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2 December 1995

Issue 2006

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Spheres of influence

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The way of logic

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Plague fiction

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Please extinguish your laptop

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News

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Enigma 851

Age-old question THE CLASS kept pestering the teacher to tell them her age. So she gave them a numerical exercise leading to it. She wrote two whole numbers on the board which, as she told the class, added together gave the square of her age. Most of the class then correctly worked out her age, …

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Growth factors wire the brain for vision

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Rare dwarfs unzip tumour mystery

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Evolution's big bang explained

News

Technology

Cancer squad targets 'immortal' gene

News

Technology

It's good to talk … to your rightful owner

News

Technology

Fill 'em full of tungsten

News

Technology

Keeping better track of trains

News

Technology

Netropolitan – your own home page

News

Technology

Netropolitan – free space

News

Technology

Netropolitan – where to find us

News

Technology

How to switch off the madding crowd

News

Technology

Take the plunge into virtual art

News

Technology

Tiny worm turns into a fly killer

News

Technology

Tricks of the light foil digital data tappers

News

Burns heal faster with insulin

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Shapely polymers go electronic

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Cosa Nostra cuckoos rule by terror

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'Old faithful' erupts in space

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Supercool theory solves hot ice cream puzzle

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Hawking throws Higgs into black holes

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Kenya's little miracle

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A taste for Swede

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Nuclear bombshell

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Lethal turnaround

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Frozen organs

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Can't give it away …

News

Ghost town

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Fault finding on the roof of the world

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Great and good join forces for world peace

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Canadian conservation plans scorned

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Trouble in the wind over altered soya beans

News

Stone Age carving is just a modern fake

News

Green consumers need incentives

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Please don't cuddle the koalas

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Virtual woman goes online

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Clash over radiation safety limits

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Snub for tobacco industry research

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Indonesian ban wrecks ocean experiments

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Shark extract takes a bite out of sexual diseases

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Why shopping trips end in tears for the kids

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Terrifying outlook for Chernobyl's babies

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The particle now leaving platform 4 …

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Opinion

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How low can we go?

HOW low must a dose of radiation be before it can be considered safe? For the past few decades, most radiation biologists would have answered that there is no totally safe level. Of course, they would agree that the lower the exposure to radiation, the smaller the risk of damage and of developing cancers such …

Opinion

Features

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Spheres of influence

TINY sea creatures create intricate, microscopic structures which have long been the envy of materials scientists. Marine organisms such as radiolarians, diatoms and coccolithophores make themselves delicate shells out of silica or calcium carbonate with exquisite, infinitely varied designs. Now scientists believe they have discovered some of nature's architectural secrets and are using them to …

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The way of logic

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Plague fiction

Features

Please extinguish your laptop

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A little less night music

AS an MP, I hold weekend surgeries when my constituents can air their problems with me. Thirty years ago tiffs with the neighbours were few and far between. Today, there is a constant stream of them. Are we less tolerant and more belligerent now? Well, perhaps both. But I am certain that one of the …

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New Zealand reforms come at a cost

Forum

That's the way the cookie crumbles

Forum

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

A bird in the pot or two in the bush?

Forum

Getting to grips with the aliens

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Axe to culture

Books & Arts

Nature study

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Out there?

Books & Arts

Home health

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Hypochondriacs, read on

Books & Arts

Darwinism made too simple

Books & Arts

Who cares?

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The eyes have it

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Rocks and roll

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Evolution by numbers

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Bomb culture

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Regulars

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Feedback

IT WAS recently reported in The Scotsman that up to 2500 tonnes of nuclear waste had been deposited on top of a million-tonne dump of Second World War munitions in a stretch of sea no more than ten kilometres off the southwest coast of Scotland called Beauforts Dyke (see "Danger from the deep", New Scientist, …

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