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11 June 2005

Issue 2503

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Histories: A riot of sneezes

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Should medicine be colour-coded?

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Technology

Building the A380

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The replicator: create your own body double

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Technology

Kinky bypass grafts last longer

GET kinky. Go with the flow. This is not a lifestyle recommendation, it's the latest advice to vascular surgeons. Evidence is mounting that bypass grafts work much better, and last much longer, if they have helical twists. When surgeons make a graft to bypass a blockage in a blood vessel they often have to use …

News

Technology

Gamers turn cities into a battleground

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Technology

Petrol-lite prevents sniffers getting high

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Technology

You can tell it's porn by the .XXX

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Technology

EU gets connected

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Life

Supercomputer to copy human brain

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Life

Feeling pain and witnessing it have same effect on muscles

News

Life

Nuclear DNA of ancient bears sequenced

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Physics

Researchers break record for stopping light in its tracks

News

Technology

Imitation makes digital characters more lifelike

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Should deadly viruses be used to treat cystic fibrosis?

News

Earth

Melting permafrost pulls plug on Arctic lakes

News

Earth

Climate evidence finds us guilty as charged

News

Health

How to beat the fungus that turns peanuts into poison

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Health

New suspect implicated in the development of cancer

News

Life

Obsessive behaviour linked to low oestrogen levels

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Space

Cassini discovers methane-spewing volcano on Titan

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Space

Red planet has its own spectacular light shows

News

Life

Tyrannosaurus femur proves she was a female

News

Life

Genes blamed for fickle female orgasm

News

Life

Pesticides reduce fertility in males and their offspring

News

Space

Plasma in reactors echoes distribution of galaxies

News

Life

Dolphins teach their offspring how to use sponges

News

Life

Creator of Finding Nemo puts shark-fin soup on the menu

News

Health

Mystery over Chinese denial of wildfowl flu deaths

News

Life

Smithsonian commits creationism gaffe

News

Earth

British conservationist to lose posts after climate claims

News

Life

Scientists confess their experimental sins

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Earth

Fresh quake alert for islands reeling from tsunami

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Health

Vaccine hope for future marburg outbreaks

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Life

China prepares to send seeds into space

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Opinion

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Nanotechnology: making the world better?

IT IS a serious fallacy to think that technology is ethically neutral. Far from it. Whether it is nuclear power or wind power, railway engines or siege engines, PCs or WCs, the artefacts and systems of technology are always a reflection of the values, concerns and aspirations of the society that produces them. As a …

Opinion

Health

Editorial: race-specific drug is not black and white

Opinion

Life

Neuroscience: What's on your mind?

Opinion

Features

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Histories: A riot of sneezes

Something unseen was attacking Daniel Webstersomething so incapacitating that America's greatest orator was nearly struck dumb. "I use the confidential hand of another to write you a short letter," the senator-turnedsecretary of state admitted to President Fillmore in September 1850. "I read nothing, and hardly write anything but signatures." Indeed, Webster's health had become so …

Features

Life

Should medicine be colour-coded?

Features

Technology

Building the A380

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Technology

The replicator: create your own body double

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The Word: Emotional incontinence

HAVE you ever burst into laughter at a highly inopportune moment – in a business meeting, say, or at a funeral? If you have, you'll know a bit about what it feels like to suffer from emotional incontinence. It really is no laughing matter. Emotional incontinence, also known as Pseudobulbar Affect or pathological laughter, is …

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Life

Tending the Wild: Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources by M. Kat Anderson

Books & Arts

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Feedback

Google's small world THE Google empire gets vaster every day. Now it includes a map service at maps.google.com , with search facilities, direction-finders, locations of businesses and so on. Starting with, say, a map of the UK, you can zoom in right down to individual streets, or use the mouse to wander around a town, …

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