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This Week Organs from sheep-human chimeras p.4 | Internet summit lacks bite p.6 | European reindeer threatened p.7 | Banned drug staves off Alzheimer's p.8 | Wheat prices ruled by sunspots p.8 | Genes that make us human p.9 | | ||||||
NEWS REVIEW 2003 Where do we go from here? p.11 | Truth and technology at war p.12 | Biology on the front line p.13 | Shuttle crash repeats past errors p.14 | SARS may rise again p.15 | Universe gives up its dark secrets p.16 | Hydrogen evangelists spread the word p.17 | How far should treating infertility go? p.17 | Not so many fish in the sea p.20 | We are making disasters worse p.20 | Let Africa decide about modified crops p.21 | Anti-nanotech campaign takes off p.21 | |
Round-up in brief China in space; million-dollar problem solved; the big rip; a pill a day; giant squid; autistic genius; self-pleasure is good for you; bugs' breathing secrets p.22 | | |||||||||||
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| The secrets of strained silicon p.27 | More useful work for idle PCs p.28 | Sharpening MRI images p.29 | Light rides down naked nanofibres p.29 | | ||||||||
TRENDS: MACHINE TALK Old cellphone networks could soon hum with the chatter of a new breed of communicators p.30 | | |||||||||||
COUNTDOWN TO MARS The long wait is almost over. In the next few weeks a fleet of probes will arrive at the Red Planet, and looking for evidence of life will be a top priority p.32 | | |||||||||||
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Histories If HMS Beagle hadn't sailed to the Galapagos, the Falkland Islands fox might have starred in Darwin's theory of evolution. Instead it went extinct p.80 | | |||||||||||
Books Back to the Astronomy Cafây Sten Odenwald | Sea Dragon by Richard Ellis | Plants for People by Anna Lewington | Jungle by Charlotte Uhlenbroek | The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin | Mars on Earth by Robert Zubrin | Beagle by Colin Pillinger | | |||||
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