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13 September 2003

Issue 2412

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Play it live

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Two men and a wheelbarrow

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Shocked into life

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Fractured minds

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Let's get personal

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News

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First Americans

GENETIC data has backed up archaeological evidence for a relatively recent date for the arrival of humans in the Americas. Experts disagree over when humans reached the continent. Some evidence based on mitochondrial DNA suggests an early migration 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. But physical evidence for human occupation is shaky before about 13,000 years …

News

Smoking hazard

News

Damp blanket

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Biblical tunnel verified

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Slimming jab

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The hug that could save your life

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From father to son

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Why asteroids stay in the same old spin

News

Droplets may reveal life's oceanic beginnings

News

Worm longevity gene also helps people live longer

News

Can microbes munch waste and power batteries?

News

Blood test tells how much it hurts

News

Technology

Star test foils forgers

News

Technology

Sticky end for food bugs

News

Key chemical equations face turbulent times

News

'Living condoms' to protect against HIV

News

Water-soaked brushes may lubricate your body

News

Technology

Flat battery fix

News

Digital fix sorts your video tape clutter

News

Smart software makes sense of rough sketches

News

Technology

Will we ever know?

News

Dead stars come out to fill in the gaps

News

Giant female birds towered over their puny partners

News

Map sends out warning of oil-spill black spots

News

Flawed code leaves phones wide open to eavesdroppers

News

Dispatches

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Bluetooth enters the wacky races

News

Drivers hit the skids in a downpour after drought

News

Global warming: the new battle

News

Case reopens on Black Death cause

News

Soundbites

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

PIRATE fishing ships are devastating populations of fish and seabirds in Antarctic waters. Fish destined for the table, like the boatload of Patagonian toothfish intercepted last month, are only part of the problem. Illegal catches of krill are also putting a wide range of sea life in peril (New Scientist, 26 July, p 10) . …

Opinion

It's good to talk

Opinion

A magician exposed

Opinion

Tuning in to T-waves

Opinion

The agony of ecstasy

Opinion

Features

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Play it live

ARE you the kind of person who can't bear fingerprints on your DVDs? Do you flinch when someone picks up a CD as if it were a frisbee? Then don't lend your collection to Cameron Jones. Jones, a mathematician based at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, smears yogurt on CDs. He lets …

Features

Two men and a wheelbarrow

Features

Shocked into life

Features

Fractured minds

Features

Let's get personal

Features

More

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US biotech bounces back

OVER the past three years, US biotech companies have absorbed hard knocks like a punch-drunk boxer, sending stock prices into a dizzying descent. But the market has rallied during 2003, proving you can never count biotech out. Corporate scandals, clinical trial failures, fewer drug approvals, deflated expectations of genome-inspired breakthroughs and a turbulent world economic …

Careers

Birds, brains and beer

Books & Arts

Sexed up stodge

Books & Arts

Science essay competition 2003

Books & Arts

Spend, spend, spend

Careers

Greengrocer's geometry

Books & Arts

Partial reflection

Books & Arts

Outer limits of the lab

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE old adage that children should be seen and not heard has taken on a whole new meaning. Tiny tots of seven are now demanding mobile phones, and British parents are concerned because the government report on cellphone radiation risks by William Stewart advised a "precautionary approach", especially for children. Colin Blakemore, newly appointed chief …

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