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8 March 1997

Issue 2072

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It takes two

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The secret is in the fridge

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How right can you be?

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Glass pharmacy - Preserved in minute beads of sugar, drugs could last for years and be easier to take, too. Ben Crystall investigates

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News

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Technology

Netropolitan :

IN SPACE, no one can hear you scream—and they probably wouldn't be able to hear you shout "Fire!" either. It's lucky then that we have the Net to keep us up to date with the drama being played out over our heads on the Mir space station and shuttle missions. Late last month a fire …

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Contacts that help your eyes breathe more easily

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Technology

Technology : Many bands make light work

News

Technology

Technology : Rewriting rules on CD-ROMs

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Science : Odd timing keeps cicadas in their prime

News

Science : Buckyball `transistor' raises nanocomputing hopes

News

Science : The mystery of the missing penis

News

Technology

Technology : Vaccine promises to stop the slaughter

News

Technology

Technology : If you want to buy or sell, get an agent

News

Technology

Technology : Plants acquire taste for `blood'

News

Science : Gut reaction is your best guide

News

Science : Laser sheds light on how coral grows

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Science : Desert dunes sing silica's song

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Science : A dream drug for weight watchers?

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Morning after

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Stay of execution

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The ecology of violence

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Filthy air pushes Delhi to crisis point

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Return to sender

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Rabbits' reprieve

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Facelift for labs

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Business boffins

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AIDS deaths fall

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SOHO reveals the Sun's hidden halo

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India looks farther east for its ancestors

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Cold War waste fouls the Clyde

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Data miners only strike fool's gold

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Drugs firms fight biowar curbs

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Furry subversives undermine Britain's railways

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`Fly swatter' hunts satellite snoops

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Stressed plants cry for help

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Gene research meets the environment

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Will cloned cows rise from the dead?

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Supermoths spell trouble for natural pesticide

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Recycling madness revives obsolete plants

News

Opinion

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Editorial : A growing irony - IT IS always a tragedy when a gift from nature is squandered, whether it is a river dead from pollution or a forest laid to waste for timber. Let's hope that the biotechnology industry is not about to throw away the enormous

IT IS always a tragedy when a gift from nature is squandered, whether it is a river dead from pollution or a forest laid to waste for timber. Let's hope that the biotechnology industry is not about to throw away the enormous potential of a simple bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, in its haste to get to …

Opinion

Features

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It takes two

Stronger, stiffer and lighter than ordinary alloys, metals reinforced with microscopic wires of another metal could be the supermaterials of the future, reports Michael Judge

Features

The secret is in the fridge

Features

How right can you be?

Features

Glass pharmacy - Preserved in minute beads of sugar, drugs could last for years and be easier to take, too. Ben Crystall investigates

Features

More

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Forum : All the fun of the fest

London WHY are so few young people in Britain choosing a career in science? It's a sobering thought for the many scientists, engineers and technologists who are hard at work preparing for the nation's fourth National Week of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET97), which begins on Friday, 14 March. Last year, the BSE crisis rather …

Forum

Thistle diary : Noisy skies and noxious streams - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Antipodes : Australian quarantine braces for a shake up - Ian Lowe investigates the choices facing Cabinet

Forum

Bestsellers : from Washington

Books & Arts

Forum : Holding out for some local heroes

Forum

Review : New facts of life

Books & Arts

Review : Mushroom galore

Books & Arts

Review : Disaster watch

Books & Arts

Review : Duplication and duplicity

Books & Arts

Review : From thrower to thinker

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : With hindsight

Books & Arts

Review : After Charles

Books & Arts

Review : Magic to molecules

Books & Arts

Review : The meme is the message

Books & Arts

Review : Machined history

Books & Arts

Review : My brain hurts

Books & Arts

Review : Cometary seeds

Books & Arts

Review : A new kid on the Net

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

TITAN —one of Saturn's moons—has much in common with the Earth. As well as a thick atmosphere its most abundant gas is nitrogen. But the surface temperature is –178 °C and the likelihood of life existing there is rather smaller than the chance of Feedback scooping the lottery jackpot. Nevertheless when the European Space Agency's …

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