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10 June 1995

Issue 1981

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Simulated cities: the game grows up

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Time to dig up the I≡way

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Nanoworlds are made of this

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Making a monkey of human nature

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News

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Enigma: No. 826 Crescents

A RECTANGLE has sides &tgr; and 1/&tgr;, where &tgr; is the golden ratio &tgr; = ½ (√5+1). The circle circumscribing the rectangle is drawn, and semicircles are constructed on each of the four sides. What is the total area of the four "crescent moons", within the semi-circles, but outside the large circle? A £10 book …

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

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Technology

South Africa sprays over the cracks

News

Technology

Telltale flashes catch bombers

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Seaside volcano spouts fire and ice

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Puny proteins predict breast cancer risk

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Cosmic 'snooker' pots gamma rays

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Ice age turns one species into two

News

Sea creatures give up their crystal secrets

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Technology

Hard grafts cuts out bypass surgery

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Designer DNA silences cancer gene

News

'Velcro' spiders let rip to warn off predators

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Summertime

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Environmental Role

News

Technology

Airline gambles on mile-high video

News

Technology

Hormone cuts grass down to size

News

Technology

Childhood protein rescues adult teeth

News

Technology

Pouring oil on polluted waters

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Dirty water

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Genetic abuse

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Lab at risk

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Butch algae besiege castle

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Sticky situation

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Best foot forward

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Techno police

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Tokyo wages war on waste

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E-dole for Berlin's Cybervolk

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Mayors and mosquitoes vie for votes in France

News

Japan comes clean on leprosy policy

News

High-scoring crickets return for a second innings

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Biological warfare down on the farm

News

Whale hunts are 'irrelevant' for research

News

You never know where you are with the Pentagon

News

Building boom destroys Israel's delicate dunes

News

Jurassic giants saved from rust

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Rich nations squabble over future of Chernobyl

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Blast wakes ghosts of nuclear past

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Cheese please but don't chill it

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Hospital errors are number three killer in Australia

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Opinion

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Real-life drama

HOSPITAL horror stories of muddled records and surgeons removing the wrong organ from the wrong patient are commonplace in the tabloids. But figures released this week from a study of hospitals in Australia suggest that they need to be taken a lot more seriously. Researchers at two Australian universities went looking for "adverse events" (the …

Opinion

All you need is … wisdom

Opinion

Features

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Simulated cities: the game grows up

YOU enter the theatre and take your seat in a plush executive chair. The lights dim, and on the screen, filling your field of view, you see the San Diego Convention Center in California, decked out for the Republican convention of 1996. Using fingertip controls in the arm of your seat, you explore the foyer, …

Features

Time to dig up the I≡way

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Nanoworlds are made of this

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Making a monkey of human nature

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Statistical sampling

Statistical sampling

"EIGHT out of ten cats prefer new improved Katphood with nourishing vitafibres." How often have you seen a claim of this kind and wondered what it really meant? How many cats took part in the trials, for example? Was the sample big enough to give accurate results? Taken literally, the claim could mean that the …

Inside Science

How to add value to dinosaurs

Forum

Prevention is better than cure

Forum

So whose side are the angels on?

Forum

How the West won the war against polio

Books & Arts

You can't have your quantum cake and eat it

Books & Arts

20 000 visitors under the sea

Forum

All the world from A to Z and back again

Books & Arts

Memories are not made of this

Books & Arts

Countdown to a powerful revolution

Books & Arts

Always look on the bright side of life

Books & Arts

Blood, sweat, tears … and snot

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

LAST AUTUMN, NATO sponsored a research workshop at Barnaul in Siberia on the health impact of nuclear weapons tests. It was attended by 60 eminent scientists from around the globe who obviously took the topic very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that at the closing banquet they decided to form the "International Atomic Lake Swimming …

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