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21 October 1995

Issue 2000

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The Milky Way lifts its veil

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Artemis and the electronauts

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Music for the senses

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Poisoned waters

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ENIGMA No.845

Draw lots! I'M sure that you are all very familiar with those football league tables, which have columns showing the number of matches won, lost and drawn by each of the teams, together with information on goals for and against, and points scored. This little problem concerns the "matches drawn" column in a league table …

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Seabed scanner pierces underwater gloom

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Netropolitan – Nobel prizes

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This vaccine will self-destruct …

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Polymer shapes up to banish cholesterol

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Netropolitan – Physics

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Netropolitan – Chemistry

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Tiny glass laser sheds more light than heat

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Lungfuls of helium put doctors in the picture

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Hot treatment for period pain

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Immune system oils the wheels of industry

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Can double dish break Sky monopoly?

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Are Saturn's rings hiding mystery moons?

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Can electrons ride an optical boom?

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Tug-of-war that can wreck a fetus

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It's the early bird that fits the bill

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Letting the quantum cat out of the bag

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When a woman becomes like a man

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Grafted testicles spurn rejection

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Trouble at the edge of time

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Human patents

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Satellite success

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Seeing the light

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Riders on the storm

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Galileo glitch

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Hot flights

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Telltale coral

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Welcome to Cell Block Heroin

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Was Shakespeare the man behind the mask?

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Strain of HIV crucial to women's risk of infection

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From the tau of physics …

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… to a disarming man of peace

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Boudicca rampaged through the streets of south London

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Ozone prophets reach rarefied heights

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US hawks rage over 'anti-nuke bias'

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'Herd instinct' drove biotech firms to the brink

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Axe sharpened for climate research

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Space station? Non merci

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The end of TV as we know it

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France barred inspectors from nuclear test sites

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Killer rabbit virus on the loose

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Bad science breeds contempt

AUSTRALIANS have many very good reasons for wanting to wipe out rabbits. Since 1859 they have been nothing but trouble. That was the year in which Thomas Austin imported 24 animals to provide some hunting at his property in Winchelsea, Victoria. The rabbits spread throughout the continent and there are now estimated to be between …

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A nobler future

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The Milky Way lifts its veil

IN THE 1969 film Doppelgänger, the world's astronomers were astonished to discover a major new planet on the far side of the Sun. Trailing precisely six months behind the Earth in its orbit, the planet had been entirely overlooked because it was lost in the dazzling solar glare. Now, in a peculiar example of science …

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Artemis and the electronauts

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Music for the senses

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Poisoned waters

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Down the valley, something stirs

WEST GLAMORGAN County Council and the National Rivers Authority Welsh Region are to be congratulated on their efforts to restore the health of the River Pelenna, the infamous "Yellow River" of the Neath district fed with water from numerous abandoned mines. The authority and council have been creating main treatment areas for each discharge, a …

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Genes on stage

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Across the Universe

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Bestsellers from San Francisco

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Collected works

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Inside the bomb factory: The Good Servant

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Heavy stuff, gravity

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Of mice and men

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Natural doings

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Classic physics

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Crime and punishment: Mind to Crime

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Turned out nice

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All there is to know

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The shape of things to come?

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Beware experts carrying stigmas

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Dealing with the exotic

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Elemental, my dear Watson: The Periodic Kingdom

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Feedback

THIS year's Ig Nobel prize ceremony drew a full house at Harvard University, where it has moved after four years down the road at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Five genuine Nobel laureates, along with coconspirators from the Annals of Improbable Research, the Harvard Computer Society and Tangents (a maths magazine published by Harvard and …

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