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12 January 2002

Issue 2325

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The tough get glowing

Features

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Home from Home

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Going up

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

There she blows

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News

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Holey planet

William Carpenter of Vail, Colorado, is worried that the Earth's axis is shifting, and wants to do something about it (WO 01/79613). The shift, he says, is the result of mining fossil fuels over the past century: this has led to significant local mass losses, while the fuels' combustion products are spread uniformly throughout the …

News

Explosive sports

News

Cone power

News

A snip without snips

News

Darling, you look positively fluorescent today

News

Dyslexia gene

News

Not so dummy

News

Moon on hold

News

Barefootin' is best

News

Remote-controlled DNA

News

Braking with tradition

News

Managers should listen to their players' knees

News

Money talks

News

Martian hoversleigh

News

Pyramid of dreams

News

No pain, no gain

News

Catch the light

News

Navy accepts blame for whale deaths

News

It's never too late to build up fragile bones

News

Thanks for all the fish

News

Hitch-hikers' ride

News

Brain-dead burglary

News

Best catch 'em young…

News

Curbing an Afghan killer

News

Sick auto syndrome

News

Dolly the crone

News

Immune to pregnancy

News

Prisoners of the ice

News

Second home

News

Moral outrage

News

Hitting the high notes

News

This little piggy had none

News

Dressed to cure

News

BSE: it's not over yet

News

It's a shocker

News

Bush thinks again on funding for non-proliferation

News

Opinion

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Westminster diary

CAUSEWAYS and bridges are important links between island communities and the mainland. But while bridges supported on pillars tend to be friendly to marine life, causeways built of solid rock can be a problem. Seabed habitats depend on coastal currents providing nutrients and preventing the build-up of silt deposits. Solid rock causeways block off these …

Opinion

In memoriam

Opinion

The party's over

Opinion

Out in paperback

Opinion

Great stuff

Opinion

Hi, I'm Greg

Opinion

Forest folk

Opinion

Feat of clay

Opinion

Out with the old

Opinion

Lucky's last croak

Opinion

Dead reckoning

Opinion

Editorial : Waiting for a miracle - Time is running out for organ transplants from animals

Opinion

Features

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The tough get glowing

Cleveland, Ohio LAKE HARSHA in southern Ohio is not a place you would ever describe as achingly beautiful, but it's good enough to supply clean water to most of Clermont County. Just 8 kilometres away, though, is a large hazardous waste dump containing hundreds of kilograms of polychlorinated biphenyls—it was closed by the Environmental Protection …

Features

Home from Home

Features

Going up

Features

There she blows

Features

Regulars

Half asleep

Half asleep

Half asleep Question : Is it true that some animals sleep with only half their brain at a time? If so, which animals do this and why? Answer : Yes, it's true. So-called unihemispheric sleep happens in animals when one side of the brain shows waking activity while the other side is asleep (an electroencephalographic …

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