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9 October 2004

Issue 2468

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From Lambda to infinity

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Cosmic confusions 2 – Big bang snapshot

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Splatbuster

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Life

Do you believe in miracles?

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Welcome to the new age of enlightenment

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When time began

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Cosmic trigger

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Universe in the balance

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Cosmic confusions 1 – When big was small

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Grappling with gravity

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Cosmic confusions 3 – Delusions of grandeur

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Decoding the after glow

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Curiouser and curiouser

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Dark energy in the lab

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Shrinking horizons

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The right stuff?

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Runaway universe

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Never say die

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The beast with no name

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Technology

Protecting your plastic

Inventors are working out ever more ingenious ways to protect consumers from credit card fraud, a trawl of the US Patent Office reveals. By the time unusual purchase patterns alert a bank to the fact that your card has been cloned, it is too late. Connecticut chip maker ATMI's answer, in US patent application 2004/0174749, …

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Vein camera keeps injections on target

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Pain in the neck

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Artificial throat speeds taste tests

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The battle over stem cells

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Closed for business

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A healthy strategy for whom exactly?

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Who should steer the modern ark?

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No way to run a world

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Cool cash will help slow global warming

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In just 50 years, we could cure our addiction to oil

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Kyoto in short

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Black holes haunt ghost particle theory

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Gene deal boosts indigenous rights

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Organic salvation down on the farm

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Warmer world means fiercer hurricanes will blow our way

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Salty hideaway for Martian water

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Trail of feathers

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Hopes dashed

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Should governments play politics with science?

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Bomb builders or peacemakers

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Superbugs escape hospitals

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Smell Nobel

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Now for the real prize

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Code crackers

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60 Seconds

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Kyoto won't stop climate change

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

NANOPARTICLES of various substances are finding their way into more and more products, ranging from sunscreens to computer chips, CDs and DVDs. In some circumstances, loose nanoparticles can be harmful if they get into the lungs or onto the skin (¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ, 7 August, p 5) . So do we need special laws to protect …

Opinion

We are what we eat

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Drowning in debt

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A question of leadership

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Unorthodox, but still worth a try

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From Lambda to infinity

Clearly something is missing from existing theories, and the main candidate is a bizarre quantum theoretical force that pervades the whole of space. Theorists call it the cosmological constant, or simply "Lambda". Created by the fleeting presence of virtual particles that constantly appear and disappear, Lambda has just the right properties to provide the "oomph" …

Features

Cosmic confusions 3 – Delusions of grandeur

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Never say die

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Runaway universe

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The right stuff?

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Shrinking horizons

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Dark energy in the lab

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Curiouser and curiouser

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Decoding the after glow

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Grappling with gravity

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Cosmic confusions 2 – Big bang snapshot

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Cosmic confusions 1 – When big was small

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Universe in the balance

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Cosmic trigger

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When time began

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Welcome to the new age of enlightenment

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Life

Do you believe in miracles?

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Splatbuster

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The beast with no name

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Bestsellers - Oxford

The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, Jonathan Cape/Random House The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Tomorrow's People by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane/Penguin Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence, Penguin The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Allen Lane/Penguin The Third Man of the Double Helix by Maurice Wilkins, Oxford …

Books & Arts

Dangerous biology

Books & Arts

Sensational!

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Gelid realm

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First contact

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Earthly powers

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Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out last week in a ceremony at Harvard University to celebrate achievements that make people laugh, then think. Coca-Cola earned the Ig Nobel prize in chemistry for a purification and taste-enhancement process that managed to ruin the water delivered to London's taps. The firm filtered the tap …

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