth

Illegal GM soybeans go legit in Brazil

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US War on Drugs a 'tragic failure'

News

Health

Kidney 'swap shop' offers patients hope

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Opinion

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Is nanotechnology "the next GM"?

ON A snowy Friday last month, a small group of scientists, campaigners and others gathered in London's Science Museum to hear Lord Sainsbury, the UK's science minister, announce how the government plans to regulate nanotechnologies. The fact that the majority of visitors to the museum were oblivious to this excited cluster in their midst seemed …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Egg and sperm donating dilemma

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Life

Interview: Hooked on catfish

Opinion

Features

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Technology

Looking for trouble with the 'one-minute scan'

BILL Casarella awoke in the recovery room after a 5-hour operation with excruciating pain in his chest and his body riddled with tubes and catheters. A few weeks earlier, a scan had revealed nodules in his lungs. When further tests proved inconclusive, Casarella, a 65-year-old radiologist from Atlanta, Georgia, had undergone surgery to remove the …

Features

Life

It's written all over your face

Features

Life

Charity begins at Homo sapiens

Features

Physics

The bubble that ate the universe

Features

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Victor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The art of avoiding errors by Laurie Dahlberg

IN an abandoned house I found a family in photographs. A Victorian matriarch in jet beads and silk, a first world war soldier in a new uniform, seaside snaps, weddings, boxers, a child in a coffin. I could not understand how a family left its past behind, but I was fascinated by the technology – …

Books & Arts

Life

How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature by H H Shugart

Books & Arts

Life

Rats by Robert Sullivan

Books & Arts

Technology

Electronic Brains by Mike Hally

Books & Arts

Baywatch...

Careers

Life

If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the canine mind by Vilmos Csanyi

Books & Arts

Bestsellers – London

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Pushed by elephants IMAGINE four baby elephants pushing hard. This contribution to our collection of unusual units comes from an advertising booklet from a tyre company. It illustrates the "5 g s of force" that racing drivers experience. Generously leaving aside the distinction between acceleration and force, and the considerable differences among baby elephants, Dez …

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