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27 September 2003

Issue 2414

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The head from Worsley Moss

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The regeneration game

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Infinity upstaged

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How does the brain "think big"?

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Never ending story

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News

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Wise old big-heads

HAVING a bighead may protect you against cognitive decline in old age. Christopher Martyn and his team at the University of Southampton, UK, measured the head circumference of 215 people aged 66 to 75, and also tested their memory and IQ over 3 years. People with smaller heads were up to five times as likely …

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Mend a broken heart

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Escape route

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Same genes behind different disorders

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Underwater wings could give tidal power a flying start

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Where are all the giants?

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Dispute over test for toxic shock syndrome

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Life

Relic hints at primal force

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Life

Instant evolution

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Life

Life in a ball of fat

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Life

Vital clues from Europa

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Hungry killer whales snack on smaller prey

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Farming came naturally

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Bend it like Einstein

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Traffic plan for Venice rules the waves

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Technology

Random data reveals viruses

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Technology

Smart theft protection

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Technology

Web divorce cuts out lawyers

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Indian firm creates hybrids with a twist

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Misplaced optimism has delayed recovery of cod

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Patients' lawsuit is a 'threat to science publishing'

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Spin trick sets new record

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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Historic storms live again

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Paper comes alive

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Did a gamma-ray burst devastate life on Earth?

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Stunting growth harms fertility

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Alarm over acidifying oceans

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Curvy shape is key to silencing sonic booms

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Opinion

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The numbers game

Ragni Piene 's introduction to mathematics included writing equations in the snow while skiing with her father – who was himself a mathematician. So for her, mathematics was the default option for getting into university. Now she is a professor at the University of Oslo. She is also involved in setting up the Abel prize, …

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Humans

Washington diary

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Just following orders?

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A nation of sceptics

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What cost a few extra centimetres?

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Features

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The head from Worsley Moss

For almost 2000 years, the man lay buried in a bog in the north of England preserved by the peaty liquor. Then in 1958, to the surprise of a gang of peat-cutters and the consternation of the local constabulary, her – or rather his head – emerged from its cold, soggy tomb into the warmth …

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The regeneration game

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Infinity upstaged

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How does the brain "think big"?

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Never ending story

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Opportunity knocks

IN JULY this year, Josef Zwanziger, a tenured professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, moved with his family across the border to Canada. The American was lured northwards by an offer from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be its new Canada Research Chair in NMR studies of materials, complete with guaranteed funding to …

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Space rocks

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The way we were

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Down below

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Feedback

WHILE most of us prefer to avoid radioactivity as much as we possibly can, one Greek tourist promoter is happily singing the praises of the radioactive hot springs on Ikaria island. "Ikaria's abundant therapeutic radioenergised spring sources have been identified as amongst the best in the world in terms of healing qualities, radioenergy and water …

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