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18 June 2005

Issue 2504

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Life

Homo floresiensis: The little troublemaker

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Histories: Desperate measures

Histories: Desperate measures

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Technology

Flying high with virtual airways

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Life

Autistic and proud of it

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Physics

Discovering the true nature of reality

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News

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Technology

Light shines bright from tiny antenna

VISIBLE light should be about as compatible with nanotechnology as a sledgehammer is with a fine Swiss watch. That's because it has a wavelength of 400 to 700 nanometres, while nanotech structures are measured in tens of nanometres. Yet researchers have found a way to overcome this obstacle, by creating a nanoscale optical antenna which …

News

Technology

Tiny brush cleans up the nano world

News

Earth

Ancient glimpse of seas' bleak future

News

Life

Butterfly 'blinks' scare predatory birds

News

Earth

Satellites see heat kilometres beneath Antarctica

News

Space

Molten rocks zoomed around early solar system

News

Life

How to improve semen quality?

News

Health

Bout of fear boosts immunity

News

Life

Is your personality defined by your jumpers?

News

Life

Junk DNA keeps a vole devoted

News

Earth

Wind turbines a breeze for migrating birds

News

Health

Fat speeds ageing more than cigarettes

News

Life

Competent faces win electoral races

News

Technology

Taking a trip down memory-chip lane

News

Technology

Notes on the net

News

Health

Killer fungi could cut malaria deaths

News

Technology

Talking heads may replace texts

News

Technology

Digital camera big enough to snap a galaxy

News

Life

Space suits with geology skills built in

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Pressure is on to lift whaling ban

News

Earth

Politics left UK nuclear waste plans in disarray

News

Soundbites

News

Life

Next in line for genome sequencing

News

Physics

No paradox for time travellers

News

Life

Italy's tough fertility law to stay

News

Space

The biggest 4th July explosion ever?

News

Space

Earth's 'planetary kin' found nearby

News

Earth

Japan's tax on plastic sacks

News

Earth

US climate change assessments 'misrepresented'

News

Life

Mile-high cellphones may block ET's call

News

Health

Promising TB drug begins clinical trials

News

Opinion

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Dying in the name of fashion

FUR is back, and in a big way. Global retail sales of fur have risen each year for the past six years. In 1999 $9 billion of fur goods were traded in the world's shops and markets; last year that figure stood at nearly $12 billion, and the trend shows few signs of changing course. …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: No free-for-all on whaling

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: How not to deal with nuclear waste

Opinion

Physics

Interview: The final frontier

Opinion

Features

Histories: Desperate measures

Histories: Desperate measures

By the summer of 1867, Sweden knew hard times were coming. It had rained every day that year and the summer was cold – worse even than the awful summer before. The harvests failed. Food prices rose. People rioted. Priests advised their parishioners to eke out what little they had by mixing bark into their …

Features

Technology

Flying high with virtual airways

Features

Life

Homo floresiensis: The little troublemaker

Features

Life

Autistic and proud of it

Features

Physics

Discovering the true nature of reality

Features

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Biowar – Good for Business?

LAST year President Bush signed the Project BioShield act, releasing $5.6 billion for a national stockpile of vaccines and therapeutic and diagnostic supplies. And the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has taken a lead with biodefence R&D, from backing new biosafety labs to handing out small …

Careers

Life

Biomedicine and the Human Condition by Michael Sargent

Books & Arts

Life

The Complete World of Human Evolution by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews

Books & Arts

Where's the smart money going in biotech?

Careers

Life

Why Birds Sing: A journey into the mystery of bird song, by David Rothenberg

Books & Arts

The word: Slime mould

Regulars

Regulars

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Feedback

Red, the fastest colour THE gardening column of the London Daily Mail may not be the first place to look for breakthroughs in physics, but just occasionally that's where you will find them – as, for example, on 28 May, when it wondered why certain colours appear more dominant than others. Why, it asked, do …

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