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31 March 2007

Issue 2597

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Hybrid images: Now you see themÂ…

Life

Hybrid images: Now you see themÂ…

Features
The love delusion

Life

The love delusion

Features
Liver disease: the silent epidemic

Health

Liver disease: the silent epidemic

Features
Outside of time: The quantum gravity computer

Space

Outside of time: The quantum gravity computer

Features

Table of contents

News

Arms are dead giveaway for risky drivers

Life

Arms are dead giveaway for risky drivers

MONITORING a driver's gaze – as some luxury cars are now designed to do – may not be the best way to ensure they are paying attention to the road ahead. A more effective way to spot distracted drivers may be to monitor their activity by tracking head, arm and hand movements. In the US, …

News

Technology

The end of the line for phone numbers?

News

Technology

Gizmo

News

Earth

It's lights out for classic household bulb

News

Technology

Electric shades switch off the sun

News

Technology

'Plastic plane' takes shape

News

Health

Enzyme spray has earache in its sights

News

Earth

No snowball Earth after all?

News

Health

Protein key to long-life platelets

News

Health

Disc transplant may reduce severe back pain

News

Life

How selfish DNA saved the fruit fly

News

Earth

No signs of lifeÂ… just an old tectonic plate

News

Earth

Serendipitous sensors pick up storm surge's secret

News

Life

See yourself as others see you online

News

Life

Mammals not such late developers, after all

News

Space

Equinox challenge to Newton's law

News

Soundbites

News

Earth

The climate changes on Capitol Hill

News

This week 50 years ago

News

Life

Why marmoset twins are closer than most

News

Life

Cancer therapy: When all else fails

News

Space

France releases UFO files

News

Scientists steal turns of phrase from other papers

News

Life

WHO hails circumcision as vital in HIV fight

News

Inquiry into prominent stem-cell research underway

News

60 Seconds

News

Earth

Now climates face extinction too

News

Health

Flu sample stand-off resolved, for now

News

Earth

Accident on research submarine kills two

News

Opinion

Interview: Darwin in the blood

Life

Interview: Darwin in the blood

Matthew Chapman (Photo: Chris Granger) As a child Matthew Chapman wasn't much interested in his great-great-grandfather, Charles Darwin. For him, Darwin was just a part of science, someone to take for granted, rather than a hero who theorised in areas where few dared to tread. But all that changed as Chapman sat with the journalists …

Opinion

Health

Making poor nations pay for drugs

Opinion

Health

Editorial: Gambling with your life

Opinion

Features

Hybrid images: Now you see themÂ…

Life

Hybrid images: Now you see themÂ…

Behind this great man is a beautiful woman Aligning the eyes and heads of the cheetah and tiger (far right) produces a better illusion The making of Marilyn Einstein Viewed from a distance, the shadow dominates the picture Click on the top right image and take a good look – what do you see? Close …

Features

Life

The love delusion

Features

Health

Liver disease: the silent epidemic

Features

Space

Outside of time: The quantum gravity computer

Features

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All the world in a single eye

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the London-based photographer known only as Rankin offers a spectacular view. His Eyescapes collection features close-ups of the irises of friends, relatives and clients. Each image is compelling, and reveals that what appears to be a uniform colour is really a kaleidoscope of hues, iridescent …

Books & Arts

Life

The word: Dark tourism

Regulars

The Motion Paradox, by Joseph Mazur

Books & Arts

Earth

The Emerald Planet, by David Beerling

Books & Arts

IT specialists have plenty of career choice

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

Quartz versus negative energy HERE is one way of mitigating the destructive effects of computer rage. The mailshot Richard Vandewetering received from Enhancing your Mind Body Spirit magazine featured cards giving information on such topics as palmistry and astrology, which, when collected, make up an "ultimate holistic resource". One of the cards was about quartz. …

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