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Jan 25th 2001 | SANTA FE In the early 1990s, the science of complexity made a big noise but cast little light. Now its chastened practitioners are having another go ... more |
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Perfumes and the immune system Contrary to popular belief, perfumes may be worn to enhance, rather than suppress, existing bodily odours Jan 25th 2001 Mapping brains with maths A 19th-century mathematical technique is making it possible to map the details of people's brains Jan 25th 2001 Sorting waste plastic with a laser Recycling black plastic from consumer durables is usually a chore, but a new laser-based technology may change all that Jan 25th 2001 Nanofabrication in three dimensions Existing methods of making microelectronic components are essentially two-dimensional. But a third dimension will soon be added Jan 18th 2001 A tale of lizards and flowers Insects, birds and mammals have all been co-opted by plants to help them reproduce. And now it has emerged that a lizard has, too Jan 18th 2001 Starting cars from cold In an ideal world cars would run on two different fuels-now, a Texan engineer thinks he has the problem cracked Jan 18th 2001 Creating bandwidth from thin air New research shows how telecoms companies might be able to deliver more information, at a faster speed, over the same airwaves Jan 18th 2001 The making of genius Psychologists are divided over whether genius is innate or acquired. Nobody has yet been smart enough to figure it out Jan 11th 2001 Working out how cells work Work out how proteins interact within a cell and you learn a lot about how that cell works Jan 11th 2001 What the Milky Way had for breakfast The Milky Way, the earth's home galaxy, may be home to a large population of alien stars Jan 11th 2001 An earthlike extrasolar planet? At the American Astronomical Association's winter meeting, evidence was presented that suggests, but does not prove, the existence of earth-sized planets orbiting other stars Jan 11th 2001
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Jan 4th 2001 Analysing communications in firms Jan 4th 2001 Teaching machines to see Jan 4th 2001 Musical taste and dementia Jan 4th 2001 New flora and fauna for old Dec 21st 2000 Gerontological incertitude Dec 21st 2000 Who wants to live for ever? Dec 21st 2000 The water of life Dec 21st 2000 The secrets of science and natural history museums Dec 21st 2000 How to map biodiversity Dec 21st 2000 Neural networks and protein structure Dec 21st 2000 A new flat-screen technology Dec 21st 2000 Doubts about fingerprints Dec 14th 2000 The virtues of DDT Dec 14th 2000 The first plant genome Dec 14th 2000 An ocean on Ganymede Dec 14th 2000 |
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