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19 August 2006

Issue 2565

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Superconductivity – the path of no resistance

Technology

Superconductivity – the path of no resistance

Features
Thwarting the nuclear smugglers

Technology

Thwarting the nuclear smugglers

Features
What makes you you? Ask your genome

Life

What makes you you? Ask your genome

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

How to tell when your data takes the scenic route

If you support net neutrality – the principle that all data packets routed around the internet should receive equal priority – soon you could help the cause personally by donating your spare computing power. Imitating the popular SETI@home project, which harnesses 150,000 home computers worldwide to help search for signs of alien life, a group …

News

Technology

New device offers 'sight' through sound

News

Technology

Russian guilty of 'dual-use' crime

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Internet search engines go on trial

News

Technology

Vietnam censors use porn as a smokescreen

News

Space

At what cost, the saving of satellites?

News

Health

Time your protein with your workout

News

Life

Long-frozen male mice father offspring

News

Earth

US forests face Chinese invader

News

Life

Puppies sniff out their mothers in the womb

News

Life

New brain cells die without a job to do

News

Life

Single gene turns fruit flies into fighters

News

Life

Smelly squirrels fool hungry snakes

News

Earth

Seismic scan of Etna reveals an eruption in the making

News

This week 10 years ago

News

Life

Polygamous possums turn to pairing for life

News

Life

Dogs play host to world's oldest cancer

News

Life

Vaccine to fend off HIV moves a step closer

News

Soundbites

News

Space

Flybys may be key to Pioneer anomaly

News

Earth

Revealing the dawn of photosynthesis

News

Health

Can taxation curb obesity?

News

Life

Is abstinence policy failing to fight HIV?

News

Earth

Oxygen-starved water creates marine 'dead zone'

News

Life

New species of sea urchin found in eBay auctions

News

Health

Concern over pharmaceuticals' 'special offer' marketing

News

Health

Potential new ADHD drug hits snag

News

Life

Why doesn't America believe in evolution?

News

Life

How should we treat ancient skeletons?

News

Technology

What airports must do to sniff out liquid explosives

News

Health

What really happened in UK drug trial disaster?

News

Earth

Glaciers heading for point of no return

News

60 Seconds

News

Opinion

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Life

Stop television unravelling your reality

BEWARE your TV. Depending on who you listen to, it makes you more violent, increases obesity and consumption of tobacco and alcohol, encourages risky sexual behaviour and leads to greater social isolation. If you still aren't convinced of the dangers, try this one: the way television covers current affairs so distorts your sense of reality …

Opinion

Health

Only drugs can stop the sports cheats

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Stopping the airline bombers

Opinion

Science truth, found in fiction

Opinion

Features

Superconductivity – the path of no resistance

Technology

Superconductivity – the path of no resistance

To most people it looks rather unremarkable, a brown powder that wouldn't attract as much as a second glance. But to Warren Pickett, this dust is more precious than gold. It has even inspired him to draw up a blueprint for a material that many people think is impossible: a superconductor that works in the …

Features

Technology

Thwarting the nuclear smugglers

Features

Life

What makes you you? Ask your genome

Features

More

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Thereby hangs a tail

A scientist and an engineer were looking at the picture above, entitled Tails from the Nozzle Bank . The scientist waxed lyrical about the quintessential beauty of science at the micro-scale. "It's upside down," said the engineer. He was right of course: Newton's law of gravity applies to ink drops as well as apples. But …

Books & Arts

Physics

Where mind meets quantum matter

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Bat walking

Regulars

Earth

Human Impacts on Amazonia, edited by Darrell Addison Posey and Michael J Balick

Books & Arts

Space

Exhibition – The Starry Messenger: Visions of the universe

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

What happened at Shingle Street? AS WE recently reported, you can get to wander with binoculars round the Ministry of Defence weapons testing grounds at Foulness on the English east coast simply by booking a birdwatching lunch at the island's government-owned pub (Feedback, 27 May). Curiosity piqued, the other day we ventured further up the …

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