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18 May 1996

Issue 2030

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Secrets from another Earth - After three years, the $200-million bid to build a Martian colony on Earth, collapsed in disarray. Now, says Gabrielle Walker, Biosphere 2 has a team of top scientists with a brand new dream

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Where two worlds meet...

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Technology

Technology : The real winner at Eurovision

HI-TECH radio microphones will take this year's Eurovision Song Contest to the cutting edge of sound technology. Performers need radio microphones so that they can move around. But if there are too many there is the danger that they will interfere with each other. The risk is that a particularly heart-rending Croatian torch song will …

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Technology : Congress may close spooks' back door

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Technology : Designer antibodies hold tumours in lethal embrace

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Technology : Electric storm forecast could save satellites

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Technology : Ferry service laid on for space commuters

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Technology : Red cells race towards a diagnosis

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Technology : A sideways look at liquid crystal displays

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Science : Heavy hydrogen unbalances the big bang

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Science : Dinosaur DNA fails new test of time

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Science : Molecular switch throws light on a miniature future

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Science : HIV team cracks receptor mystery

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Science : Do gamma rays burst from a quark soup?

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Science : `Junkyard' yields new weapon against cystic fibrosis

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Science : Fur and feathers rose as plates pulled apart

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Net arrests

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Lean machine

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Smokescreen

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Healthy pinta

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Prostate cooker

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Written out of history - Britain's nuclear test veterans may lose their long battle for compensation because the government is threatening to axe a database containing their medical records

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Bottle-fed babies need brain boosting formula

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Cars must go to meet clean air target

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Flying houseboat lands an award

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Australia dashes astronomers' hopes

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Shape-shifting hormones keep hearts healthy

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Land of the vanishing researcher

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Secret evidence convicts wild birds

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Pill may hasten HIV infection

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Tropical smogs rival big city smoke

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Deadly blooms reach Britain's rivers

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TV hell for millions as Channel 5 goes on air

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Children learn faster to the sound of music

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Companies turn blind eye to diddlers and spoofers

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Legal axe hangs over green timber

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Opinion

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Editorial : Not in anyone's backyard . . . - LAST week, the German government sent in 9000 policemen armed with truncheons and water cannon against 3000 antinuclear campaigners with little more than hoods and scarfs to protect them. That an army of riot p

LAST week, the German government sent in 9000 policemen armed with truncheons and water cannon against 3000 antinuclear campaigners with little more than hoods and scarfs to protect them. That an army of riot police is considered necessary to deal with a ragged band of protesters is a sure sign that something is rotten in …

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Editorial : Australia turns a blind eye - AUSTRALIA has long had a magnificent reputation with astronomers, mainly because of its willingness to invest in telescopes that exploit its location in the southern hemisphere. How sad, then, that this is being u

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COMEDIANS, choreographers and composers will all tell you the same: the secret's in the timing. It's not just words or notes or pirouettes in isolation that carry the message, but the rhythm, the pace…the pauses. A small but vocal group of neuroscientists now argue that the same holds true for the neurons that shuttle messages …

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Hello is anyone there

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Secrets from another Earth - After three years, the $200-million bid to build a Martian colony on Earth, collapsed in disarray. Now, says Gabrielle Walker, Biosphere 2 has a team of top scientists with a brand new dream

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Where two worlds meet...

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Antipodes : Fuel cells promise a greener valley - Ian Lowe investigates a new coal technology

THE LaTrobe Valley in Victoria is famous for its huge seams of brown coal, over sixty metres thick. The seams constitute a massive energy resource. But being about two-thirds water, the coal is a poor fuel. Burning it doesn't produce much heat—about 20 per cent of the amount per kilogramme from good black coal. Another …

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Thistle diary : Lynx on a hot tin roof - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Enigma 875 : Oh hell!

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Review special : Doing it the alien way

Books & Arts

Review special : Only connect

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Review special : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

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Review special : Collected works

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Forum : Living death of a ghost town

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Forum : The self-confidence trick

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Review special : Hijacking Earth

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Review special : Affair to remember

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Review special : Origins of misery

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Review special : Return to Goodall

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Review special : Speaking in many tongues

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Review special : . . . and again

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Review special : Ape and essence

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Review special : An anthropologist in space

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Review special : Freud's riposte

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Review special : Vita in vitro

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Review special : Original altruist

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Review special : Art's retort

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Review special : Talking about evolution

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Review special : Come again . . .

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Review special : Sex and sensibility

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Review special : Women's room

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Review special : So let them eat algae. . .

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Deep breath Q: Is it true that every time we take a breath of air or swallow a mouthful of water, we consume some of the atoms breathed or swallowed by Leonardo da Vinci (as I read in a children's science book in 1960)? A: We do indeed breathe in a considerable number of molecules …

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