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19 June 1999

Issue 2191

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How to rule the waves

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It's elementary

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Tunnel vision on the roads

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How to rule the waves

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Family secrets

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The engine of creation

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Top of the Pops

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Quantum foam

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It's elementary

PHYSICISTS have created two new elements by smashing a beam of krypton ions into a lead target. Ken Gregorich of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and his colleagues produced three atoms of element 118, which decayed into element 116. The new elements existed for only milliseconds before they spat out alpha particles …

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Buckybulbs

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Cosmic ice screen

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Hear hair

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The bodyguard

News

Technology

A living debt

News

Safe havens

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In the firing line

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Vaccine cleared

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Global phones

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Seventh time lucky

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Every sperm is sacred . . . for lobsters

News

Where there's smoke…

News

Beetle drive

News

Unnatural selection

News

It all fits…

News

Face values

News

Look to the eyes

News

Fast fibres

News

Turing in the genes

News

Crustacean clothing

News

Hands off our websites!

News

Out of Egypt

News

Tread carefully

News

Nerve gases just got harder to hide

News

Fertile waste

News

Once burnt…

News

Primes mean prizes

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Day of the centipede

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Freshening up

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Feed frenzy

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Watch out!

News

A computer that understands your gestures

News

Dead giveaway

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Technology

Chaos test

News

Technology

Cell block

News

Technology

Page turner

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Bleached brains

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The lore of the jungle

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Dad's to blame

News

Melissa's evil sister

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High ambitions

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Hell and high water

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Opinion

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Tunnel vision on the roads

SMART roads, smart traffic signals and smart cars are on the way. But how beneficial is all this going to be? Having attended a conference in Adelaide last month on what road transport has in store, I wonder if it would not be simpler and more efficient to aim at smarter drivers. Speakers and trade …

Opinion

Lies that bind

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

Name calling

Opinion

The good citizen

Opinion

Hitler's healers

Opinion

The worms that turned

Opinion

What's your opinion?

Opinion

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How to rule the waves

Buckingham House, 1779. Lord Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Charles Middleton, Controller of the Navy, were waiting to see the King. If they could win his support, then the government would surely have to find the huge sums of money they desperately needed. Their grand scheme was costly and extremely risky-but in …

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Family secrets

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The engine of creation

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Quantum foam

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Genetic Revolution and Human Rights by Justine Burley and Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press Human Genetics by BMA, Oxford University Press Art of Genes by Enrico Coen, Oxford University Press Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Birth of a Cell by Henry Harris, Yale University Press Edge of the Sea by Rachel …

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Feedback

BLACKFLIES don't just bite anybody they come across when they feel like a snack. It all depends, it seems, on their potential victim's posture. Reader Maria Bennett recently came across a paper in a back issue of Veterinary Entomology called "Factors influencing nuisance blackfly ( Diptera Simuliidae) activity in the Scottish Highlands". The paper, which …

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