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15 July 1995

Issue 1986

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Fighting fire with fire

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Enigma No. 831: Pot black

IN the snooker match between Davis and Whyte, the winner was the first player to win a certain number of frames, not greater than 16; the match ended as soon as one player had won the required number of frames. It is impossible for a frame to be halved. Davies won all the frames played …

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All charged up in minutes flat

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Technology

Don't get wired, get a radio

News

Technology

Sweet-smelling spuds stop sprouting

News

Technology

Why gene hunters need hot springs

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Technology

Netropolitan – Scientific Exploration

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Technology

Netropolitan – Animal Parks

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

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Silicon islands promise more power to PCs

News

Technology

Plants shrug off disease after antifungal 'jab'

News

Technology

Flat, flawless TV heads for market

News

Closing in on the tau of Alzheimer's

News

Diversity is a double-edged sword

News

Mystery of the disappearing blue blobs

News

Malaria stripped of its deadly disguises

News

Well water warned of Kobe quake

News

Ocean's stardust tells of asteroid impacts

News

Monkey 'murderers' may be falsely accused

News

… while industry blocks international ban

News

Cancer compendium

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Costing a bomb

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Environment

Return of the little lemur

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Conflict of interest

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Sick of milk

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French fumes

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Safety signals set at danger

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Wild outlook for captive condors

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Lead trickles through European loophole …

News

Made-to-measure vaccine overwhelms cancer cells

News

Mr Butts tells tobacco tales

News

The boy who would be Louis XVII

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Science shuffles into obscurity

News

Loggers barred from Poland's ancient forest

News

Families say 'no' to organ transplants

News

Australia's screen heroes face the big chill

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Dounreay's lethal particles 'fell off the back of a lorry'

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Britain gives away aged ice station

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Opinion

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Who kidnapped science?

TRY as you might, it is impossible to find a logical reason for last week's decision to move Britain's Office of Science and Technology from the Cabinet Office to the Department of Trade and Industry. It would have been comforting to discern some master strategy – or any strategy – to explain the shift. But …

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Pacific outrage

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Spinning images from mercury mirrors

THREE miles outside the small town of Cloudcroft in New Mexico, astronomers are putting the final touches to an unusual telescope. Instead of a large glass mirror to collect and focus light, NASA's Orbital Debris Observatory has a spinning bowl of mercury at its heart. As it turns, the liquid metal forms a curved surface …

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Foxes, fishes and tax incentives

RABIES is a highly emotive subject and some of our continental colleagues think we Brits are stupidly irrational about it. However, for more than seven decades, our strict quarantine laws have kept us free from la rage. As John Bonner explained recently in "Britain pussyfoots on pets passports" (New Scientist, 3 June), the WHO thinks …

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Everything new or curious

Books & Arts

Never mind the science, feel the emotion

Forum

Why are fish dying on both sides of the Tasman?

Forum

Stop! Book vandals at large

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Letters to a friend

Books & Arts

Know the enemy within

Books & Arts

Don't believe what you read

Books & Arts

It was here …

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Checking up on Newton

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Forensic chemistry in the dock

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Regulars

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Feedback

PHILIPS, the Dutch electronics giant, recently held a two-day conference in Eindhoven to celebrate its semiconductor division's near-miraculous turnaround from financial disaster to booming success. The event was held at the Evoluon, the futuristic building shaped like a flying saucer that Philips built in 1966 as a public science museum and which it now uses …

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