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12 June 1999

Issue 2190

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Hard wiring

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Only one world
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Hard wiring

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Holey Light

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Hell's teeth

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Why we don't lay eggs

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Cool dwarfs

ASTRONOMERS have glimpsed a new type of celestial object—smaller and cooler than most brown dwarfs but larger than giant planets. Two of these "methane dwarfs" were found using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which systematically maps the night sky. With a surface temperature of 900 K, the first of the objects is …

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Queasy rider

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No snow show

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Bee nice to me

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Snail express

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Shadow of a doubt

News

Pierced to the heart

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No more Mir

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Is there art on Mars?

News

Gulping monitors run rings round other lizards

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Light work

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Look, no sick bag!

News

Programmed to win

News

Look who I had in the back of my cab …

News

Porn police

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A carbon fix?

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Fragrant shorts

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Out of the dark

News

Now hear this!

News

Oh give me a home …

News

Technology

In the family

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Playing the cosmic lottery

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Warp factor one

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Space

Missing the point

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Needles away

News

Life

The lost world in your gut

News

Life

Viral defenders

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Technology

Breathe easy

News

Technology

Window bug

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Technology

Treble bar

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Stunning gun

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Bubble wrap

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Cracking code

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Mercury alert

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Farmer forced to destroy engineered crop

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Life

Revenge of the fried flies

News

Life

A taste for Martian living

News

Life

Space sickness

News

How to really inflame a painful situation

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Foul brew

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Crash landing

News

Polar alert

News

Drugged driving

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Radio silence

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We hope it's harmless...

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Recipe for disaster

News

Opinion

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Only one world

THIS IS truly a tale for the end of the millennium. A single batch of fat contaminated with dioxins and PCBs produced in just one factory in Belgium triggers a worldwide panic. Supermarket shelves have to be cleared, thousands of tonnes of food have to be destroyed and farmers suffer export embargoes from frightened nations …

Opinion

Features

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Hard wiring

It's the stuff of dreams, at least as far as neuroscientists are concerned: a living model of a real brain that they can grow in any lab. With careful nurturing and development, such a model could reveal how the brain learns, how it remembers and how it communicates. And that's not all. Give engineers such …

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Holey Light

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Hell's teeth

Features

Why we don't lay eggs

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. . . . .

WITH the events unfolding in Kosovo, the whole issue of post-traumatic stress disorder returns to the fore. Psychiatrists, led by Martin Deahl of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, a Territorial Army officer and civilian consultant adviser in psychiatry to the Royal Air Force, studied 106 British soldiers when they returned home after six months of peace-keeping …

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Spies like us

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Universal youth

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Chemical daze

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Physics

String's the thing

Books & Arts

The right prescription

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Home grown

Forum

Body map

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Slices of life

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All change

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from Cambridge

Books & Arts

Right to roam

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Place your bets

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Golden oldie

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Way down South

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Jumbo

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When the Feast is Finished by Brian Aldiss

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Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK is lost in admiration for the research department of the Tesco supermarket chain. Last month it was widely reported that the store's psychologists had discovered that customers thought about the size of women's breasts when they were buying melons and that, in accordance with current fashion trends, both men and women preferred smaller fruit. …

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