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5 August 1995

Issue 1989

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Bonding on the molecular building site

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Mosquitoes that kill malaria

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All wired up and raring to go

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Happiness is a magnet

Features

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News

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Enigma: No. 834 Square root of seven

THIS week I have replaced every letter of the alphabet by a digit. Of course, that means that some digits may represent several different letters, but any particular letter is replaced by the same digit throughout. With my particular use of the digits you will find that each of the following seven: TWO THREE FOUR …

News

Viral double whammy triggers cancers

News

TB epidemics bring a hundred years of suffering

News

Technology

Making semiconductors out of thin air

News

Technology

No more hanging on the telephone

News

Technology

Poisoners enlisted to fight plague

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Terrorism

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Mad science

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

News

Technology

Say cheese … the camera's listening

News

Technology

Rocket shocks bolster rig against North Sea

News

Technology

Go play in the virtual traffic …

News

Technology

Is that a hanky in your pocket?

News

Indian Ocean floor cracks up under the strain

News

Antarctic glaciers keep their cool

News

Smart traffic spies have US covered

News

Could Parkinson's patients get help at the brain bank?

News

The day the aliens failed to land …

News

Shuttles grounded

News

Guiding missiles

News

May the best robot win

News

Funding falls

News

Missing sperm

News

Monterey mystery

News

Will Saint Michel's tide ever turn?

News

Little Foot stumbles into the crossfire

News

Cosmic burps solve heavy problem

News

Humpback whales lean to the right

News

'Miracle' jab makes fat mice thin

News

The mysterious case of the wobbly possum

News

Last chance for Scotland's shrinking bogs

News

Observations face yet another review

News

Doomed Somalis saved with special diet

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Cutbacks in aid rebound on US

News

Tobacco giant 'studied addiction'

News

Tough treaty to police global fisheries

News

Opinion

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Peace on the high seas?

RECENT history makes it hard to believe that the nations of the world are capable of coming together and working out a rational set of principles to manage and conserve the fisheries of the high seas. But this week there is a faint hope that this may happen. The basic problem is that too many …

Opinion

Features

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Bonding on the molecular building site

MAKING new materials has traditionally been a matter of good cookery. Choose your ingredients, mix them carefully, pop them in the oven at the right temperature and the result – if you are lucky – is a new plastic, ceramic, semiconductor, superconductor, or whatever. But for a new generation of materials, this mix and bake …

Features

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

Features

All wired up and raring to go

Features

Happiness is a magnet

Features

More

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Engineers tap water as greatest problem

I'VE had water on the brain this week – both freshwater and seawater. Managing these resources is proving difficult for Australia. According to what I've been reading, attitudes must change. Reforms are overdue. Let's start with freshwater. Forget the current account deficit or the indiscretions of Arthur Tunstall, the most urgent problem facing Australia according …

Forum

Ozone, sand and oral histories

Forum

We shall not be moved …

Forum

If it's so damned safe, test it in Paris

Forum

Reality really

Books & Arts

The sea, sea

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Flash that shield

Books & Arts

Space balls

Books & Arts

See the deeps

Books & Arts

When once we were fish

Books & Arts

Ovay? Ovee? Oover?

Books & Arts

Happy 60th

Books & Arts

Down in the woods, something stirs

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE wonder who was responsible for drafting the Department of the Environment's report How do you want to live?, which was published in 1972. Whoever it was must have had a strange sense of humour, an inordinate love of poetry or a deep dislike of the Department of Transport, with which the DoE was forging …

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