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28 September 2002

Issue 2362

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Marriage of equals
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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.

Marriage of equals

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.

Red alert

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Stolen code

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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.

Let the river run

Features
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Ready, steady, evolve

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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.

Technology

Jammers beware

GPS signals can be jammed using a simple low-power transmitter, so the Pentagon and Britain's Ministry of Defence have developed a method of pinpointing the rogue broadcaster's location using spy satellites – wherever they may be at the time. Part of the system relies on existing triangulation techniques. Two US spy satellites detect the rogue …

News

Technology

You show me yours…

News

Technology

Milk cream skin infections

News

See-thru chip creates code that's far from transparent

News

Did living on Mars build up a microbe's resistance to radiation?

News

Supercrop thrives on saline soil

News

Bring on the T cells

News

Ancient eye resurrected

News

Not such close cousins after all

News

Dispatches

News

Navy pilots can set stray missiles back on course

News

Mars lander 'will beat snags'

News

Sign up to watch the night sky

News

African states betray World summit pledges by launching mega-projects

News

'Bad blood' kills hundreds

News

Venus may surprise us and emerge as a haven for life

News

Drugs to stop drink from harming baby

News

Body gets a healing boost from its inner electric fields

News

Story of early Universe unfolds

News

We hear that …

News

Race is on to stop human cloning

News

The fatal attraction that sends men to an early death

News

Technology

News

Soundbites

News

Genetically engineered fungus bites back at the crops it's meant to save

News

'Act now' plea on bioterror threat

News

Cleaner, greener rice

News

Slowly but surely

News

No succour in liquor

News

How many will get vCJD?

News

Cheaper charges

News

Sinister parallels

News

Laser treatment strips away the grimy ravages of time

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.

The hand of God

A LOT of people are naive about creationists. They regard them as small-town Bible literalists who believe the Earth is just a few thousand years old and that dinosaur bones in museums were deposited during Noah's flood. Old-style creationists of this sort certainly exist, but in recent years their influence has been eclipsed by a …

Opinion

The word cosmogonist

Opinion

Humans

Washington diary

Opinion

Secrets from the grave

Opinion

How not to save the world

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.

Marriage of equals

Summer was once the time to quaff ginger beer, served up in brown stone bottles. All over the British Isles people relished its frothy, fizzy gingery tang, enhanced by an alcohol content that temperance campaigners warned could rival that of strong London stout. Best of all it was virtually free: you could make it at …

Features

Red alert

Features

Stolen code

Features

Let the river run

Features

Ready, steady, evolve

Features

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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.

Blowing hot and cold

A Matter of Degrees: What temperature reveals about the past and future of our species, planet, and Universe by Gino Segr`, Viking, $24.95, ISBN 0670031011 OUR relationship with heat and cold is elemental. Life itself couldn't have happened without a relatively warm planet. And fast-forwarding a few billion years, our ancestors finally began to master …

Books & Arts

Joseph LeDoux

Books & Arts

Robert Sapolsky

Books & Arts

Whims on wheels

Books & Arts

Spot a finch

Books & Arts

Count on it

Books & Arts

Machine Nature by Moshe Sipper

Books & Arts

Genius at large

Books & Arts

Regulars

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

Feedback

MANY of the emails that stream by the thousands into our mailbox have a quote or aphorism at the bottom, or, sometimes, an item of information that the sender wants to spread around. Here's one we found the other day: "The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is planning a $590,000 initiative …

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