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11 February 2006

Issue 2538

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Histories: Carteret's South Sea trouble

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How to make skyscrapers safer

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How to make skyscrapers safer

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Make me a hipporoo

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Make me a hipporoo

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Life inside a black hole

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Life inside a black hole

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Technology

Tailor-printed shoes will offer a perfect fit

A MANUFACTURING process that can print you a pair of bespoke shoes could put an end to ill-fitting footwear and help usher in an era of mass customisation. The tailored shoes are built layer by layer using a form of rapid 3D printing called selective laser sintering, in which a laser fuses together particles of …

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The toughest instruction manual ever

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Technology

The world's longest laser created

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Life

20 million fish in a record-breaking shoal

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Technology

Gizmo

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Space

See Mars and Venus by balloon

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Life

Dolphin does the twist to hit the air spinning

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Life

Fishes' sex-change secret revealed

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Earth

Krakatoa eruption cooled the world

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Life

Rat sniffs have a sense of direction

News

Life

Gut reaction makes bad bugs worse

News

Life

Male 'pregnancy' isn't all in the mind

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Life

Bacteria nabbed by sweet exterior

News

Earth

Clouds gather over polluting ships

News

Earth

Thank clay for the air we breathe

News

Earth

The source of all ball lightning?

News

Life

The dino-daddy of all meat eaters

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Health

This week 42 years ago

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Earth

Uganda pulls plug on Lake Victoria

News

Earth

Insight: Has President Bush turned green?

News

Life

Red wine's anti-ageing ingredient does it again

News

Health

Hormone cheats risk it all for gold

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Soundbites

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Health

'Walk again' drugs to be tested on people

News

Health

Face transplant woman meets the press

News

Animal rights activists' violence escalates

News

Health

China is the home of bird flu

News

Earth

Synthetic wheat offers hope to the world

News

Health

Have people been smoking 'elastic' cigarettes?

News

Space

Dark matter could be tepid stuff

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Earth

Greenland's glaciers are slip-sliding away

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60 Seconds

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Technology

More spending on nanotech safety research urged

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Opinion

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Earth

Caught in the oil trap

THE World Bank's record on alleviating poverty in Africa has been patchy at best. Yet even its staunchest supporters must be holding their heads in their hands at its latest misjudgement. Its model project in Africa, held up as an example of how oil, gas or mining projects can benefit the poor, has turned into …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: No way to run a planet

Opinion

Health

Editorial: The race against cheats will run on

Opinion

Life

Interview: Extinguishing red fire ants

Opinion

Features

And now for today's health forecast...

Earth

And now for today's health forecast...

Weather warning is also a health warning LONDON had been hot and dry for days, and a thick layer of smog mingled with pollen hung over the city. As the thunder clouds rolled in on 24 June 2005, the UK's Health Forecasting Unit put hospitals on standby and issued a health warning: all hay-fever sufferers, …

Features

Earth

Histories: Carteret's South Sea trouble

Features

Technology

How to make skyscrapers safer

Features

Life

Make me a hipporoo

Features

Space

Life inside a black hole

Features

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Physics

Infinite Ascent: A short history of mathematics by David Berlinski

LESS can be more in maths, at least when it comes to its history. With a topic that is liable to die in the reader's hands before they've even reached the ancient Babylonians, David Berlinski has achieved something impressive: a snappy, marvellously readable volume with huge quantities of fact (and no mean dose of maths). …

Books & Arts

Earth

Extinction: How life on Earth nearly ended 250 million years ago

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Life

The word: Musth

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Life

In search of a second genesis

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Feedback

The White House goes boldly SHORTLY after the launch in 1957 of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, the White House Science Advisory Committee prepared an Introduction to Outer Space to sell the idea of the space race to the American people. The document, with an enthusiastic introduction by President Eisenhower, described spaceflight as "to try to …

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