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9 December 2000

Issue 2268

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Liquid assets

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Road rage

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Fooled again

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Move over Casanova

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Voyage of the space veggies

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News

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Priceless junk

The biggest comparison to date of the mouse and human genomes has found that the species share 4 per cent of what is traditionally dubbed "junk DNA", suggesting it has some function. Nearly 97 per cent of the human genome is classed as junk, but Andrew Feinberg of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and …

News

Dams devastate life downstream

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Setting the pace

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Silent speech

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Faces of fear

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Ozone in peril

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The food of love

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Tiny turn-on

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Hot windows

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Astronaut TV

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Copycat killers

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Vaccines they are a-changin'

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Biased ballot led voters astray

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You must remember this

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Rocket fizzles out

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Love-hate relationship

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Technology

Green fingers

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Dirty business

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Next-door neighbours are worlds apart

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Coming unstucco

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Going nuts for a hydrogen-fuelled future

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Polio strikes back

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Hidden agenda

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Look ma, no fillings

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The long and short of the gender gap

News

A wild gene chase

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Drink to think

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Anyone out there?

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It's a bug's life

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On a wing and a jolt

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Chicks and drugs

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Lakes on Mars

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No-clone zone

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Lab rats, rejoice!

News

Sex helps even if you're having a test-tube baby

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Burn, bovine, burn

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Technology

A little lift

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Technology

Pedigree seed

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Technology

Sort it out

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High and dry

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Patently ridiculous

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

WITH government support, says New Scientist, many companies would be prepared to set up distribution networks for vehicle fuels derived from plant residues (23 September, p 3) . I asked energy minister Helen Liddell if the government was likely to back such an idea. Liddell said at the moment the government doesn't provide any specific …

Opinion

Beware researchers who sell

Opinion

Time to tread lightly

Opinion

Up the revolution

Opinion

One small step for lab rats

Opinion

Dishonourable discharge

Opinion

Features

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Liquid assets

Take a pile of Perspex tubes, a few levers and pulleys and the windscreen-wiper pumps from an old wartime bomber. Add a brilliantly ingenious mind, a bucketful of water, and what do you have? A computer that can model the flow of money around the nation. If the government raises taxes or the public goes …

Features

Road rage

Features

Fooled again

Features

Move over Casanova

Features

Voyage of the space veggies

Features

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Turning point

One Good Turn: A natural history of the screwdriver and the screw by Witold Rybczynski, Simon and Schuster, £9.99, ISBN 0743208498 IT'S a rare book that blends scholarship, authority and enthusiasm. Yet Witold Rybczynski manages to do just that in One Good Turn. The subject? The history of the screw and the screwdriver. Rybczynski does …

Books & Arts

Dangerous times

Books & Arts

War drama

Books & Arts

Mind is the matter

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THERE is a story going around that illustrates the way Chinese whispers on the Internet can lead to the formation of urban myths. According to the story, at the end of September, astronomer Larry Webster renovated the Web camera on top of the 150-foot solar tower at Mount Wilson Observatory ( www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm ), north of …

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