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28 May 2005

Issue 2501

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Histories: Mary through the looking glass

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11 steps to a better brain

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11 steps to a better brain

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Space

The gritty problem of Moon dust

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Invention

Barring the movie pirates Schemes to prevent movie piracy are released almost as often as new movies. The latest idea is to manipulate cinema projectors so that a movie cannot be filmed from the stalls using high-definition camcorders. Electronic projectors use red, green and blue lasers to beam a colour image onto the big screen. …

News

Earth

Clean solvents are going for green

News

Technology

Wide-screen TVs made with cheap electronics

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Life

Printing press spells out bugs' behaviour

News

Technology

Why 911 callers are left hanging

News

Earth

Monkeys found in nick of time

News

Life

Same shade of blue for me and you

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Life

Can taking the pill dull a woman's desire forever?

News

Earth

Jurassic gas left oceans of algae

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Earth

Ominous swelling at Antarctica's icy heart

News

Technology

Testing times for composite flight

News

Technology

Sea Harrier jets land on autopilot

News

Life

Can embryo-screening for IVF justify the cost?

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

Tear up Kyoto or make it tougher?

News

Equal rights for all

News

To those that have...

News

Earth

Coffee trial survives insects, but not vandals

News

Health

Exposure to pesticides can cause Parkinson's

News

Health

Low-dose aspirin may carry risks for elderly

News

Life

The burden of a lasting memory

News

Life

Earliest combatants in sexual contests revealed

News

Space

Voyager 1 reaches the edge of the solar system

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Double triumph in stem cell quest

News

Earth

Echoes of the tsunami quake

News

Space

US orbiting-armoury projects may persist

News

Health

Bird flu hits migrating geese

News

Space

Race is on for lunar air prize

News

Health

Smallpox experiments come a step closer

News

Life

Two mates good for endangered parrots

News

Health

DNA pioneer may have genome sequenced

News

Earth

Critic of GM organisms barred from Canada

News

Opinion

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A vote for science

EUROPE lives in fear of decline. It is not just about the current economic woes – unemployment stuck at high levels in France and Germany and sluggish growth in many countries. But also the threat that China and India will take away ever more jobs. It is not hard to conjure up a bleak future …

Opinion

Life

Editorial: Great expectations for embryonic stem cells

Opinion

Humans

Washington diary

Opinion

Life

Interview: Gardens in the sky

Opinion

Features

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Histories: Mary through the looking glass

On 31 August1869, Mary Ward and her husband weretravellingalonga quiet Irish road in a steam-driven car when suddenly it jolted, pitching Mary underone of its heavy iron wheels. She died almost instantly in what many believe was the first fatal automobile accident. But if Mary's death was extraordinary, so was her life. When other women …

Features

Life

11 steps to a better brain

Features

Space

The gritty problem of Moon dust

Features

More

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The Worlds of Herman Kahn by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

PREDICTIONS of a world without food kept people awake a century ago. Half a century later, the nightmare du jour was global thermonuclear war – a spectre created by the US's detonation of a hydrogen bomb in 1952, and the Soviet Union's test the next year. Soon, both superpowers possessed weapons a thousand times more …

Books & Arts

Earth

Eight books exploring the ocean depths

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Spiritual toughness test THERE have been some fairly wacky experiments done to get an empirical handle on religion, from photographing seances to the electrically wired "God helmet" that makes people swear they feel the presence of the Almighty. But among the oddest is a series funded by the Pennsylvania-based Templeton Foundation at Baroness Susan Greenfield's …

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