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3 May 2003

Issue 2393

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England's El Dorado

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Atomic buffet

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Secret paths

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The final countdown

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Not-so total recall

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News

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Physics

Big cat uses infrasound to keep rivals at bay

TIGERS appear to rely on booming low-frequency sounds – much of it inaudible to humans – to drive rivals away from their territory and to attract mates. The discovery may explain how the animals maintain large hunting territories, and may also help conservationists to protect the endangered animals. Tigers produce a wide variety of sounds, …

News

Physics

Conference Round-up

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Young turkeys gobble up powdered grubs

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Flying fossils

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Seen in a good light

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Secrets of a superbug

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Record nanotubes

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Exploding meteorites

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Does a hook hurt a fish? The evidence is reeling in

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Did Einstein and Newton have autism?

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Mangrove plantations pose threat to coral reefs

News

Physics

Watch out for bad vibes

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Poor diet leads to premature birth

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Going, going, gone…for the max

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In a desert far, far away

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Ban on growth promoters has not increased bacteria

News

Rock and ice vie for credit for complex life

News

Technology

No smart card, no drugs

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Technology

Terrorist tankers turned away

News

Oldest known Chinese script discovered

News

Technology

Moths get mothballed

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The fast route to a longer, healthier life

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A bitter-sweet row

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U-turn over radiation safety

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East Africa eyes up hot rocks for fuel of the future

News

Dispatches

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Environment

Race against time to rescue undersea cables

News

Soundbites

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Iraq clean-up team being kept out

News

A warning that must not be ignored

News

Test blunders risk needless abortions

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

AIDS is an appalling problem for sub-Saharan Africa and any glimmer of hope that something can be done is extremely welcome. Alan Stone, an eminent consultant to the British charity International Family 91É«ÇéƬ, provided such a glimmer recently (New Scientist, 8 February, p 42) . Microbicides, he says, can be used to create vaginal medications …

Opinion

Life after Man

Opinion

The word logotechnics

Opinion

Sweet and sour

Opinion

Beware the grey goo

Opinion

Gene testing is easy, it's the next bit that's hard

Opinion

Features

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England's El Dorado

Dartford is a dull little town on the Thames estuary. But if you head across the railway tracks towards the plant-hire yard down by the creek, you will find a long, crumbling wall. And there, sometimes, on those rare days when the sun is shining, you can see in the stone blocks a gleam of …

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Atomic buffet

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Secret paths

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The final countdown

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Not-so total recall

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Sex Wars: Genes, bacteria and biased sex ratios by Michael Majerus

Sex Wars: Genes, bacteria and biased sex ratios by Michael Majerus, Princeton University Press, £29.95, ISBN 0691009813 WANTING a male child to carry on the family name (and inherit all the property) is a common enough ambition in many male-dominated human societies. Yet few people have taken as bizarre a step to achieve that goal …

Books & Arts

Time travel

Books & Arts

World health

Books & Arts

Brute absence

Books & Arts

Back to your routes

Books & Arts

Let there be might

Books & Arts

Burning issues

Books & Arts

Park life

Books & Arts

A path through the coral maze

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FORGET oil and weapons of mass destruction – at least as we know them. The war in Iraq was fought over technology salvaged from a crashed alien spaceship. That's the whisper doing the rounds in UFO-watching circles, as reported by New Zealand website Stuff ( www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2346716a4560,00.html ). According to this theory, a UFO crashed in …

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