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2 July 2005

Issue 2506

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Small wonders, sculpted by laser

Technology

Small wonders, sculpted by laser

Features
Primeval life reflected in present-day pools

Earth

Primeval life reflected in present-day pools

Features
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Life

Why the pharaohs never smiled

Features
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Space

Did the big bang really happen?

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

New search engine trawls through podcasts

If someone mentioned your name in a podcast, would you ever know? Not unless you had time to listen to them all. But San Francisco-based search engine Blinkx is changing that by indexing the content of podcasts. Podcasts are audio files posted online, designed to be automatically downloaded to a PC and played back on …

News

Technology

Hollywood wins file-sharing case

News

Technology

You know where you are with Wi-Fi

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Entering a dark age of innovation

News

Technology

Wearable camera restores lost memories

News

Technology

Surf's up, down at the swimming pool

News

Life

No shut-eye for baby whales

News

Space

Black holes cannot escape the phantom menace

News

Health

Vitamin C left out in the cold

News

Life

Chickadee has many calls for alarm

News

Life

Sweat makes men's magazines more appealing

News

Earth

Earth trembles as big winds move in

News

Life

Bizarre stand-off in battle of the sexes

News

Earth

Searing times ahead as the air gets cleaner

News

Health

Lasting legacy of low birthweight

News

Life

Tree tricked into nursing young wasps

News

Life

How to turn your skin into bone

News

Space

Zap goes a chunk of our cosmic past

News

Health

Genetically altered cells made immune to HIV

News

Physics

France to build world's largest fusion reactor

News

Sugar subsidies to melt away

News

60 Seconds

News

Health

Africa focus: Foundations for a prosperous future

News

Earth

Shark fin soup dropped from Disney's menu

News

Earth

New UK nuclear plants could prove costly

News

Earth

Whaling ban stays in place

News

Health

Ballooning US waistlines swell healthcare costs

News

Earth

Rising seas could destroy nuclear dump

News

Opinion

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Space

Cosmos 1: A noble effort

FAREWELL, then, Cosmos 1, the world's first spacecraft designed to sail on light beams alone. After years of planning, the craft was lost soon after launch last week when the rocket taking it into orbit crashed into the ocean. Heroic failure or amateurish incompetence? The question is especially pertinent since Cosmos 1 was conceived by …

Opinion

Editorial: Cancelling Africa's debt will only go so far

Opinion

Space

Editorial: Big bang doubts fuel cosmology boom

Opinion

Life

Interview: Are the kids alright after all?

Opinion

Features

Small wonders, sculpted by laser

Technology

Small wonders, sculpted by laser

IT COULD be the world's smallest fence: a chain of five crude, squarish links is strung between posts just 40 micrometres apart. This microscopic barrier marks the threshold of a new world of fabrication. The interlocking links of the chain would be impossible to make using conventional microfabrication techniques. Instead, they were conjured into existence …

Features

Earth

Primeval life reflected in present-day pools

Features

Life

Why the pharaohs never smiled

Features

Space

Did the big bang really happen?

Features

More

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Physics

The word: White holes

WE'RE all familiar with black holes, those exotic beasts that we believe populate the universe, lurking in the hot cores of galaxies and sucking in everything that gets too close. Black holes emerge from Einstein's theory of general relativity; they are the graves of stars, places where space-time becomes curved beyond recognition. But an even …

Regulars

Hot, hot, hot

Books & Arts

Face your public

Books & Arts

Ain't simplifyin'

Books & Arts

A nice little earner

Careers

Life

Review: A cure for the war epidemic

Books & Arts

Life

Second sight: A whole new world

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Remote chicken stroking PEOPLE who are both fond of animals and allergic to them can shout "Hallelujah!". Adrian David Cheok and colleagues at the National University of Singapore have developed the Touchy Internet system. It connects users to a real chicken via a chicken-shaped doll, an array of sensors and a webcam link. The idea …

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