Sensing satellites – who calls the tune?: Satellites can provide essential data about global climate change, but only if governments give climatologists a say in their design
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Confusion in the joints: If the immune system becomes confused, it can turn against the body’s own tissues, causing destructive diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Are bacteria to blame?
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Earth
Where eastern eagles dare
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Making Water Work: A dammed fine mess – Large reservoirs meet much of the world’s demand for water and power. But they are clogging up with silt and, within two decades, could be useless
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The World of Liquid Crystals
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Sensing satellites – who calls the tune?: What to do with the deluge of data
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Table of contents
News
A steel corset for the leaning tower
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Hubble’s headaches multiply
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ERS-1 grounded
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Health research
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Tricked and nicked
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Milk thieves caught spreading disease
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Help for Alzheimer’s
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Fact and fusion
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Keeping up standards
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Special buttercup
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Back in the fold
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Volcano prediction was bang on
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Europe battles over biotechnology
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Bangladesh rejected cyclone assistance
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Science: Embryonic star is the youngest yet discovered
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Government advisers back four-year degrees
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Common strategy for action sur l’environment
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Universities feel the heat from Stanford’s cooked books . . .
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. . . and a Nobel laureate has his fingers burnt
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UN watchdog to verify fate of Iraq’s nuclear fuel
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Europe’s piglets die in mystery plague
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Health
Latin America struggles as cholera spreads
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Madrid meeting bans Antarctic mining for 50 years
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German playgrounds blighted by dioxin
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Researchers rally behind animal experiments
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Technology
Technology: Flouting flitzer
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Technology
Technology: A drop of glue keeps trams on track
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Technology
Technology: Ring-bound computer will take down a note
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Technology
Technology: Tethered bacteria wash Sydney’s waste in a flash
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Science: WIMPs could make the Sun’s core go rigid
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Science: Hormone may predict ectopic pregnancies
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Science: Picked flowers lose their fragrance
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Science: Spider venom could help stroke victims
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Science: Where does all the atmosphere’s carbon go?
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Technology
Technology: It may be green but is it clean?
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Technology
Technology: Electronic playing card maps the way
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Science: The fractal structure of music
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Features
Sensing satellites – who calls the tune?: Satellites can provide essential data about global climate change, but only if governments give climatologists a say in their design
Features
Confusion in the joints: If the immune system becomes confused, it can turn against the body’s own tissues, causing destructive diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Are bacteria to blame?
Features
Earth
Where eastern eagles dare
Features
Making Water Work: A dammed fine mess – Large reservoirs meet much of the world’s demand for water and power. But they are clogging up with silt and, within two decades, could be useless
Features
The World of Liquid Crystals
Features
Sensing satellites – who calls the tune?: What to do with the deluge of data
Features
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Talking Point: Arms controls and the art of the possible
Forum: Begging the question – David Cohen asks why psychology has ignored the begging bowl
Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: Everyone needs standards
Forum: Would you pass the Pnin test? – Norman Kane has a suggestion for ageing academics
Forum: Through a glass brightly – Nicholas Arnold tries some sociology out in the field of view
Forum: The advantages of dual nationality – If you want your papers to be cited, write them with a foreign partner, says Grant Lewison
Review: Prize writing for children
Books & Arts
Review: Look back on gynophobia
Books & Arts
Review: German Science on display
Books & Arts
Review: Why do they change their minds?
Books & Arts
Review: The Science Book Prize contenders
Books & Arts
