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4 March 1995

Issue 1967

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End of the Green Crusade

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Hunting the Horse Killer

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Molecules to make plants tick

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Japan Heads for Quantum Country

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News

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Crystals bid for diamond's crown

DIAMOND is still the hardest substance known to science. But a group of American researchers say that they have produced a composite material that contains crystals of carbon nitride, a substance that scientists believe stands a good chance of being even harder. The search for superhard materials started in earnest in the late 1980s, when …

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Busy bees have a gift for numbers

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The metal-plated mountains of Venus

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Cosmic collisions could solve gamma-ray mystery

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Technology

Magnesium smelter puts toxic waste to work

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Technology

'Electron highway' points to identity of DNA

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Technology

Battle for Britain's phone numbers

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Technology

Quantum tunnel leads to microscopic fridge

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Technology

Bright future for glowing gene

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Technology

Netropolitan – English Language

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Technology

Netropolitan – Net Designers

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

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Technology

Mini tubes help chips let off steam

News

Technology

It's good to talk like a human

News

Rain moves north in the global greenhouse

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Molecular knots trip the light fantastic

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Genetic engineering in the womb

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'Dry' orgasms could spawn a male pill

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Feeling is believing in medicine

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Liver in a box could bridge transplant gap

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Fungus hits bugs in the gut

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Language deaths 'bad for us all'

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Pests leave lasting impression on plants

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Arctic ice shows speed of climate 'flips'

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People outdo the elements as shapers of the landscape

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Why the search for smart genes is doomed

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Lessons for mothers who want a quiet life

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Could an earthquake strike New York?

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Big One threatens the Big Apple

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Israelis at odds over old bones

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Warm hearts in a cold land

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City must give R&D a chance

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Asbestos shock in Kobe cleanup

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Trust promises research dividend

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'Pruned' patent sets precedent

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Old photos chart destruction of Australia's reef

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Skimmed milk may be healthier for babies too

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Filling station fires spark cars' recall

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Lonesome pines at risk from collectors

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Enigma: No 812 Upon my word!

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Opinion

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All our origins

BACK in the 1980s, the police were called to a cemetery in Washington DC. They arrived to find a group of men hard at work digging up a grave. One stood by taking notes, while another took photographs. When questioned, they said that they were Inuit anthropologists from the Arctic. "Your anthropologists often come to …

Opinion

Queensberry's final KO?

Opinion

Features

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End of the Green Crusade

ON 5 January 1993, Britain awoke to news that an oil tanker was drifting without power off Shetland. The Braer finally caught on the rocks of Garth's Ness, and the country became swamped by breathless predictions from environmental campaigners that here was disaster in the making. In fact, the immense power of the stormy sea …

Features

Hunting the Horse Killer

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Molecules to make plants tick

Features

Japan Heads for Quantum Country

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Model weed at work

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH's recent television series The Private Life of Plants beautifully illustrates plants as widely diverse creatures, performing complex functions few of us notice. But as Arabidopsis: An Atlas of Morphology and Development (Springer-Verlag, pp 450, £58.50/$79) makes clear, there are very few private events left to reveal in the life of this once insignificant …

Books & Arts

B is for boron and buckyballs

Books & Arts

A Frenchman in his prime

Books & Arts

Hands across the Straits

Books & Arts

Provisional tales from the fact factory

Books & Arts

A good guide in a crisis

Books & Arts

A dig or two at the past

Books & Arts

Notes from the edge of the Universe

Books & Arts

What turns a bug into a beauty

Books & Arts

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly …

Books & Arts

Stirrings in the primordial soup

Books & Arts

Time to play the numbers game

Forum

Who will teach the teachers their primary lessons?

Forum

Let's leave the cadet astronauts at home

Forum

Counting the cost of inadequate maths

Forum

Taking the heart out of the land

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE Department of Trade and Industry is energetically promoting its SMART Award scheme, which gives British firms up to £150 000 each to help them develop innovative ideas. The leaflet the department is sending out about the scheme uses the example of Jim Montgomerie, who has almost finished developing a two-seat autogyro pilot trainer with …

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