First Light
Features
This week's magazine
11 January 2003
Issue 2377
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Background radiation enough to trigger cancer
A study of thyroid cancer in children adds weight to the argument that even small amounts of radiation have the potential to cause damage
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Complete rice sequence goes public at last
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Don’t clone at home, say movie moguls
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The net is closing on coral reef bombers
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Soundbites
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Shipping ‘pile-up’ sparks safety fears
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Dispatches
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Humans
If not today, tomorrow
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‘Gadget printer’ foreshadows a new industrial revolution
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Giant creatures appeared millions of years early
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Earth
Bugs thrive under seabed
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Stem cells fix the damage
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How calf saliva could improve your toothpaste
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Technology
A load of balka?
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Technology
Bumper sticker radar
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Technology
TV ads get relevant
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Big hearts are first past the post
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Overeager adverts inflate drug claims
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Computer bird brain is a match for nature’s virtuoso singers
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Smugglers face neutron test
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Moon photo mystery
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Telescope technology banishes wobbly knees
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Toxic Titan
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Slowing down MS
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The buzz on heat
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Wondrous tail
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Twin towers dust risk smaller than feared
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Crab trigonometry
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Opinion
Features
First Light
We are about to get our clearest images yet of the birth of our Universe. NASA has been scrutinising the afterglow of the big bang for more than a year, and its results will be released later this month. In the first of two features on this project, Craig
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Rites of passage
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How fast is gravity?
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Heart-stopping
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