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22 April 1995

Issue 1974

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Sex & the symmetrical body

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Slicing through fat

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Adipose is ok

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Sexual power of the waistline

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Rise and fall of big people

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Bodies

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Toxic 'chain reaction' kills brain cells

THE DEMENTIA associated with Alzheimer's disease may be caused by toxins that the body's own immune cells produce. Researchers in Italy and the US have found that when immune cells from mouse brains are exposed to proteins from the brains of patients with Alzheimer's, they produce chemicals which destroy nerve cells. The nerve cell death …

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Eye drops are unmoved by tears

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Virus with a mission to destroy tumours

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How much to dish up digital TV?

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Brain scan lights up route to Alzheimer's

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Have the stars being lying about their age?

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Fresh blow for greenhouse sceptics

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Tadpoles snatch savlation from the jaws of disaster

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Why rock artists turned to animals

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Killer trees choked ocean life

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Workers of the beehive, unite!

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Technology

Netropolitan – Sneaky Weapons

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Technology

Netropolitan – Flames

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Technology

Netropolitan – Application Forms

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Netropolitan – Replies

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Glowing fibres signal radiation

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World Wide Web gains a new dimension

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Program cooks up a recipe for health

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Pioneering robot comes to light

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Nosy neighbour

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Mother's ruin

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Bats in the belfry

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Poor relations

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Saving Snake River's wild salmon

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Britain must spend more showing off its inventions

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Heart-stopper

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Help for men

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Enemies prepare to pounce on wildlife law

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France counts the cost of cheap diesel

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US bans gene prejudice at work

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Sun lights up Germany's bus stops

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Experts call for tighter ro-ro safety

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Did toxic mix cause Gulf sickness?

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Grapefruit helps after transplants

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Net hijacks international phone calls

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Old tyres keep fairways green

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Axe falls on aid researchers

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Happy pills frighten off depressed people

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Ivory ban fails to stop the slaughter

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Money for organs attracts 'dodgy donors'

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Tell me, what seems to be the problem?

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Opinion

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Just because you're brilliant …

AT long last, the most important stage of the murder trial of American football star O.J. Simpson is arriving. Throughout the past three months the prosecutors have been trying to establish that Simpson had both the motive and the opportunity to murder his ex-wife and her friend. From here on, however, science takes centre stage. …

Opinion

Every child a wanted child?

Opinion

Features

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Sex & the symmetrical body

FORGET the perfectly balanced bodies of a marble Adonis or Venus. In the world of real flesh, asymmetry rules. Hands, feet, ears, ankles, breasts – all can, and indeed do, differ in size or shape from one side of the body to another, if only by millimetres. To our conscious selves, these small deviations from …

Features

Slicing through fat

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Adipose is ok

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Sexual power of the waistline

Features

Rise and fall of big people

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Bodies

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Spilling oil on troubled waters

GOOD can come out of evil. At the time, the destruction of the Braer oil tanker off the coast of Shetland seemed an unmitigated disaster. I am not the only person to be concerned about the long-term effects of the oil spill on the benthos – the organisms living on the ocean floor. I have …

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Enigma No. 819 The money mountain

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Download to up citations

Books & Arts

Can secrecy breed excellence?

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What will the stork bring?

Books & Arts

Understanding research

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I promise not to call you a moron again

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Under the yoke of accuracy

Books & Arts

Quarks and leptons all in a row

Books & Arts

A modern data pilot

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

READERS CONTINUE to send in stories of the carefree nature of school science experiments in the less safety-conscious days of yore. For example, as we pointed out on 25 March, the hazards of mercury were unknown, or at least ignored, in those days. Richard Lawson and Ian Field both remember an experiment demonstrating the emission …

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