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12 July 2003

Issue 2403

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Was life on Earth born lucky?

Was life on Earth born lucky?

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Is there life beyond Earth?

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Is the search for alien life futile nonsense?

Is the search for alien life futile nonsense?

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

Climatologists hit back at greenhouse sceptics

THE 1990s were almost certainly the warmest decade for 2000 years. An analysis published this week contradicts recent claims that the Middle Ages were warmer than today. And it reinforces the view that the last quarter-century of global warming has been extremely unusual and therefore down to human activity. Temperature records taken using thermometers only …

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Europe prepares for strict labelling laws on genetically modified food

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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DNA profiles link dope to its source

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Forgot your password? Just laugh to log on…

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'Editing' fixes disease gene

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Technology

Which weapon did it?

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Satellites hunt for buried treasure

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Technology

The way of the gun

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Your every move will be analysed

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Frogs get energy boost to leap long and high

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It's not made of cheese

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Of mice and madness

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Urban jungle

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Fire down below

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Studies provoke shock and horror

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Health

Brave new treatments

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Pentaquark makes fleeting appearance

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Bright lights beckon for cut-price space telescope

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Alien solar system looks a lot like home

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Hot mist strips salt from the sea

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Technology

No more whining strimmers

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Technology

Is your car a chameleon?

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Technology

Touch screens are a write-off

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We hear that…

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Russian programmer defeats NASA in code war

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Opinion

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

Bad drives out the good

CRIES of horror and disgust greeted several of the experiments showcased at last week's international conference on reproductive science in Madrid (see "Brave new treatments") . And it has to be said that some of the science is hard to defend. Take the furore over attempts to create chimeric human embryos in the lab. The …

Opinion

Technology

Every move you make

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Promises, promises

Opinion

Features

Look who's talking

Look who's talking

LAURANCE DOYLE didn't set out to enlist animals in the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence, but that's how his research has turned out. Doyle works at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, where his main priority is the search for extrasolar planets. It's a task that has given him great expertise in detecting almost imperceptible …

Features

Was life on Earth born lucky?

Features

Look of life…

Features

Is there life beyond Earth?

Features

Is the search for alien life futile nonsense?

Features

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The Suffering Gene by Roy Burdon

In another part of the environmental forest, Roy Burdon's The Suffering Gene (Zed Books, £12.99/$19.95) is an unexpectedly satisfying review of the environmental threats to our genes. From gender-bending chemicals to genetic engineering, free radicals to mobile phones, this is as honest, clear and salutary a guide as you will find. More perspectives from the …

Books & Arts

Not seeing stars

Books & Arts

Environment

Keep it clean

Careers

The debunker

Books & Arts

Tree life and other dilemmas

Books & Arts

Ultimate Albert

Books & Arts

How does yours grow?

Books & Arts

Alien invasions

Books & Arts

The oldest story ever told

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ENTOMOLOGISTS working at London's Natural History Museum have been having a quiet giggle over a message sent by one of their colleagues to a company called Tradewind Equipment and later forwarded round the entomology department. With the subject line "Re: Bargain List of Heavy Equipment", the message reads: "Gentlemen, Thank you for your list of …

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