Technology Novel warhead may bust the deepest bunkers DESPITE the intelligence failure that led the Bush administration to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with the development of technologies designed to destroy WMDs. Its latest idea is a bomb that can destroy deeply buried WMD storage bunkers by cutting through earth and concrete inside a bubble of … 51¶¯Âþ
Life Perspectives: Moved by the music I AM not musical. At least, that is what I was told by my schoolteachers and have believed for most of my life. But since I started thinking about what music is for and how our capacity for music evolved, I am not so sure. True, I struggle to clap in rhythm, and I certainly … Opinion
Earth Histories: Now you see it, now you don't In the autumn of 1879, a canoe crept into a remote Alaskan bay. After days of rain, the weather had relented, revealing spectacle after spectacle: towering mountains, green waters and icebergs sparkling like "the jewel-paved streets of the New Jerusalem". Most impressive of all were the glaciers, fed by distant heights and flowing far into … Features
Time to go it alone? WHEN Crispin Gardiner attends international meetings he relishes being asked where he works: "They are amazed when I tell them what I do, and wish they could do the same." Gardiner, a theoretical physicist who studies the intriguing state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, doesn't work for a university, a prestigious institute or … Careers
Feedback Etheric DNA FOR reasons best known to herself, Laura Emery was browsing for DNA on eBay. To her alarm, she came across the Lifetech DNA Activator CD. One lucky bidder obtained, for $14.95, the power to "activate 100 per cent of your 2-strand DNA, plus 10 additional strands!" Boring old conventional medicine would regard even … Regulars