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25 September 1999

Issue 2205

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Afterburn

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Follow my leader

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Perchance to learn

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Shedding the years

ASTRONOMERS may have to knock over a billion years off the age of the Universe. New observations of Cepheid variable stars in NGC4258, the only galaxy whose distance is accurately known (see New Scientist, 7 August, p 25), nudge the Hubble constant about 15 per cent higher—suggesting that the Universe is expanding more quickly (Nature, …

News

E versus PCBs

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Flipping formats, Batman

News

Hydrotherapy

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Lies, damned lies. . .

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Sickly swine

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Whales off the hook

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Twos and threes

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That was close . . .

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Plankton thrive in the wake of chaos

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Irresistible odour

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Tune in to the past

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Lying in wait

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Space healing

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Hands on

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Never forget

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The right strokes for some folks

News

Alien Earths

News

There's something in the water

News

A dangerous age

News

Tests were skimped on space station parts

News

It's a sex thing

News

Guiding light

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Ace in the hole

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Easy loader

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Going up…

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Farmers in the firing line

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Technology

Invasion of the indies

News

Technology

Folic fix

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Cool running

News

Technology

Bill's teletoys

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Tragedy behind bars

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Night moves

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Time internal

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Technology

Twinkle toes

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Mean machines

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Keep your head down...

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False trails

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Coming a cropper

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Unwanted guest

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Slipping schedules

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Bitten to death

News

Chemical brothers

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Setting sail to keep watch for solar storms

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Opinion

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Reforming tumour cells

LAST MONTH, Monash University's Institute of Reproduction and Development in Melbourne made an uncharacteristic, sweeping statement. It announced that a new oestrogen-like drug "could form the basis for an entirely new therapeutic strategy for prostate cancer". The drug, NV-06, is made by Novogen, an Australian company based in Sydney. And preliminary laboratory tests by the …

Opinion

Humans

Washington diary

Opinion

Shock waves

Opinion

Fonder memories

Opinion

Art of the possible

Opinion

Zzzzzzzz

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Features

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caught on camera

EVERY DAY, every minute, video cameras scan the crowds in a busy shopping centre. But this is no ordinary public surveillance system. The faces of all those passers-by are being converted into digital code and processed by computer. Continuously, instantaneously, the facial code of each stranger is compared with that of several dozen local criminals. …

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Afterburn

Features

Follow my leader

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Life

Perchance to learn

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Bestsellers from Oxford

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Feedback

IT REALLY is time to put nominative determinism to bed. But by way of a fond farewell, here are a few gems left over from last week that Feedback just had to share. We start with space, and last year's botched launch of the Titan 4 rocket. In one of the most expensive cock-ups in …

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