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26 April 2008

Issue 2653

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Illegal drug labs leave toxic legacy

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Illegal drug labs leave toxic legacy

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Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat

Life

Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat

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Shape-shifting robots take form

Technology

Shape-shifting robots take form

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The secret language of cuttlefish

Life

The secret language of cuttlefish

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Mongoose-robot duo sniffs out landmines

Technology

Mongoose-robot duo sniffs out landmines

Video: Combining a mongoose and robot could be a cheap and effective way of finding landmines See a video of the mongoose and robot pair sniffing our landmines CAN a partnership between a cheap robot and a carnivore with an exquisite sense of smell aid the hunt for buried landmines? Robots capable of detecting landmines …

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Smart gel sifts out the smallest signs of cancer

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Gizmo

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Ad men are homing in on your clicks

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Space

Space war would leave destructive legacy

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Life

How an email address can reveal your character

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New tools make rogue genes easier to map

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Space

Mirrors on the Moon could catch alien eyes

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Magnetic killer cells zero in on cancers

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Space

Black hole plasma jet reveals twisted magnetic fields

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Earth

Captive tigers roar ahead in stud potential

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Food dyes may protect against cancer

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Life

Testosterone turns birds into bad parents

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Space

Where did all the mini-galaxies go?

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Life

Colourful warnings cause confusion for mates

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Earth

Rising nations face 'back door' emissions limits

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Life

Fruit flies trade lifespan for brain power

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Space

Physicists respond to dark matter 'discovery'

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Life

Early life could have relied on 'arsenic DNA'

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Life

Were Mesopotamians the first brand addicts?

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Soundbites

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Earth

Arctic currents may be warming the world

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Life

Memories of your last meal can help you stay thin

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Earth

Megaquake set to strike within a decade

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60 Seconds

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Blood transfusions found to harm some patients

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Life

Personal genome tests under fire in New York

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Earth

Biodiversity linked to human health

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Life expectancy dropping in some parts of US

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Study reveals the health secrets in your pee

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Space

'Ballistic re-entry' raises questions over Soyuz safety

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Life

Big breakfasts make boy births more likely

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Protein test predicts invasive breast cancer

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Opinion

Comment: Let's take cancer clusters seriously this time

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Comment: Let's take cancer clusters seriously this time

AMONG the many environmental concerns surrounding nuclear power plants, there is one that provokes public anxiety like no other: the fear that children living near nuclear facilities face an increased risk of cancer. Though a link has long been suspected, it has never been proven. Now that seems likely to change. Studies in the 1980s …

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Editorial: Somebody's watching your clicks

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Editorial: Surgeons should face up to the evidence

Opinion

Commentary: Meet the real April fools

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Interview: The complementary medicine detective

Opinion

Features

Illegal drug labs leave toxic legacy

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Illegal drug labs leave toxic legacy

KATRINA EVANS and her family bought their dream home in Fort Collins, Colorado, on 28 March 2003. It had bedrooms for each of the three daughters, land for a second garage in which Katrina's husband Brian could indulge his passion for classic cars, and a basement in which she would run her business of providing …

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Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat

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Shape-shifting robots take form

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Life

The secret language of cuttlefish

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BOYLE, Biot, Beer and Bernoulli: these are just four of the scientists associated with eponymous laws whom Pickover has chosen to cover in this book. For each law, he breaks down the underlying scientific principles and explores the personality behind it, along with the social environments that spawned the likes of Hooke, Heisenberg and Ohm. …

Books & Arts

Review: Beautiful Minds by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig Stanford

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