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This week's magazine
24 December 2005
Issue 2531
Editor's picks
Life
Discovering the nature of party people
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Life
Looking for a creator’s signature in space
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Life
Boring-ology: A happy tedium
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Physics
Revealing the secret of ‘hot ice’
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Life
Is advertising flogging a dead horse?
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Life
How clean is your desk?
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Life
Addictive, seductive, sudoku
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Technology
E-gift vouchers: Whose money is it anyway?
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Life
Do the brainwave boogie-woogie
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Health
Put a wild wobble in your walk
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Life
Savour the festive flavour
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Health
Animals and their amazing superpowers
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Life
When a deathtrap becomes a free lunch
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Physics
Highway heaven or highway hell?
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Physics
A crackling Christmas mystery
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Technology
Histories: Military secrets and hidden patents
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End of year quiz
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Table of contents
News
Life
Cloning crisis goes from bad to worse
Amid claim and counter-claim, the apparent triumphs of Korea's stem-cell stars are rapidly unravelling
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Earth
Fear still haunts Tsunami survivors
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Earth
Drought plus snails equals disaster
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Life
What’s the point of the narwhal’s tusk?
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Soundbites
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Earth
Spotting the world’s polluters from space
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Life
Civilisation left its mark on our genes
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Technology
Smoke detector ignores burning cigarettes
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Technology
Gaping holes in internet security
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Technology
Camera phone helps label snaps
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Technology
Gizmo
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Technology
Dazzle gun will protect US helicopters
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Health
Gyroscope sets course to fight cancer
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Earth
The biggest stories of 2005
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Space
Review 2005: Touchdown on Titan
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Space
Review 2005: Mars rovers roll on
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Life
Review 2005: Rise and fall of the stem cell king
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Earth
Review 2005: Climate going crazy
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Physics
Review 2005: Einstein remembered
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Humans
Review 2005: Here’s looking at you, chimp
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Health
Review 2005: Bird flu flies the coop
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Review 2005: God on trial
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Life
Review 2005: Revenge of the mammals
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Space
Review 2005: Return of the shuttle
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Earth
Review 2005: The year of the hurricane
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Opinion
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No, we haven't been at the New 杏吧原创 drinks cabinet. Not yet, anyway. We've been too busy putting together the latest collection of stories from the quirkier side of science. This year we bring you the researcher who studies candy wrappers, the
Features
Life
Discovering the nature of party people
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Life
Looking for a creator’s signature in space
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Life
Boring-ology: A happy tedium
Features
Physics
Revealing the secret of ‘hot ice’
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Life
Is advertising flogging a dead horse?
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Life
How clean is your desk?
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Life
Addictive, seductive, sudoku
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Technology
E-gift vouchers: Whose money is it anyway?
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Life
Do the brainwave boogie-woogie
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Health
Put a wild wobble in your walk
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Life
Savour the festive flavour
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Health
Animals and their amazing superpowers
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Life
When a deathtrap becomes a free lunch
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Physics
Highway heaven or highway hell?
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Physics
A crackling Christmas mystery
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Technology
Histories: Military secrets and hidden patents
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End of year quiz
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Life
The word: Sprawl
It may sound like a dirty word, a place where other people live, but it turns out that living in sprawl is a sign of economic affluence
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Space
The New Atlas of Planet Management edited by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent
Books & Arts
Space
The Space Tourist’s Handbook by Eric Anderson and Joshua Piven
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