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23 September 2006

Issue 2570

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Revival of the fittest

Life

Revival of the fittest

Features
The good, the fad, and the unhealthy

Health

The good, the fad, and the unhealthy

Features
Fuels gold: Big risks of the biofuel revolution

Earth

Fuels gold: Big risks of the biofuel revolution

Features
Do the laws of nature last forever?

Space

Do the laws of nature last forever?

Features

Table of contents

News

Robot infantry get ready for the battlefield

Technology

Robot infantry get ready for the battlefield

Sword totes a standard machine gun "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply." So said the armed robot in Paul Verhoeven's 1987 movie RoboCop . The suspect drops his weapon but a fault in the robot's software means it opens fire anyway. Nearly two decades later, such fictional weapon-toting robots are …

News

Life

Not scared? we'll try harder then

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Technology

Uncovering the hazards in our electronic gadgets

News

Technology

Listening for breaking bones

News

Technology

The successor to High-Definition TV?

News

This week 42 years ago

News

Health

If it stops plague, will it stop hospital superbugs?

News

Earth

Hurricane Katrina's waves felt in California

News

Life

Snooze your way to high test scores

News

Life

Sex mad prairie dogs fall prey to bold foxes

News

Life

Household pets keep kids healthy

News

Life

Activating the feeling of being followed

News

Earth

A coral can't change its alga

News

Space

Extreme gravity no sweat for Einstein

News

Health

Tan stimulant may bronze even the fairest skins

News

Earth

Icy secret of a storm's ferocity is location

News

Earth

A reality check for conservationists

News

Life

Oldest writing of the New World discovered

News

Soundbites

News

Space

The riddle of the inflatable planets

News

Earth

Rich nations put something rotten in Africa

News

Life

The amazing fossil of 'Lucy's little sister'

News

Animal rights activists jailed in the US

News

Life

Doubts over efficacy of morning after pill

News

Earth

Ice the size of Texas melts in one year

News

Life

Tree has twice as many genes as us

News

Darfur deaths underplayed

News

Earth

Draining US reservoirs to battle shortages

News

Life

Animal welfare: See things from their perspective

News

Life

Frogs' legs are their undoing

News

60 Seconds

News

Opinion

Biotechnology – is it moving too fast?

Life

Biotechnology – is it moving too fast?

David Suzuki Imagine bacteria that could spread through our bodies to scavenge mercury or other pollutants and then extrude them from a pimple. Or plants that continue to photosynthesise under very low light conditions, or food crops that can survive in highly salinated soils. Such boons are the promise of biotechnology. We expect to be …

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Biofuels – a paler shade of green

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Is diet the key to beating disease?

Opinion

Life

Interview: All the world's a stage

Opinion

Features

Revival of the fittest

Life

Revival of the fittest

The seeds waited comfortably for 200 years In March 1803, the Henriette anchored off Cape Town, near Africa's southern tip. Homeward bound from China with a cargo of tea, porcelain and silks, the ship had stopped to take on supplies for the final leg of its voyage. For two weeks, Dutch merchant Jan Teerlink toured …

Features

Health

The good, the fad, and the unhealthy

Features

Earth

Fuels gold: Big risks of the biofuel revolution

Features

Space

Do the laws of nature last forever?

Features

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Life

The word: Qiviut

GO TO Alaska in tourist season and someone might ask "wanna buy some qiviut?" They're not trying to sell you something that will make the tundra appear full of purple poppies; what you are being offered is the wool of the musk ox. What makes qiviut (pronounced "kiv-ee-ute") special? The musk ox (which isn't actually …

Regulars

Science essay competition 2006

Books & Arts

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Feedback

Magnetic Super Food? AFTER all the quantum wonders we've been offered, we feel a twinge of nostalgia on encountering dear old magnetic miracle cures. Oak-panelled Victorian seance chambers come to mind... but never fear, whoever is responsible for Magneurol, at www.magneurol.com , has found a 21st-century "scientific" twist. "Use This Discovery," they exhort us, "to …

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