Taming nature’s numbers
Features
This week's magazine
19 July 2003
Issue 2404
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
UK planned nuke landmines
If the British army's worst nightmare had come true, and Soviet troops started pouring into West Germany, it had a last-ditch scheme to keep the invaders at bay
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Experts can’t agree on internal radiation risk
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Atlantis wing breach ‘irrelevant’
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Test confirms foam downed Columbia
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Space map plots vanishing forests
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Frequent flyers needn’t worry about getting cancer from cosmic rays
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Neem extracts linked to genetic abnormalities
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Dispatches
News
Soundbites
News
South Aral ‘gone in 15 years’
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Humans
Mutiny over the bounty
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How not to give steel the creeps
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Can masturbating each day keep the doctor away?
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Is cadmium a gender bender?
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Ovulation revolution
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Soft-shelled crabs get all pumped up
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Will troops drink water from vehicle exhausts?
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We hear that鈥�
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Pollution test takes aim at stale ales
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Technology
Shark shocker
News
Technology
Inspiral dressing
News
Technology
Keep dabs on your mobile
News
Bright future for the low-power bulb
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Condemned to a life of depression?
News
Life
Safe gene test for mums to be
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Life
DIY approach to drug discovery
News
Dead in the water
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We’re off the hook over El Ni帽o
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Mouse that healed
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Enter Methuselah
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Old faithfuls
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Sushi vaccine
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Opinion
Features
Taming nature’s numbers
The erratic stop-start of the real world has long defeated mathematicians, but now they have a new trick up their sleeves. It's called time scale calculus, and everything from mosquitoes to market traders will bow before it. Vanessa Spedding reports
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Behind the mask
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Fruits of the forest
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I, computer
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Dying to go home
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