October - 1995 Articles
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Pill warning leaves doctors in the dark
28 October 1995
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Treating the parts that drugs cannot reach
28 October 1995
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Long in the tooth
28 October 1995
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Commons reprieve
28 October 1995
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On the record
28 October 1995
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The magnetism of spirals
28 October 1995
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Dung detectives
28 October 1995
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Deadly virus
28 October 1995
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French tests pass
28 October 1995
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Introducing … the ozone-friendly bacteria
28 October 1995
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Banking on a secure Net link
28 October 1995
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These boots were made for thinking
28 October 1995
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Green rockets blast off back to the steam age
28 October 1995
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Pick-your-own antibodies
28 October 1995
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It's a gas
28 October 1995
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Invasion of the shapechangers
28 October 1995
Knock out a crucial gene and mice grow bodies that went out of fashion in the age of the dinosaurs; wonders if it's really possible to throw evolution into reverse
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On the spot report from Jupiter's moon
28 October 1995
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Hanging on for sound and vision
28 October 1995
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Journey to the centre of your pain
28 October 1995
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Hormone fraud
28 October 1995
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Every child a perfect child?
28 October 1995
Doctors can now screen embryos for genes that increase the risk of developing cancer in later life. The question is whether they should
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West Coast collision over clean cars
28 October 1995
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Seahorses die for traditional cures
28 October 1995
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Court challenge over Clipper chip
28 October 1995
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Computer cops put the boot disc in
28 October 1995
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Privacy at risk as Net goes commercial
28 October 1995
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The right to know
28 October 1995
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Nobody's perfect
28 October 1995
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Take a dose of altruism and pass it on
28 October 1995
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Three time zones and you're out
28 October 1995
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Green groups fall foul of Russian security police
28 October 1995
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Working genes step into the spotlight
28 October 1995
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Hyperactive particles may hail from radio galaxies
28 October 1995
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HIV sets trap for immune cells
28 October 1995
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Low life would be at home on Mars
28 October 1995
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Beetles show why it pays to have sex
28 October 1995
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'Let me through, I'm a scientist'
28 October 1995
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Solidarity sways Europe over space station
28 October 1995
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'We were wrong' admits Dounreay
28 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Conservative Party
28 October 1995
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This week's question
28 October 1995
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Nothing is nothing
28 October 1995
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Prozac in the clubs
28 October 1995
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Patently misguided
28 October 1995
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Facts of commerce
28 October 1995
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Tourists welcome
28 October 1995
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Tennis cycles
28 October 1995
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Squally sex
28 October 1995
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Arsenic in China
28 October 1995
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Mud in our eyes
28 October 1995
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Ouch!
28 October 1995
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Questions and answers
28 October 1995
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Cold store
28 October 1995
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Ram odd
28 October 1995
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Sorry, wrong sun
28 October 1995
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Inferior women
28 October 1995
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Time to hibernate
28 October 1995
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Letters to the Editor
28 October 1995
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Feedback
28 October 1995
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Some like it hot
28 October 1995
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Heavenly bodies
28 October 1995
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Bestsellers from Oxford
28 October 1995
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Collected works
28 October 1995
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Sorry, it shouldn't happen again …
28 October 1995
The heady heights of Capitol Hill
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Enigma 846: Winners on the left
28 October 1995
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Electricity shock
28 October 1995
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Little Gems
28 October 1995
Diamonds designed to order could inspire the next generation of particle detectors and laptop computers
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Hard maths? No problem
28 October 1995
How do you work out the answers to questions that would take a desktop computer 15 million years to solve
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Netropolitan
28 October 1995
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All fall down
28 October 1995
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The right time
28 October 1995
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JP2
28 October 1995
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Ideal orbs
28 October 1995
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Starry voices
28 October 1995
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When killing things is a livelihood
28 October 1995
Hunters sometimes have a case
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Is your publication really necessary?
28 October 1995
Think twice before sending off that research paper
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Mind works
28 October 1995
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Time's up
28 October 1995
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Same old stuff
28 October 1995
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Feeling is seeing
28 October 1995
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Human patents
21 October 1995
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Can electrons ride an optical boom?
21 October 1995
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Tug-of-war that can wreck a fetus
21 October 1995
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It's the early bird that fits the bill
21 October 1995
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Letting the quantum cat out of the bag
21 October 1995
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When a woman becomes like a man
21 October 1995
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Grafted testicles spurn rejection
21 October 1995
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Trouble at the edge of time
21 October 1995
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Are Saturn's rings hiding mystery moons?
21 October 1995
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Can double dish break Sky monopoly?
21 October 1995
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Immune system oils the wheels of industry
21 October 1995
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This vaccine will self-destruct …
21 October 1995
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Netropolitan
21 October 1995
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Polymer shapes up to banish cholesterol
21 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Physics
21 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Chemistry
21 October 1995
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Tiny glass laser sheds more light than heat
21 October 1995
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Lungfuls of helium put doctors in the picture
21 October 1995
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Hot treatment for period pain
21 October 1995
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Satellite success
21 October 1995
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Seeing the light
21 October 1995
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Riders on the storm
21 October 1995
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US hawks rage over 'anti-nuke bias'
21 October 1995
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'Herd instinct' drove biotech firms to the brink
21 October 1995
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Axe sharpened for climate research
21 October 1995
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Space station? Non merci
21 October 1995
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The end of TV as we know it
21 October 1995
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France barred inspectors from nuclear test sites
21 October 1995
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Bad science breeds contempt
21 October 1995
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A nobler future
21 October 1995
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Ozone prophets reach rarefied heights
21 October 1995
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Boudicca rampaged through the streets of south London
21 October 1995
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Galileo glitch
21 October 1995
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Hot flights
21 October 1995
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Telltale coral
21 October 1995
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Welcome to Cell Block Heroin
21 October 1995
Compulsory drug screening in Britain's jails could backfire on government attempts to control the spread of HIV. It may also drive cannabis users onto the hard stuff
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Was Shakespeare the man behind the mask?
21 October 1995
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Strain of HIV crucial to women's risk of infection
21 October 1995
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From the tau of physics …
21 October 1995
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… to a disarming man of peace
21 October 1995
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Killer rabbit virus on the loose
21 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Nobel prizes
21 October 1995
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This week's question
21 October 1995
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Einstein in error
21 October 1995
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Ban them all
21 October 1995
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Silly sirens
21 October 1995
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Unwise implants?
21 October 1995
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Down the valley, something stirs
21 October 1995
More comment from Westminster
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Millennial winners
21 October 1995
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ENIGMA No.845
21 October 1995
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Darwin's islands
21 October 1995
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Rooting for Rhol
21 October 1995
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Dirt and diesel
21 October 1995
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Questions and answers
21 October 1995
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Light flight 1 & 2
21 October 1995
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Stirring Stuff
21 October 1995
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Dream teams
21 October 1995
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Letters to the Editor
21 October 1995
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Feedback
21 October 1995
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Play in the traffic
21 October 1995
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Pioneer pigeons
21 October 1995
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Poaching peril
21 October 1995
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Genes on stage
21 October 1995
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Across the Universe
21 October 1995
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Beware experts carrying stigmas
21 October 1995
It is time technology drew the public into some hard decision making
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Dealing with the exotic
21 October 1995
One rule for genes and another for viruses
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Elemental, my dear Watson: The Periodic Kingdom
21 October 1995
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The Milky Way lifts its veil
21 October 1995
Beyond our Galaxy's dense lanes of dust lie undiscovered worlds filled with exciting potential
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Artemis and the electronauts
21 October 1995
More spacecraft are being fitted with electric thrusters to control their trajectories in space; looks at what makes electric propulsion so attractive
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Music for the senses
21 October 1995
Sensor Chairs and Rhythm Trees may seduce us into making music again rather than just listening to it
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Seabed scanner pierces underwater gloom
21 October 1995
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Poisoned waters
21 October 1995
The Aral Sea has but vanished, but its legacy is destroying the health of more than a million people
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The shape of things to come?
21 October 1995
In search of a new vision for the Labour Party
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All there is to know
21 October 1995
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Turned out nice
21 October 1995
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Bestsellers from San Francisco
21 October 1995
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Collected works
21 October 1995
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Inside the bomb factory: The Good Servant
21 October 1995
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Heavy stuff, gravity
21 October 1995
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Of mice and men
21 October 1995
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Crime and punishment: Mind to Crime
21 October 1995
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Classic physics
21 October 1995
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Natural doings
21 October 1995
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It takes two to tangle 'mad cow' protein
14 October 1995
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What colour is an elephant
14 October 1995
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Clue in hunt for heart transplant killer
14 October 1995
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Smokestacks cool northern oceans
14 October 1995
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Credit rivals move in on Net encryption
14 October 1995
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All quiet on the music front
14 October 1995
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They do it with mirrors
14 October 1995
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'Hot-cross bunodon' dined on shellfish
14 October 1995
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Stargazers amazed by 'crazy' planet
14 October 1995
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Going up … and sideways
14 October 1995
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Chaos in Eden
14 October 1995
The balance of nature is an outdated notion, and ecologists will not be able to tackle the real problems until they admit it
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One hundred and one dimensions
14 October 1995
From planning a factory's output to plotting the planets' motion, the mathematics of hyperspace pays dividends
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Netropolitan – royalties
14 October 1995
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Netropolitan – where to find us
14 October 1995
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Fly me to the moon …
14 October 1995
The end of the Cold War has inspired a new wave of enthusiasm for space travel; interview with three of the most ambitious pioneers
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Test tube antibody could save rhesus babies
14 October 1995
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Electric cars may run on diesel
14 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Microsoft
14 October 1995
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Rah-rah-ouch
14 October 1995
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Brain deaths
14 October 1995
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Stuck on the road to nowhere
14 October 1995
Thousands of thirtysomething scientists are being thrown on the scrapheap, and a plan to improve their lot is being written off as inadequate
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From humble fruit flies to glorious Nobels …
14 October 1995
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Dieting makes you forget
14 October 1995
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GONG tunes in to the Sun's vibes
14 October 1995
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Turning a penny from telescopes
14 October 1995
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Crisis over 'Chernobyl' on the Danube
14 October 1995
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Radiation doctors abused trust in the name of science
14 October 1995
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A woman's place is in the spacecraft
14 October 1995
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Are nuclear flasks safe to fly?
14 October 1995
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What a waste …
14 October 1995
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The courage to ask hard questions
14 October 1995
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Royal fungus saved
14 October 1995
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The oldest swinger in town
14 October 1995
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Not so super
14 October 1995
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War fever
14 October 1995
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Parisians pale but stay warm
14 October 1995
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When sage may be the wisest remedy
14 October 1995
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Virus blamed on invading squirrels
14 October 1995
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Luis and Marilyn run amok round Carribbean coastlines
14 October 1995
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How to build a metaverse
14 October 1995
On the Net, flat images are giving way to solid shapes you can zoom round and dive under; witnesses the birth of a virtual world
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Ecstacy and Prozac
14 October 1995
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Letters to the Editor
14 October 1995
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Oh yeah?
14 October 1995
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Wrong Israel
14 October 1995
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Feedback
14 October 1995
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Carping over cod
14 October 1995
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Giant waves and wandering fish
14 October 1995
More Westminster comment
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String Theory
14 October 1995
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Shockingly direct
14 October 1995
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Locking out HIV
14 October 1995
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Questions and answers
14 October 1995
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Pole poll
14 October 1995
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This week's questions
14 October 1995
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Insects carry HIV
14 October 1995
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Market success?
14 October 1995
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Worms are boring
14 October 1995
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Face up to malaria
14 October 1995
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Chemical feminism?
14 October 1995
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Welsh on the Web
14 October 1995
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Relatively anon'
14 October 1995
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Lucky day
14 October 1995
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SF facts
14 October 1995
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Promised lands
14 October 1995
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So you want to be a scientist?: Managing Scientists
14 October 1995
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Count those stripes
14 October 1995
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Bestsellers from Oxford
14 October 1995
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Collected works
14 October 1995
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Dwelling on living
14 October 1995
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Powerful potions and humble hedgerows
14 October 1995
We are in danger of losing life-saving plants and folk remedies
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Time to join the grownups
14 October 1995
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Barnard the star
14 October 1995
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Simple when you know how
14 October 1995
Frontiers of Complexity
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Paper masters
14 October 1995
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Weather woes
14 October 1995
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Ghostly tales
14 October 1995
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Report hits pay dirt
14 October 1995
How much scientists are worth
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ENIGMA No. 844
14 October 1995
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On the origin of theses
14 October 1995
In search of intellectual grandparents
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Blast off
14 October 1995
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Watching for the sound of tumours
07 October 1995
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Flying detectives help farmers save the land
07 October 1995
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Striking back at lightning
07 October 1995
For years, people tried all sorts of tricks to divert deadly lightning; investigates the latest attempts to play God
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The shock of the real
07 October 1995
Africa's individual voices overturn modern myths
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Star counts reveal our place in space
07 October 1995
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall
07 October 1995
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Speedy squid stand in for fish in southern seas
07 October 1995
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Tornado watchers get a flash of inspiration
07 October 1995
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The boy whose blood has no father
07 October 1995
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Tired cells mean ageing bodies
07 October 1995
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Electrodes spark death of skin cancers
07 October 1995
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Choice would be a fine thing
07 October 1995
An increasingly urban lifestyle is encouraging women to abandon breast-feeding
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By the light of the sun
07 October 1995
DIY electricity is transforming everyday life in Kenya's schools and villages
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Turn your radio on
07 October 1995
Broadcasters know radio is a force to be reckoned with, and so do their listeners
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A local dish
07 October 1995
Not everyone can take basic technologies and use them to trigger revolutions. But a few can and do. In the opening section of this special report, we talk to individuals and groups who have made waves. We start with the engineer behind a growing market fo
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Fly me cheaply to the Moon
07 October 1995
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Heavy water helps vaccines keep cool
07 October 1995
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Now, here's the news-on-demand
07 October 1995
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In the heat of the day …
07 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Net Movies
07 October 1995
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Netropolitan – Where to find us
07 October 1995
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Urban values
07 October 1995
Lives have changed more in a generation than for centuries. Babies born today are more likely to survive than their parents were. Elections are breaking out all over. Since 1990 alone, there have been 27, most of them for the first time. But all is not we
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Lab splits up
07 October 1995
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Costs soar as Ariane V stays grounded
07 October 1995
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… while contraceptive virus is pitched at rabbit plague
07 October 1995
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Shoddy research could shape environmental policy
07 October 1995
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World's frogs may croak without IVF …
07 October 1995
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Killer cotton stalks pests
07 October 1995
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'Sleep disorder' led to epilepsy gene
07 October 1995
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Birth of a Planet
07 October 1995
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Leak links power lines to cancer
07 October 1995
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Earth's last wilderness goes online
07 October 1995
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Scrutiny 2: the nightmare returns
07 October 1995
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Minor genome secrets opened up to all
07 October 1995
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An inspector calls
07 October 1995
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Postdoc blues
07 October 1995
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In a state of denial
07 October 1995
Thousands of Americans will die of AIDS because politicans refuse to believe scientists who say needle exchanges make good sense
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Imported TB
07 October 1995
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Birch therapy
07 October 1995
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Iridescent fossils rise up from volcano
07 October 1995
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Ozone spy
07 October 1995
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Warning over ambiguous Alzheimer's test
07 October 1995
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Italy could shoot down space plan
07 October 1995
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Surprise find offers hope for breast cancer
07 October 1995
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Warm, flat beer?
07 October 1995
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Codebreakers' heartaches
07 October 1995
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Taking stock of the old enemy
07 October 1995
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Space junk
07 October 1995
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It's a cow of a life
07 October 1995
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Keep it up
07 October 1995
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Combination man
07 October 1995
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Urban apocalypse
07 October 1995
Are we helping parasites to prosper
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Better bogs
07 October 1995
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The ivory issue
07 October 1995
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Questions and answers
07 October 1995
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This week's question
07 October 1995
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Steady stream
07 October 1995
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Revealing drought
07 October 1995
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Wait on water
07 October 1995
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Horse handedness
07 October 1995
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The marrying kind
07 October 1995
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Letters – corrections
07 October 1995
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Letters to the Editor
07 October 1995
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Feedback
07 October 1995
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Take the pils
07 October 1995
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Electric hazards
07 October 1995
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Witchcraft and tourism
07 October 1995
Read all about it in Africa's newspapers
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The struggle continues
07 October 1995
From primary school on, the right to an education is hard won. Despite recent improvements, two-thirds of girls in Africa still do not get a secondary education and overall, fewer students attend school than 10 years ago, because more and more parents are
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Buyer's market
07 October 1995
The North-South divide is still stifling homegrown R&D
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In pursuit of excellence
07 October 1995
Research can seem like a luxury when most children cannot finish school and the national debt is in billions. But scientists are pushing R&D up the agenda, whether their governments support them or not. In this section, some of them tell us what their
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Which doctor?
07 October 1995
If you are poor or mentally ill, you can forget about modern medicine
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A farm in the city
07 October 1995
When recession bites, a little land makes all the difference
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First and last
07 October 1995
The cash economy is closing in on the Kalahari Bushmen
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The gender trap
07 October 1995
Even a high achiever must pay the price of being a woman
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Finding a voice
07 October 1995
Schools are throwing out the old colonial languages
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Heat of invention
07 October 1995
How a village of blacksmiths turned make-do-and-mend into an art
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The obstacle course
07 October 1995
What price a PhD for a boy from the bundu?
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Dreaming spires
07 October 1995
A fragile optimism prevails as Kampala's academics get back to work
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ENIGMA No. 843
07 October 1995
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Can a machine see red? Considers the limits of the artificial mind
07 October 1995
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Track record
07 October 1995
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Drugs check
07 October 1995
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Super humans
07 October 1995
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Bestsellers from London
07 October 1995
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Collected works
07 October 1995
Pursues the Net across the printed page
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A question of relevance
07 October 1995
Basic research and good management could transform African economies
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Cry electronic freedom
07 October 1995
Will the state censors lose their grip as the information revolution takes hold, asks Victor Epie'Ngome
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Two pints and a packet of caterpillars
07 October 1995