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1 July 2006

Issue 2558

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Earth

Histories: The parable of the vanishing fish

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Why aliens love a good moon

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Why aliens love a good moon

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Sobering news for pregnant women

Health

Sobering news for pregnant women

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The net reloaded

Technology

The net reloaded

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Out of Asia

Life

Out of Asia

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Table of contents

News

Marine census will monitor health of the oceans

Life

Marine census will monitor health of the oceans

If you have ever looked out to sea and wished you could see the full miscellany of life swimming in its depths, you are not alone. Marine scientists have long wished for a clear picture of the movements and lifestyle of ocean species. Now researchers are planning a global project to tag numerous important marine …

News

Life

Play it cool if you want to win an online auction

News

Technology

Printing flaws reveal the age of historic documents

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Desalination may be best hope to slake world's thirst

News

Technology

Device records smells to play back later

News

Technology

'Plasma needle' could replace the dentist's drill

News

Space

Nanoparticles light up the galaxy like a Christmas tree

News

Space

Superhot solar bubbles burst over the Earth

News

Life

Bloodsucker knows its victim by the sound of its breathing

News

Life

Boys with older brothers born to be gay

News

Life

Ancient jewellery points to early origins of language

News

Life

World's oldest spider's web contains uneaten prey

News

Technology

Get off the phone if you're caught in a thunderstorm

News

Life

Reluctant mice reveal seat of female libido

News

Life

Pride really does come before a fall

News

Life

Alien species at the gates of Antarctica

News

Life

Domestication set dog genes free

News

This week 34 years ago

News

Life

'Virgin birth' stem cells bypass ethical objections

News

Soundbites

News

Health

Killer tomatoes attack human diseases

News

Life

DNA tests solve mystery of giant apes

News

Health

Hope for therapeutic cloning despite hype and fraud

News

Earth

Bikini islanders sceptical of plans to clean up atoll

News

Health

Dolly's cloning revolution fails to materialise

News

Life

Rock climbers not guilty of destroying plant life

News

60 Seconds

News

Life

Diplomats implicated in illegal wildlife trade

News

Health

Bogus emailer tries to get bird flu paper withdrawn

News

Earth

Carbon emissions to go on trial in US

News

Health

Vets demand official rejection of homeopathy

News

Earth

US Congress starts to believe in climate change

News

Opinion

This is no way to save the whales

Life

This is no way to save the whales

THE International Whaling Commission has become a liability. It is supposed to stand for the conservation of whales and the policing of whale hunting. What it really stands for is the relentless abuse of marine biology. Take this year's meeting of the IWC, which wrapped up on the island of St Kitts last week. It …

Opinion

Health

After the hype: What Dolly the sheep really did for us

Opinion

Life

Life is unpredictable – get used to it

Opinion

Features

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Earth

Histories: The parable of the vanishing fish

WHEN Maud Montagu became abbess of England's great Benedictine abbey at Barking in 1377, she inherited a serious problem. The abbey was struggling to recover from a series of great floods, the result of tidal surges driven up the Thames by terrible storms in the North Sea. The abbey relied on revenues from its land …

Features

Life

Why aliens love a good moon

Features

Health

Sobering news for pregnant women

Features

Technology

The net reloaded

Features

Life

Out of Asia

Features

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Just how healthy is British science?

There is no denying that scientists in the US leave a pretty big footprint. If you doubt it, take a look at how their research effort compares with that of their competitors from other countries (see "World research footprints") . The US indisputably outperforms all other nations across a range of measures showing the vigour …

Careers

Technology

The word: Óbidos

Regulars

String weary

Books & Arts

Not-so-wild America

Books & Arts

Life

Art meets science for the first time

Books & Arts

Physics

Review: Something from nothing

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Water that can read MEGA-funded Big Science is all very well, but Feedback has decided it is time to launch the Kitchen Science Unit, to bring the delights of Occam's razor home, next to the cheese-slice. We thank Mike Bennett for suggesting its first experiment. Pondering the foundations of the claims made at www.willau.com for …

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Letters

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