February - 1996 Articles
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Immature eggs seed a revolution
24 February 1996
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Canadian lakes suffer triple blow
24 February 1996
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Sherpas' sweet hearts prepare them for the mountains
24 February 1996
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How blood puts on the brake
24 February 1996
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Robotic insects tread where humans fear to go
24 February 1996
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There's one born every minute …
24 February 1996
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How the brain minds its peas and bees
24 February 1996
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Eye in the sky needs help on the ground
24 February 1996
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Dentists' probing reveals new muscle
24 February 1996
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The subtle side of killer cells
24 February 1996
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Good connections, quantum style
24 February 1996
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Netropolitan
24 February 1996
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Dialysis leaves wine clear of crystals
24 February 1996
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Trick of the light fools forgers
24 February 1996
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Who hears what?
24 February 1996
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Why small black holes are just hippies
24 February 1996
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Pregnancy provides clue to arthritis vaccine
24 February 1996
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Good vibrations help jumping spiders to hunt
24 February 1996
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Fat story gains weight
24 February 1996
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Bone protein reverses gum disease
24 February 1996
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West bows to psychology's cultural revolution
24 February 1996
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New Agers cast a spell on science
24 February 1996
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Good vibrations make violins sing
24 February 1996
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Diamonds are an engineer's best friend
24 February 1996
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'Wrong needles' do addicts more harm than good
24 February 1996
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Stowaway drives fish to brink of extinction
24 February 1996
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Dounreay could push locals over the limit
24 February 1996
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Frustrated researchers diverted to Net's fast lane
24 February 1996
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Poison rains down on rare plants
24 February 1996
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A very comforting illusion
24 February 1996
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Fish drug snagged in politics
24 February 1996
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Fishy finding
24 February 1996
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Hothousing toddlers makes teenagers smarter
24 February 1996
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Seizures may have triggered murders
24 February 1996
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Kids in space
24 February 1996
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Maneless wonder snapped on safari
24 February 1996
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Net goes East
24 February 1996
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Virtual crime
24 February 1996
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Tiny killers bloom in warmer seas
24 February 1996
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Chilled strokes
24 February 1996
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Give me a child before five …
24 February 1996
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Gene saves tobacco from salty death
24 February 1996
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Speechless apes
24 February 1996
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Below the belt
24 February 1996
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Sign up now for the Space Experience
24 February 1996
A revolution in space is imminent
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Papering over the cracks
24 February 1996
Britain is in dire need of a coherent strategy for its woodlands
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Crime on camera
24 February 1996
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Mutant snakes?
24 February 1996
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Road rage
24 February 1996
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Ghosts in the machinery
24 February 1996
Reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
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Light-hearted choice
24 February 1996
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Double click
24 February 1996
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Jewish year
24 February 1996
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Humane control
24 February 1996
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Lifting force
24 February 1996
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Graphic costs
24 February 1996
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Safety warning
24 February 1996
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Feedback
24 February 1996
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Frying problem
24 February 1996
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Cleaning up
24 February 1996
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Breaking the mould
24 February 1996
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Language centres
24 February 1996
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Return to the soft machine
24 February 1996
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Collected works: Rounds up the birds
24 February 1996
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Risky business
24 February 1996
Kenya's vets are gambling on a cheap form of immunisation rather than costly drugs to fight a disease that kills cattle by the million.
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Truly, madly, deeply parallel
24 February 1996
For nearly thirty years, smart researchers have struggled to build cmputers that can do more than one thing at a go. Now, their time may finally have come
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How to measure a million red shifts
24 February 1996
Right across space, galaxies are about to share some of their most important secrets with rival teams of researchers
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Blast them
24 February 1996
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Europe joins the information cul-de-sac
24 February 1996
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Sticky fingers
24 February 1996
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Signed in blood
24 February 1996
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Blades at the cutting edge
24 February 1996
There is a special hell for people who design turbines and pumps. It's called fluid flow. But one man is planning a revolution
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Safe in the digital playpen
24 February 1996
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Who did what
24 February 1996
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Dialogue sans pedagogue
24 February 1996
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Bestsellers from London
24 February 1996
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Women and animals first
24 February 1996
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Rich pickings
24 February 1996
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Exit Gradgrind
24 February 1996
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Caves, man
24 February 1996
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Desparately seeking certainty: Fire in the Mind
24 February 1996
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Despoliers all
24 February 1996
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Perfect prose
24 February 1996
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Triplex spells trouble for DNA
17 February 1996
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Quake warning comes in blue and red
17 February 1996
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Sound breaks the rules on speed
17 February 1996
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The secret heart of a quark
17 February 1996
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How plants guzzle heavy metals
17 February 1996
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Space array could find alien worlds
17 February 1996
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Signs point to the language instinct
17 February 1996
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Squeezed light doubles the quantum leap
17 February 1996
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When fidelity is hard to fathom
17 February 1996
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We can't get no satisfaction …
17 February 1996
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Grease-guzzling bacteria keeps sewers clean
17 February 1996
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Two-in-one vaccine saves Kenyan cattle
17 February 1996
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Lasers help patients get their breath back
17 February 1996
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Netropolitan
17 February 1996
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Inside the San Andreas
17 February 1996
There is no shortage of theories about the workings of California's notorious fault, will one of them make accurate earthquake forecasts a reality – or are they an impossible dream!
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Satellite on a string rides again
17 February 1996
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How to hide your poverty behind Net curtains
17 February 1996
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A strategy for survival?
17 February 1996
The desperate plight of the cheetah has highlighted a fundamental rift between ecologists and geneticists on how to help save endangered species
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Pay attention in the back row …
17 February 1996
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A woman's right to life
17 February 1996
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Poorest women die 'needlessly' in childbirth
17 February 1996
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Spent fuel store may break the law
17 February 1996
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Getting to grips with the perfect chopsticks
17 February 1996
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Uncle Sam's roaring trade in plutonium
17 February 1996
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Snail fans join Newbury bypass protest
17 February 1996
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French smog smothers hundreds
17 February 1996
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Treasures lost in reef madness
17 February 1996
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Long slow march to a stable population
17 February 1996
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Water, water everywhere …
17 February 1996
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Baboon bone marrow fails to take
17 February 1996
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Cold comfort for a broken heart
17 February 1996
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Chimps rise above law of the jungle
17 February 1996
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'Dead fish' lands in hot water
17 February 1996
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Are pylons and radon a lethal cocktail?
17 February 1996
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Cameras that go infrared in the night
17 February 1996
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Versatile coatings
17 February 1996
From cave paintings and other simple beginnings, technology has created a vast range of paints to provide colourful protective coatings and numerous innovative ways of applying them to a host of strange surfaces
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Bodybuilding bashing
17 February 1996
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Return of Dr Strangelove looms large again
17 February 1996
More comment from Westminster
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Troubleshooting by numbers
17 February 1996
Sums up the value of the academic mathematics study group movement
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Morse is dead
17 February 1996
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No exceptions
17 February 1996
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AI doing fine
17 February 1996
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ENIGMA 862: Distances
17 February 1996
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Males only
17 February 1996
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Laboured reading
17 February 1996
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Weapon judgment
17 February 1996
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Alien landing
17 February 1996
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Beginning again
17 February 1996
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Midday madness
17 February 1996
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Feedback
17 February 1996
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Slip-sliding away
17 February 1996
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Collected works: Scans the sites of archaeology
17 February 1996
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Bestsellers from San Francisco
17 February 1996
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Toxic tannery sludge made as safe as houses
17 February 1996
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Rider on the shock wave
17 February 1996
Hypersonic flying saucers driven by microwaves: not science fantasy but the goal of serious researchers in the US
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Don't touch that dial …
17 February 1996
Discovers that radio broadcasts from around the world are just a couple of mouse clicks away
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From here to Milton Keynes
17 February 1996
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Will you pick up the tab?
17 February 1996
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Latin lovers
17 February 1996
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For cosmoholics
17 February 1996
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Flighty writing
17 February 1996
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After the Falklands bonanza
17 February 1996
Rich fishing grounds around the Falklands bring cash rolling in. But when the fish stocks crash, islanders will have to earn their living from the land or face poverty
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We'll be back after the break
17 February 1996
Plugs a golden marketing opportunity
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Buffalo dance
17 February 1996
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Of matter …
17 February 1996
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… And of mind
17 February 1996
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Sperm, sperm, sperm, sperm
17 February 1996
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Our flexible friends
17 February 1996
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Noble observer
17 February 1996
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Antipodean fever
10 February 1996
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Raccoon rage
10 February 1996
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Censor chip law
10 February 1996
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Gene police frozen out
10 February 1996
Last year, MPs urged the government to set up a powerful watchdog to regulate genetic testing. Last month, the government rejected the idea of regulation
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Viral genes give rivals the elbow
10 February 1996
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Wasting protein triggers diabetes in obese
10 February 1996
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Secrets of the great attractor
10 February 1996
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Bright spark
10 February 1996
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Many arms make quick work
10 February 1996
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Riddle of the superstrong insects
10 February 1996
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Trouble on the horizon for evaporating black holes
10 February 1996
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Discerning ravens advertise the best places to eat
10 February 1996
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Life unlimited
10 February 1996
By changing the way they search for bacteria, researchers have discovered thousands of new species. The technique has also turned up entirely new forms of life
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Meteorites – the children of the asteroids
10 February 1996
Next week, a spacecraft should set off on a three-year journey to a lump of flying rock the size of a city. The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), scheduled for launch by NASA on 16 February, will be the first mission to study an asteroid
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The probe that fell to Earth
10 February 1996
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Churning out cheap and colourful camera chips
10 February 1996
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Film that thinks it's a floppy
10 February 1996
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Fine-tuned nerves for sporting aces
10 February 1996
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Can road blocks keep brains safe?
10 February 1996
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Israel's graves a bone of contention
10 February 1996
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USAF must come clean over tests
10 February 1996
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Magnetic flutter gives platinum the big chill
10 February 1996
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Only stern words can save world's fish
10 February 1996
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Send in the nerds
10 February 1996
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Riders on the genetic storm
10 February 1996
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'Metamorphosis' paper greeted with derision
10 February 1996
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US finally honours pledge to take back spent fuel
10 February 1996
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French move to prevent vitamin overdose
10 February 1996
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Shocking memories turn mice into stressed-out survivors
10 February 1996
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Street protest over threat to Brazilian reservations
10 February 1996
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Rock fans go with the flow
10 February 1996
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Rest in peace
10 February 1996
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Get a life
10 February 1996
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South Pole wanders from the straight and narrow
10 February 1996
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Does clowning help the medicine go down?
10 February 1996
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Too many sheep spoil the heather
10 February 1996
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Protecting sheep 'puts birds at risk'
10 February 1996
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Three dimensions
10 February 1996
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European legacy
10 February 1996
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Learned money
10 February 1996
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Expressions of climatic difference
10 February 1996
Some comment from a trip to Pokhara
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Library slashes
10 February 1996
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Tomorrow and tomorrow
10 February 1996
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Language diversity
10 February 1996
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Electrostatic vibes
10 February 1996
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Rutherford V Haber
10 February 1996
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Feedback
10 February 1996
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Bees on the Internet
10 February 1996
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Alcohol-loving flies
10 February 1996
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Plain wrong
10 February 1996
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Desert naivety
10 February 1996
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Natural choice
10 February 1996
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Power power
10 February 1996
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Visitors have their fill of parks
10 February 1996
Explores a claim that wilderness areas are over used
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Time for a change
10 February 1996
One world needs one time and one date
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Bright ideas deserve respect
10 February 1996
People can be very cruel when you're an inventor with a weird-sounding idea
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Bestsellers from Oxford
10 February 1996
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Lens combines the quick and the dim
10 February 1996
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Netropolitan
10 February 1996
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Sticky coat stops crop rot
10 February 1996
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Sheer magnetism does away with stomach surgery
10 February 1996
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Giants in their field
10 February 1996
Come the end of the century, computer hard discs will store 20 times more information. That's all thanks to the magic of giant magnetoresistance
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Dreaming of Avalon
10 February 1996
To 17th-century settlers Newfoundland must have seemed a wild and inhospitable place. But archaeologists have found evidence of thriving communities living in harmony with the local Beothuk.
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On the origins of behaviour
10 February 1996
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Galactic vision
10 February 1996
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Hungry times
10 February 1996
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Physics for Trekkies
10 February 1996
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Doubly Nobel
10 February 1996
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Strong stomach
10 February 1996
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Killer currents
10 February 1996
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Crunchingly big numbers
10 February 1996
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Prophets of doom
10 February 1996
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Collected works: Looks at books for children
10 February 1996
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Amphibiously yours
10 February 1996
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Ancient anemones are historians of the deep
03 February 1996
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Watch out, here comes the Sun: Giant blobs of plasma and high-speed particles thrown out by the Sun can wreak havoc on Earth. Talks to forecasters who warn of stoms in space
03 February 1996
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A kinder antidote to snakebite
03 February 1996
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High fidelity ain't what it used to be
03 February 1996
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All eyes on the Moon
03 February 1996
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Netropolitan
03 February 1996
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Frogs find diversity in adversity
03 February 1996
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Death star spits out great balls of fire
03 February 1996
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Hidden helium heats Jupiter from within
03 February 1996
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Light breaks over chip circuits
03 February 1996
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Sheep farmers sort the rough from the smooth
03 February 1996
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Giant tractors have a featherlight tread
03 February 1996
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Hormone of the night: Melatonin and the Mammalian Pineal Gland by Josephine Arendt, Chapman & Hall, £49.50, iSBN 0 412 53600 5
03 February 1996
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Shining lights
03 February 1996
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Then as now
03 February 1996
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Belief systems
03 February 1996
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Fighting grounds
03 February 1996
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The hole story
03 February 1996
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Even aircraft have feelings
03 February 1996
One day soon, your average jumbo will be able to check its own wings for cracks, carry out repairs and even change shape in mid-flight
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Fossil hunter of the Karoo: South Africa is home to thousands of fossils which tell the story of how reptiles evolved into mammals some 200 million years ago. Profiles the man who devoted his life to collecting them
03 February 1996
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Living factories: Microbes are being converted into plastic production lines, making materials that combine the best of synthetic and natural worlds.
03 February 1996
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How the seabed saves the world
03 February 1996
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And then there was one: In 1993, the government considered and rejected the idea of a single research council. Is it now introducing one by stealth?
03 February 1996
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HIV babies shrug off infection
03 February 1996
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Whistleblower hired to save French cancer charity
03 February 1996
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Panic as grain stocks fall to all time low
03 February 1996
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Open wide, this won't hurt a bit
03 February 1996
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Friendly fat comes under fire in the US
03 February 1996
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Drug hitch sets investors twitching
03 February 1996
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Pounds and pence view of nature provokes uprising
03 February 1996
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Return of the coral eaters
03 February 1996
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In the public eye
03 February 1996
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Rhino poachers exploit conflicts
03 February 1996
Extinction beckons for the great Indian rhinoceros after an upsurge in poaching, particularly in areas where rebels are active
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From alchemy to cordon bleu
03 February 1996
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Antisense storms TB's strongholds
03 February 1996
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Malaria parasites thrive by turning up the thermostat
03 February 1996
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Cheap mimics smash cancer cycle
03 February 1996
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All at sea
03 February 1996
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Private functions
03 February 1996
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Smallpox countdown
03 February 1996
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Injured hedgehogs killed by human kindness
03 February 1996
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Euro-gridlock
03 February 1996
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US vetoes Dounreay
03 February 1996
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Queen evades wildlife laws
03 February 1996
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Dangerous changes
03 February 1996
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Wet, wet, dry
03 February 1996
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Feedback
03 February 1996
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No interference please, we're airborne: More comment from Westminster
03 February 1996
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On another planet
03 February 1996
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Weight for it!
03 February 1996
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The right road
03 February 1996
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Magic & mainstream
03 February 1996
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Making a date
03 February 1996
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Come on you greys
03 February 1996
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Horse trading on Mount Carmel: Examines the claims of Arab Israelis to a slice of a national park
03 February 1996
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What a hash
03 February 1996
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Back to front
03 February 1996
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Ecofarm
03 February 1996
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Getting it nailed
03 February 1996
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Can the mathematicians count on industry?
03 February 1996
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Green kittens
03 February 1996
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What a gas
03 February 1996
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Faceless fathers
03 February 1996
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End the circuses
03 February 1996
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Superior seats
03 February 1996
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Worthy journal
03 February 1996
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Caught in the crossfire: Investigates the impact of civil war on Sudan's wildlife
03 February 1996
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Star manque´
03 February 1996
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Ants, ants, ants
03 February 1996
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Building blocks of the Universe: The complex chemistry of matter
03 February 1996
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Bliss was it in that dawn ...
03 February 1996
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Knowledge in search of a theory: Information Space: A Framework For Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture by Max H. Boisot, Routledge, £25, ISBN 0 415 11490
03 February 1996
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Human Factors in Air Traffic Control by David Hopkin
03 February 1996
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The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky edited by Mark B. Adams (1996)
03 February 1996
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Mental toolkit
03 February 1996
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Putting the pleasure back into sex: Sexual Nature and Sexual Culture edited by Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton, University of Chicago Press, £15.95/$22.95, ISBN 0 226 0010 2
03 February 1996
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More than a test
03 February 1996
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Mutual aid
03 February 1996
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How not to
03 February 1996
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More please
03 February 1996
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African flyers
03 February 1996
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Robosniffers
03 February 1996
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Eastern rising
03 February 1996
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Bestsellers from Oxford
03 February 1996
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Collected works: Considers physicists' greatest hits
03 February 1996
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There may be trouble ahead: Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics by Jed Z. Buchwald, University of Chicago Press, £19.25/$24.95, ISBN 0 226 07890 6
03 February 1996
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Step by step through space
03 February 1996
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Picture this
03 February 1996
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No tricks
03 February 1996