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27 May 2006

Issue 2553

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Solar power – seriously souped up

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Solar power – seriously souped up

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Climate change: Tearing the Earth apart?

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Climate change: Tearing the Earth apart?

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Dawn of the zombies

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Dawn of the zombies

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Smarter than the average bug

Life

Smarter than the average bug

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Phishers could start using the personal touch

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Phishers could start using the personal touch

AS IF "phishing" emails weren't already hard enough to spot, imagine hackers being able to discover which websites you visit and using this information to personalise their bogus messages. They could then send you a phishing message purporting to be from your own bank, asking you to hand over sensitive information. This is possible, Markus …

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Earth

Pacific tsunami warning system successfully tested

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Gizmo

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The next generation of prosthetic arms

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Let a chatbot help you quit

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Technology

Experts call for smarter seat belts

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Life

DNA 'barcodes' reveal many more shrimp in the sea

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Health

Caffeine shots help premature babies

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Health

Breathe in a vaccine against cervical cancer

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Life

Lobsters shun their sick buddies

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Life

Size matters to all sorts of show-offs

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Health

Heavy metals may be implicated in autism

News

Life

Mussel beds don't like it hot

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Health

Sleep your way to a slimmer body

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Life

Double rethink on prion diseases

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Life

Mendel's laws of inheritance challenged

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Health

Safety scare over 'the new gene therapy'

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Health

Human risk of vCJD revised

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Earth

Hurricane season in overdriveÂ…again

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Earth

EU fish win stay of extinction

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Technology

Can new reactors survive terror attack?

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Health

Are vitamin pills pointless?

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Earth

Canada may be caving in on Kyoto

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Earth

Controversy over claims in favour of GM corn

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Life

Spider monkeys go on the warpath

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Life

Hobbit brain 'too small' to be a new species

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Technology

How to protect fusion reactors from flare-ups

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Space

The kink at the edge of the solar system

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Soundbites

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Technology

DNA detectives crack code of mixed messages

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Space

Spotting the quantum tracks of gravity waves

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60 Seconds

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Earth

Climate change: Let the Supreme Court decide

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Opinion

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Health

Rich and poor – the unequal struggle

"AN IMBALANCE between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics," observed Plutarch, the 1st-century Greek historian. He was spot-on in both his judgements. Inequality is older than capitalism. It can also be fatal to those on the wrong side of the equation, for reasons that go beyond the effects …

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Health

Editorial: Enigmatic prion disease continues to baffle

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Only the best care will do

Opinion

Earth

Interview: A gift from the Mayans

Opinion

Life

Perspectives: The heart of emotion

Opinion

Features

Solar power – seriously souped up

Technology

Solar power – seriously souped up

IF YOU want efficient solar power, Victor Klimov has a deal for you. Give him one photon of sunlight, and he'll give you two electrons' worth of electricity. Not impressed? You should be. In all solar cells now in use – in everything from satellites to pocket calculators – each incoming photon contributes at most …

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Earth

Climate change: Tearing the Earth apart?

Features

Technology

Dawn of the zombies

Features

Life

Smarter than the average bug

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Lessons from Cambridge's top high-tech entrepreneur

ANDY HOPPER is an enigma. As head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge, nobody could argue that he hasn't excelled as a computer scientist. Yet Hopper has been equally successful in his other career as a high-tech entrepreneur. In total, Hopper has started or co-founded 13 companies, perhaps most famously Acorn Computers …

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Dr Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures many mathematical ills

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Beyond 9 to 5: Your life in time by Sarah Norgate

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Pica

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Physics: Are we nearly there yet

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Mystery island IN THE British TV show The Avengers , the story often unfolded on a mysterious military research base. The spooky work going on in sinister buildings was cloaked in a disguise of false normality by scenic English countryside, a local pub, a church and farmland. Avengers buffs might like to know that just …

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