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23 June 2001

Issue 2296

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Round 'em up

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Field of dreams

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Blame it on the moonlight

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Breaking the Banc

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Secrets of an acid head

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

What a handy phone

The idea of a cellphone in a wristwatch has been around for a while, but compressing all the circuitry down to an acceptable size has proved difficult. Now Motorola of Illinois wants to put flexible electronic circuits inside the strap (GB 2355881). This leaves room for bigger batteries in the watch body, extending the phone's …

News

Vending for charity

News

Chewy medicine

News

Chaos in the frame

News

Whack the pony

News

Blast those mines

News

Nice wok

News

Hit and stun

News

Quantum engineering, sea-snail style

News

I'm inflatable, fly me

News

Mixed blood

News

No harm done?

News

Watch out for BSE

News

Arm wrestling

News

Babykillers

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Launch looms for probe that will map big bang's embers

News

Hair today, skin tomorrow

News

Not so jumpy

News

It's chaos out there

News

Reservoir squirrels

News

Bursting with water

News

Off a duck's back

News

Mars on ice

News

Humans

War of words

News

Tonight's the night

News

Humans

Insult to injury

News

Humans

Off with their heads

News

Knocking sexism on the head

News

Lost and found

News

No clone zone

News

Critical failure

News

Careful with that nuke

News

Precision vision

News

Mass destruction

News

Saving planet Earth

News

What a drag

News

On target

News

Come fly with me

News

Close encounters

News

Muscle-building implant offers hope to arthritis sufferers

News

Jaws is ready for your close-up

News

Sweet solution

News

Opinion

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Someone to watch over us

GOVERNMENTS often seem depressingly immune to good ideas that would spur the rest of us into action. So we shouldn't be too surprised to hear about the sad fate of a plan drawn up by a senior British space scientist that could help save lives and money next time a major flood or earthquake or …

Opinion

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Meet NASA's master sniffer

Opinion

Four is not enough

Opinion

Features

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Round 'em up

SURELY it is every bench scientist's dream. A computer-controlled laboratory that can perform a quarter of a million experiments in parallel, at the touch of a button. All you have to do is sit back and let the results roll in. Far-fetched? Not if you ask Gianni Medoro, chief scientist at a small company called …

Features

Field of dreams

Features

Blame it on the moonlight

Features

Breaking the Banc

Features

Secrets of an acid head

Features

More

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The World of Caffeine by Bennett Weinberg and Bonnie Bealer and other books

The World of Caffeine by Bennett Weinberg and Bonnie Bealer, Routledge, £17.99, ISBN 0415927226; White Mischief by Tim Madge, Mainstream, £9.99, ISBN 1840184051; Cocaine by Dominic Streatfeild, Virgin, £20, ISBN 1852279214 CAFFEINE kick-starts the day for billions of people the world over. It is, as Bennett Weinberg and Bonnie Bealer rightly point out, the world's …

Books & Arts

Who's reading what - Matt Ridley

Books & Arts

Who's reading what - Mary Midgeley

Books & Arts

Munch a melon with a mastodon

Books & Arts

A throat in your frog

Books & Arts

Pick a number, any number

Books & Arts

Easy peasy Albert

Books & Arts

Awesome foursome

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

YOU'VE HEARD of skeletons in the cupboard. Well, at the British Museum they are happy to flaunt their skeletons. They reserve the dark recesses of Cupboard 55 for the past's more X-rated artefacts. In their book, Disgraceful Archaeology, archaeologist Paul Bahn and cartoonist Bill Tidy set off on an enlightening tour of the contents of …

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