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14 January 2006

Issue 2534

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Mrs Carlill lays down the law

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Turning back the years

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Saturn special: Touchdown on Titan

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Saturn special: Mixed up moons

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Saturn special: Ringing the changes

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This week 26 years ago

Dinosaur destroyer About 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, a wayward Apollo-type asteroid ploughed into our planet and was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs. This hypothesis is proposed by Luis W. Alvarez and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley. Neutron activation analysis of the elements in a thin …

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Gizmo

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Clean-burn engine dodges ever tighter regulations

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Technology

DNA profiling moves to the scene of the crime

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Heart implants that won't give nasty shocks

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Anti-wobble boat keeps low profile

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The future of transparent digital displays

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Take your TV programmes on holiday

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Earth

Fishing ban comes to aid of coral reef

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Einstein's 'spooky action' on a chip

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Life

Pick on someone duller than you

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Earth

How a supervolcano covers a continent

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Earth

The lungs of the planet are belching methane

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Found: a dimmer switch for depression

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Space

Messenger probe sets record for laser communication

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Space

Magnetic fields brewed in a cup of cosmic soup

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Rotavirus vaccines set to slash infant deaths

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Life

Teachers don't need big brains

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Loud noise may contribute to ear tumours

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Earth

Global warming puts frogs at risk of deadly fungal epidemic

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Brain's blood re-routes round clots

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Life

Iron-age torture victims unearthed

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Life

Cloner faked all research on human stem cells

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Soundbites

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Space

Moon-based telescope may peer at the Earth

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Bush beaten back over scientific advisers

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Space

Hubble pictures realm of the infant suns

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60 Seconds

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Time to stamp out bird flu at source

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Earth

Doomsday vault to avert world famine

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Space

NASA gambles all for another shot at the Moon

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Life

Two-headed snake goes on sale

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Earth

Hurricane Katrina leaves lasting trauma in her wake

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Opinion

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Publish on the web and be damned

HOWARD HALLIS is a comic book artist who made a big mistake. He used his website to publish parodies of Chick Tracts – Christian comic books chronicling the adventures of mixed-up teenagers who are rescued from lives of sex, drugs and Dungeons and Dragons when they find Jesus. Hallis drew a "Cthulhu Chick Tract" in …

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Editorial: Cull or be killed

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Earth

Editorial: Methane emissions cause red faces all around

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Technology

Interview: And they call it robot love

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Features

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Mrs Carlill lays down the law

On 14 January 1892, Queen Victoria's grandson Prince Albert Victor, second in line to the British throne, died from flu. He had succumbed to the third and most lethal wave of the Russian flu pandemic sweeping the world. The nation was shocked. The people mourned. Albert was relegated to a footnote in history. Three days …

Features

Technology

Turning back the years

Features

Space

Saturn special: Touchdown on Titan

Features

Space

Saturn special: Mixed up moons

Features

Space

Saturn special: In the loop

Features

Space

Saturn special: Ringing the changes

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Life

The word: Spartina

Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass) is the Jekyll and Hyde of North American aquatic plants. On its native east coast, it is just another helpful plant. It prevents salt marshes from being eroded, snow geese love to nibble at its roots, crabs and fish feast on the detritus it produces, and in Virginia and several other …

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Chasing Spring by Bruce Stutz

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Weighing the World by Edwin Danson

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Feedback

Free energy from the quantum vacuum KNOWING how much Feedback appreciates pellucid examples of totally rational scientific exposition, Colin Osborne directs us to the website www.cheniere.org , where we can read in copious detail about Tom Bearden's Motionless Electromagnetic Generator. This wonderful device, a package 10 centimetres long that promises to deliver 2.5 kilowatts of …

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