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28 January 2006

Issue 2536

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Histories: The fire-eater's island

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Histories: The fire-eater's island

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Stirring up a quantum cocktail

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Stirring up a quantum cocktail

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Belief special: When delusion triumphs over truth

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Belief special: How evolution found God

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Belief special: How evolution found God

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Robot set loose to film your insides

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Robot set loose to film your insides

NEXT time you go under the knife, it may not be just the surgeon poking about inside you. A radio-controlled robot could be roaming round in there too, providing an extra eye for surgeons performing minimally invasive "keyhole" procedures. The robot, developed by Dmitry Oleynikov and colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in …

News

Technology

Missing a few brain cells? Print new ones

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Life

Goodbye paperclip, hello empathetic females

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Technology

Time to take your malaria pills

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Technology

Google hits back at federal search

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Technology

Gizmo

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Technology

How to spot states making secret plutonium

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Life

Viagra may have temporary effect on vision

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Earth

Cosmic rays linked to cloudy days

News

Health

This week 37 years ago

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Health

Reprieve for 'risky' Parkinson's drug

News

New US supreme court judges will affect us all

News

Life

Antipsychotic drug lessens sick rats' suicidal tendencies

News

Life

Monkey cops key to group happiness

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Space

Mars was once a wobbly planet

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Health

Superbug powers found under foot

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Life

Live fast, breed young, say apes

News

Life

Sex before stressful events keeps you calm

News

Soundbites

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Health

Are wild birds to blame for H5N1-flu's march into Europe?

News

Health

Healthy cells heal their damaged neighbours

News

Earth

UK signs death warrant for Ascension wildlife

News

Space

Earth-like planet may be first of many

News

Health

Face transplant team show off their work

News

Earth

New cloud formations blocking more sun

News

60 Seconds

News

Space

NASA's Dawn mission in budget trouble

News

Life

'Meeting of Minds' says no to thought police

News

Health

Trust in scientists shaken yet further

News

Space

Dark energy enigma just won't go away

News

Life

'Meeting of Minds' says no to thought police

News

Space

NASA's Dawn mission in budget trouble

News

Life

World's smallest vertebrate has a big secret

News

Physics

Document reveals Newton's love of alchemy

News

Opinion

Mathematical photography – beyond beauty

Physics

Mathematical photography – beyond beauty

THE British philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell once wrote: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." Sculpture is widely admired in our societies – there is hardly a public space in our cities that does not boast a sculpture of some sort. …

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: Small science is still powerful

Opinion

Physics

Editorial: Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

Opinion

Earth

Interview: Be green, think big

Opinion

Features

Histories: The fire-eater's island

Earth

Histories: The fire-eater's island

Up from the depths, Surtsey was born Early one November morning in 1963, a fissure opened in the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 kilometres south of Iceland. Red-hot magma rushed up through the crack in the Earth's crust, and icy cold ocean water poured down into it. At the surface, fishermen began to …

Features

Physics

Stirring up a quantum cocktail

Features

Life

Belief special: Glad to be gullible

Features

Life

Belief special: When delusion triumphs over truth

Features

Life

Belief special: How evolution found God

Features

Life

Belief special: What's it all about?

Features

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The man who cleaned up with maggots

I must admit, I find your product a bit gross A lot of people have that first impression. Clinicians can be quite suspicious, but patients seem to take to the idea much better. If it is a choice of having your leg amputated or trying maggots, then it is no contest. Are maggots really an …

Careers

Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder

Books & Arts

From lab to market: Commercialising your research

Careers

Life

Tasmanian Devil by David Owen and David Pemberton

Books & Arts

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The word: Timeshifting

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Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife

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Teenage terror to-do list WHAT would you think if you found someone in possession of the following list: "Mow lawn; do laundry; buy groceries; clean gutters; do homework; trim trees; mail anthrax; pick up dry-cleaning"? Doran Amos has this list. Doran Amos is not a suburban teenage terrorist. We definitely believe this reader should not …

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