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5 June 1999

Issue 2189

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Home sweet home

Features
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The quick and the dead

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Swarming the Red Planet

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Catch the wave

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News

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Male clone strikes a blow for equality

UNTIL now, all the animals cloned from adult cells and described in the scientific literature have been females. That's why Fibrio, a mouse created from a cell from the tail of an adult male mouse, is cloning's latest celebrity. Fibrio, born last October, is unveiled to the world in this month's issue of Nature Genetics …

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Those lungs were made for hearing

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Break out

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Cosy nights

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Head bangers

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Sleep signals

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Gems galore

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Viagra rush

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Dope for all

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Enter the e-police

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In for the krill

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Pass the paper bag

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Big star ate my planet...

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Ancient armadillos go clubbing in South America

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Boiled is best

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Clever cooker

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Tin cleans up in electronics

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Carbon fixing

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Recording room

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Fail-safe under fire

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Name that whiff

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Last stand

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Flooded out

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Sudden death

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Radio transmitters keep tabs on players

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Too hot to handle

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Earth calling ET . . . we mead you know harm

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Toxic test

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Bad timing

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Hubble knows

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River of no return

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Blazing hot

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Running late

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Modifying morals

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Heading our way

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High risk

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Hit and near miss

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Mike makes light of sensing sound

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Slowly does it

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Technology

Gutted

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Technology

Pedal clamp

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Technology

Fear of flying

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High and dry

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Beat the bug

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A drip in time and space

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Way to grow

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Opinion

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The heat's still on

TO many people's surprise, it now seems likely that for the past century, the Sun has been gradually pumping out more and more energy. This might seem just what the industry lobby has been waiting for—there may be another culprit for global warming than all those gas-guzzling cars and power plants. But thankfully, the clever …

Opinion

Control is all

Opinion

Features

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Home sweet home

WOULD you consider buying a house without ever setting eyes on it? An economist I know did just that. He simply drew up a list of desirable characteristics, gave it to his estate agent and retired to his ivory tower. As soon as his ideal home turned up he reappeared, cheque book in hand. Personally, …

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The quick and the dead

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Swarming the Red Planet

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Catch the wave

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Time to go public

AUSTRALIA'S new chief scientist, Robin Batterham, is a firm advocate of a greater public awareness of science. To achieve that end he wants to aim at two groups in particular—politicians and school teachers. Batterham sees raising the level of science literacy among politicians and primary school teachers as the keys to community recognition of the …

Forum

What's in a name?

Forum

. . . . .

Forum

Back to the body

Books & Arts

Friend of fungus

Books & Arts

U for unremarkable

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Special creation

Books & Arts

My cup overflows

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Lone star

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Northward Ho!

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Can't change, won't change

Forum

from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Gene genie

Books & Arts

Big bio biog

Books & Arts

Book of beasts

Books & Arts

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Feedback

ONE OF THE special joys of working with computers is discovering the new and interesting ways they can create mistakes. The latest wordprocessors catch typing errors on the fly, correcting them automatically as you continue typing. Fine, so long as their idea of an error is the same as yours. But this isn't always the …

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