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29 April 1995

Issue 1975

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When planes fall out of the sky

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Bubbles hotter than the Sun

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Let's hear it for the pea

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Life, The Movie

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Netropolitan – Drivel on the Net

MEANWHILE, many newsgroups generate more heat than light, and Netropolitan has come across a marvellous new word to describe drivel on the Net. As John Pike, director of space policy and "cyberstrategy projects" at the Federation of American Scientists says, there are lots of "factinos" careering around out there. A factino is to a fact …

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

News

Patents

News

Gravitational constant is up in the air

News

Model lenses reveal hot and cold Universe

News

Fruit flies achieve total recall

News

Clampdown on the rust buckets

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Acceptable Behaviour

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Genetics

News

Technology

Hidden weapons give themselves up

News

Technology

Chewing over the secrets of tasty food

News

Technology

Dust monitor sizes up an airborne killer

News

Technology

Plastic and protein forge an alliance

News

Technology

Great leap forward for superconductors

News

Do WIMPs dominate MACHOs?

News

Early plants pinned down by their reproductive organs

News

How to survive when defenders turn traitor

News

Floodwaters threaten to topple India's dams

News

First vertebrates went in for the kill

News

Minoan farmers were muckspreaders

News

Russia and France 'to save space plan'

News

Why low cholesterol can get you down

News

Long arm of the law nets butterfly poachers

News

Bell sale

News

Good citations?

News

Journey into the inner ear

News

In orbit

News

Eurocash

News

More, please

News

Spiders on speed get weaving

News

Can the coelacanth be saved?

News

No turning back to leaded petrol, says MPs

News

Sea diet makes for tastier trout

News

Survey plumbs depths of international ignorance

News

Literate women make better mothers

News

Arizona fights for the right to stay cool

News

Technology

Cherry red and very dangerous

News

Humming horse puzzles vets

News

Opinion

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Written in the stars

COMMUNISM may not have achieved much for the economies of Eastern Europe but it certainly drove out some old superstitions. In a world wide survey aimed at finding out how much people know about science and the environment (see This Week), only 18 per cent of Russians and 23 per cent of Czechs said they …

Opinion

The colour of danger

Opinion

Features

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When planes fall out of the sky

AS USAir Flight 1016 began its final approach to Charlotte Airport in North Carolina on 2 July last year, the weather erupted. Light drizzle became torrential rain and mild winds turned into violent gusts of up to 60 knots. As the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 approached, the captain decided that poor visibility and unpredictable winds made …

Features

Bubbles hotter than the Sun

Features

Let's hear it for the pea

Features

Life, The Movie

Features

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In charge and dressed to kill

IT HAS always seemed a little odd that the US doesn't have anything equivalent to a science minister. The President's science advisor comes close, but in recent years the influence of the incumbent was limited, largely because the office has no budget. Power and money tend to run together in most places, and Washington is …

Forum

Enigma No. 820 Hard Cheese

Forum

An eye for Munchausen

Books & Arts

Towards a single carbon currency

Forum

Vive la différence

Forum

Where the best brains are

Books & Arts

Big bangers and biscuits

Books & Arts

Tribute to the infinitesimal

Books & Arts

Through the black hole

Books & Arts

Incredible shrinking visions

Books & Arts

Dystopias and other futures

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IN THE RUN-UP to Britain's national dialling code changes on 16 April, Don Cruickshank, director of Oftel, the regulatory body which approved and masterminded the changes, appeared on TV and made a remarkable pledge. "Once we have put the 1 in front of all the present numbers, no one who has such a number will …

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