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28 February 2004

Issue 2436

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Health

Down with the flu?

Features
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Dark secret of the lake

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Chaotic heavens

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Salmon crisis in Norway

SALMON stocks in Norway are under threat from a deadly parasite being spread by record numbers of a trout-salmon hybrid. The fear is that the hybrid fish, which carry the parasite but remain healthy, could spread the worm to hundreds of unaffected rivers or streams. The discovery has prompted Janne Sollie, the director of the …

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Batteryless implant takes the pressure off heart monitoring

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Superflu is being brewed in the lab

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Dirty dozen ban

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60 Seconds

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Welfare worry

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Genocide trail

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'51¶¯Âþs not to blame' for Arsenic error

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David and Goliath

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Pig feed blunder

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Online egg service belies IVF complexities

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Technology

We can rebuild them…

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Technology

Phones face power failure

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Technology

Magic cube conjures stories from thin air

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Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

First robot moved by muscle power

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Technology

Strobe watcher

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Technology

Natural-born graffiti killer

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Technology

Eye for an imax

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Technology

Smart surfaces show their colours

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Could a deadly virus escape the lab?

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Gene pollution is 'pervasive'

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Soundbites

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Seeds of doubt for theory of inflation

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Oral sex linked to mouth cancer

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Safety concerns over injectable quantum dots

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The universe took a billion years to light up

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Big Brother keeps eye on lab animals

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Rare marine reptile shatters dive record

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Brain study challenges multiple sclerosis theory

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Cancer vaccines boost survival

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Deciphering the language of music

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Split-second for electron 'movie'

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Ultimate test

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Pluto's neighbour breaks record

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Native medicines – who should profit?

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Lion hunting made sustainable by the spots on its nose

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Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

ONE way to win friends and influence people in the White House, if you're a Middle Eastern dictator anyway, is to deliver some good old weapons of mass destruction. As everyone knows, they're damned hard to find these days. So Muammar Gaddafi, once numbered among the princes of the axis of evil, is now in …

Opinion

Art, but not as we know it

Opinion

The art that is Hubble

Opinion

When science is just another good cause

Opinion

Editorial: Scare tactics

Opinion

Features

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Health

Down with the flu?

In 1918, a woman boarded a subway train in New York to make a 45-minute trip. She must have felt healthy enough to travel, if perhaps a little achy and shivery. Yet a few minutes into the journey, she started having trouble breathing. Her condition rapidly deteriorated as her lungs filled with fluid. By the …

Features

Dark secret of the lake

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Chaotic heavens

Features

More

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Death sells

Inside the Mind of a Killer by Jean-François Abgrall, Profile Books, £8.99, ISBN 1861976569 Reviewed by Laura Spinney OTHERS have described this book flatteringly as echoing Dostoevsky, but to me Inside the Mind of a Killer has more in common with Albert Camus's The Outsider, with its murder on a beach, pared-down dialogue, and eyewitnesses …

Books & Arts

She shall have music

Books & Arts

The word space music

Books & Arts

The Transits of Venus by William Sheehan and John Westfall

Books & Arts

Growing Up With Lucy by Steve Grand

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE HAVE been itching to find out how JVC's engineers in Japan hit on the idea of soaking birch wood in sake to make it pliant enough to use as a loudspeaker cone (51¶¯Âþ, 24 January, p 20) . So we were delighted when a colleague had the chance of meeting the inventor, Satoshi …

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