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22 January 2000

Issue 2222

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Something blue . . .

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Monster merger

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Losing our minds
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Something blue . . .

Features
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Kills all known germs

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Energy unlimited

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Quantum clockwork

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Rebels with a cause

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Monster merger

After a stormy courtship lasting two years, Britain's two biggest drugs companies have finally agreed to tie the knot and create the world's largest pharmaceuticals company. Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham plan to merge to form Glaxo SmithKline, a monster with a research and development budget of £2.4 billion. A key reason for the merger …

News

Rattling cybersabres

News

Safe enough to eat?

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Waste of space

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Whose ancestor is he anyway?

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Badger `aunties' more trouble than they're worth

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Black and white

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Halo slipped

News

It's a blast

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Well oiled

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Sticking point

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Technology

Casting the net

News

Hard to contain

News

Freezing clouds threaten record Arctic ozone loss

News

Ancient wisdom

News

Aloft in Antarctica

News

Straight to the heart

News

Flying out of control

News

Captive moons

News

Hold your breath

News

Is Jerry the first of the truly wired humans?

News

You're grounded

News

Technology

Driven to diffraction

News

Technology

A bridge too low

News

Technology

Don't shoot me down

News

Hot shot

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Total control

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Gliding into orbit

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Grab the controls

News

US buoys up ocean watching

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DVD police

News

Tracking the truants

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Seeds of life

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A lesser evil

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Sniffle stopper

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An unhealthy glow

News

New arms

News

Crash and burn

News

Introducing a split personality…

News

Opinion

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Losing our minds

The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) claims good scientists are fleeing Australia in large numbers for better opportunities overseas. And lack of support for science in Australia makes it unlikely they will return. Not only are we losing experienced researchers, but we're not training new ones to replace them. This week's release …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

The future now!

Opinion

Cops and poachers

Opinion

Born in space

Opinion

It's snowing in my heart

Opinion

Features

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Something blue . . .

The artist might have just knocked off for a tea break. The colours in these 2000-year-old Egyptian paint pots, with their careless dribbles of paint, are as fresh and bright as the day they were mixed. Excavated in 1888 from Hawara in Lower Egypt, the pots are now in the British Museum. They all look …

Features

Kills all known germs

Features

Energy unlimited

Features

Quantum clockwork

Features

Rebels with a cause

Features

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Beware! Allergens

LAST YEAR, one of Britain's most promising athletes, the hurdler Ross Baillie, was rushed to hospital in a coma. He had suffered a seizure brought on by an allergic reaction to peanut oil in a sandwich. Baillie never regained consciousness and a few days later he was dead. He was only 21. Up to 1 …

Inside Science

Sweet dreams

Books & Arts

Eaten by greens

Books & Arts

Time after time

Books & Arts

Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to the Present by Paul Josephson,

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Cambridge

Books & Arts

The best of both worlds?

Books & Arts

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Feedback

BACTERIA in sewage and urban run-off sometimes find their way into water supplies. But where do the bacteria come from in the first place? Researchers at Vanderbilt University were worried about the extremely high levels of faecal coliform bacteria in streams in Nashville, Tennessee. Assuming the bacteria came from human waste, they decided to compare …

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