Health
Fascinating rhythm 鈥� If you thought a heart that beats like clockwork is a sign of rude
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This week's magazine
3 January 1998
Issue 2115
On the cover
Editor's picks
Can we tame wild medicine? – To save a rare species, Western conservationists may have to make their peace with traditional Chinese medicine. Rob Parry-Jones and Amanda Vincent report
Features
Thumbing a ride into space
Features
Sniff ‘n’ shake – How do we distinguish between the sweet smell of a rose and the reek of rotten eggs? One man thinks it comes down to picking up good vibrations, says Stephen Hill
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Table of contents
News
Is anything safe to eat? – More Britons were poisoned by their food in 1997 than ever before
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In cold blood – Are health officials doing enough to protect haemophiliacs?
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Junk science thrown out of court
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Newswire : No more cannibals
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Newswire : London’s nukes
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Newswire : Shark sanctuary
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Platypus sting spurs on painkiller hunt
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Vicious circles – Rings of DNA can throw a spanner in the workings of the cell and make you old before your time
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Patents : Voice over
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Patents : Floating fleet
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Patents : Feel the noise
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Fear not – Help is at hand for people paralysed by panic
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Say it like it is – A special palate makes speech problems melt away
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High anxiety
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Spot the fibre – Keeping track of an airborne killer
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Fallow ground – Farmers need better incentives to foster plants and wildlife
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Risky business
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Dowsing on the Moon – An American probe returns to the Moon in search of ice
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All too much – Do-it-yourself CDs will hit the music business where it hurts
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Add oxygen
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Sonic the sniffer – In a crisis you need to spot deadly chemicals fast
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Technofile : Fighting rotaviruses
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Technofile : Mirror, mirror
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Technofile : Dressing up
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Technofile : Small talk
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They think it’s not moving鈥�
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Focus : Out of the frying pan – Food irradiation should help to reduce food poisoning, and fears over its safety have proved unfounded. But could it also be used to cover up sloppy hygiene in the preparation of food?
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Netropolitan : Hot stuff
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Chateau hormone – The life-giving properties of red wine may lie in a chemical that works like oestrogen
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Newswire : …as Pegasus is grounded
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Newswire : Animal alert
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Newswire : Shuttle is shielded…
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The force is with them – Are the most energetic cosmic rays neutrinos in disguise?
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Late bloomers live long and prosper
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It’s a dog’s life – National parks do more for lions than endangered wild dogs
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In brief : Wasting away
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In brief : TB laid bare
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In brief : Ever outward
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In brief : Food in the womb
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In brief : Doctor sparrow
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In brief : Prey is in the eye of the beholder
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Features
Health
Fascinating rhythm 鈥� If you thought a heart that beats like clockwork is a sign of rude
Features
Can we tame wild medicine? – To save a rare species, Western conservationists may have to make their peace with traditional Chinese medicine. Rob Parry-Jones and Amanda Vincent report
Features
Thumbing a ride into space
Features
Sniff ‘n’ shake – How do we distinguish between the sweet smell of a rose and the reek of rotten eggs? One man thinks it comes down to picking up good vibrations, says Stephen Hill
Features
More
Review : Worlds on the edge
Books & Arts
Review : They made it
Books & Arts
Review : Striking back
Books & Arts
Review : Web trotters . . .
Books & Arts
Review : Glowing times
Books & Arts
Review : . . . and dataloggers
Books & Arts
Review : Flesh on the bones
Books & Arts
Review : Academic fiefdom
Books & Arts
Review : Mystic machinery
Books & Arts
Review : Money-spinner
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works – Barry Forshaw picks out the time travel plums
Books & Arts
Bestsellers : from San Francisco
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