Technology Has Netflix given away the answers in its software competition? THERE's $1 million at stake in a competition being run by an online DVD rental firm. If you are thinking of entering, you might want to take note of an analysis by two computer scientists which has revealed a loophole that could be used as a cheat's charter. Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, is … 51¶¯Âþ
Health Europe's scientists must make themselves heard on animal experimentation INSULIN is estimated to have saved the lives of over 5 million diabetics. It was discovered by Frederick Banting and his colleagues in Toronto in 1922, through experiments on dogs and rabbits. Cardiac surgery is only possible because of the heart-lung machine, which bypasses the blood circulation to the heart and allows it to be … Opinion
Health Death of the autopsy A 49-year-old man is admitted to hospital in Japan with chest pains and a partially paralysed arm. Doctors diagnose a simultaneous heart attack and stroke and the patient seems to respond well to treatment. The next day, however, he has a cardiac arrest, and later dies. The autopsy reveals that all along he'd had an … Features
Physics Oppenheimer: The tragic intellect, by Charles Thorpe HE IS known as the father of the atomic bomb, but J. Robert Oppenheimer was much more than that. As scientific director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory during the second world war, Oppenheimer was a social symbol, a "nodal point" where scientific, political and military interests clashed. It is this sociological aspect of … Books & Arts
Feedback No sex, we're NASA NASA views human space flight as an entirely chaste activity and doesn't want to know about any of the rumours that someone has "done it" in orbit. Press officers at the agency couldn't find any officials willing to talk about the subject when Laura Woodmansee told them she was researching a … Regulars