June - 1996 Articles
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Patents : Bath time
29 June 1996
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Technology : Digital TV faces fragmented future
29 June 1996
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Science : Take heart from the jelly that wobbles for ever
29 June 1996
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Science : Lake life thrived at the South Pole
29 June 1996
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Science : Volcanoes take their cue from changing climate?
29 June 1996
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Science : Evolution is driven by jerks
29 June 1996
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Science : Exchange rates go with the flow
29 June 1996
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Science : Elephants swam in two by two
29 June 1996
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Science : Mat munchers cleared ancient algae
29 June 1996
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Science : Star caught having a quiet smoke
29 June 1996
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Technology : Ion beams reveal vital surface impressions
29 June 1996
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Patents : Eye, eye
29 June 1996
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Patents : Shock treatment
29 June 1996
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Patents : Glowing diagnosis
29 June 1996
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Patents : Stunning tuna
29 June 1996
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You've all got it wrong
29 June 1996
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Technology : Tiny rubber stamp succeeds where chip makers fail
29 June 1996
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Technology : Early warning for sore udders
29 June 1996
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Technology : Top down building big in Japan
29 June 1996
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Science : Tornado chasers see into the eye of the storm
29 June 1996
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Why even chewing the fat is bad for you
29 June 1996
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X-ray vision provides brain scans for bees
29 June 1996
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Measles trial broke consent rules
29 June 1996
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Sparks fly over `dead wood' logging
29 June 1996
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Sun worshippers baffled by star ratings
29 June 1996
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Crops and cockatoos upset a delicate balance
29 June 1996
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Did ancient Athenians catch Ebola?
29 June 1996
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Shuttle landing goes live on the Net
29 June 1996
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Editorial : No more bloody whaling - FOR YEARS, delegates and scientific advisers to the International Whaling Commission have been less than honest. The stated goal of the IWC is to protect all species of whales from overexploitation. The reasoning is si
29 June 1996
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Crisis looms over whaling ban
29 June 1996
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West won't cough up cash to save vanishing crops
29 June 1996
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Biotech firm `embarrassed' by leaked plant deal
29 June 1996
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Rising yen
29 June 1996
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Frozen fertility
29 June 1996
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Promised land
29 June 1996
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Africa online
29 June 1996
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Space 2000
29 June 1996
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Falling on deaf ears – A new French law will curb the volume of personal stereos to protect
29 June 1996
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Falklands tempted by black gold
29 June 1996
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Particle beams hit the bottle
29 June 1996
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Demob dolphins back in the ranks
29 June 1996
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Patents : Back in the good old days
29 June 1996
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Letters : . . .
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Letters : Timber trade
29 June 1996
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Letters : Words on worms
29 June 1996
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Letters : Safe journeys
29 June 1996
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Forum : Gold from the Gorbals
29 June 1996
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Review : Collected works
29 June 1996
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Letters : . . .
29 June 1996
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Letters : Dirty noise
29 June 1996
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Letters : Methane effect
29 June 1996
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Letters : Snap and shrink
29 June 1996
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Letters : Super gas
29 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
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Letters : Prize pair
29 June 1996
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Letters : Neolithic retsina
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Letters : . . .
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Feedback
29 June 1996
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The Last Word
29 June 1996
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Letters : Borage is best
29 June 1996
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Letters : Heart of the matter
29 June 1996
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Letters : Overdose
29 June 1996
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Letters : Look for the leap
29 June 1996
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Enigma 881 : Up, up and away
29 June 1996
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Review : Head case
29 June 1996
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Review : Dickens of a book
29 June 1996
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Review : A la recherche du temps
29 June 1996
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Review : Engineering a nation
29 June 1996
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Treasure hunters of the deep - Lured by rich rewards, salvage experts are equipping themselves to recover thousands of tonnes of sunken cargo from the ocean floor.
Tara Patel reports29 June 1996
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High & dry in Colombia
29 June 1996
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Invasion of the micromachines
29 June 1996
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Technology : Muscle transplant brings relief from incontinence
29 June 1996
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Review : Gene teach-in
29 June 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from San Francisco
29 June 1996
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Review : A patient approach
29 June 1996
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AustralAsian : Taiwan and Australia strike multimedia deals - Bob Johnstone looks behind the headlines
29 June 1996
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Washington diary : Take control, fix the blame and act promptly -
Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill29 June 1996
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Forum : Picking up the pieces after Ariane
29 June 1996
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Review : Animal magic
29 June 1996
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Review : Beijing revisited
29 June 1996
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Review : Designer death
29 June 1996
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Review : Sex, anybody?
29 June 1996
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Review : Of mayflies and Minds
29 June 1996
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Science : Giant lake lurks beneath Antarctica's ice
22 June 1996
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Science : Earth menaced by superbubble
22 June 1996
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Science : The secret of life in the Dead Sea
22 June 1996
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Science : Broken bones heal better with DNA
22 June 1996
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Science : HIV's handholds lose their grip
22 June 1996
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Genetics watchdog
22 June 1996
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DNA sets you free
22 June 1996
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Voracious climbers
22 June 1996
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Science : Milky Way is sour at heart
22 June 1996
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Science : Enzyme pushes cell's self-destruct button
22 June 1996
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Rights of passage
22 June 1996
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Death of old age - We can live healthy lives well into our hundreds, some researchers claim. But is ageing really a disease that can be cured?
David Concar investigates22 June 1996
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Technology : Two's company three's a sensor
22 June 1996
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Technology : Software trick gets the picture more quickly
22 June 1996
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Technology : The secret life of concrete
22 June 1996
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Science : Why stressful lives begin before birth
22 June 1996
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Technology : Peptides punch it out with superbugs
22 June 1996
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Technology : Waste plastics get sorted
22 June 1996
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Cow power
22 June 1996
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Blood on the water - Britain's refusal to support the lifting of the worldwide ban on commercial whaling could bring back the bad old days of uncontrolled slaughter
22 June 1996
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Antarctica 3, South Africa 1
22 June 1996
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Editorial : No time to play politics - NEXT Thursday, Australians will be presented with a report card on how they are treating their environment. It is likely to make disturbing reading. Leaks from the 600-page report over the past few weeks hint at the
22 June 1996
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Past lead pollution poisons unborn children
22 June 1996
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Dirty ships evade acid rain controls
22 June 1996
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Foresight accused of short sight
22 June 1996
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Narrow escape for Monju reactor
22 June 1996
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Mad monkeys fuel beef crisis
22 June 1996
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Spare parts . . . but not for surgery
22 June 1996
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Neural net stops serious stutterers slipping through
22 June 1996
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US bioterror alert prompts tighter rules
22 June 1996
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US ship comes to the rescue of Russian polar team
22 June 1996
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Social injustice adds to South Asia's hunger
22 June 1996
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MRC looks to City for biotech cash
22 June 1996
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Polluter pays up in Papua
22 June 1996
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Crackdown on Net crooks `a charter for state snoopers'
22 June 1996
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Germany and Japan block nuclear spot checks
22 June 1996
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Done to death
22 June 1996
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Ariane clue
22 June 1996
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Editorial : Storming the City walls - ALTHOUGH we often complain in this column about the lack of funding for science, this week we find the government at least partly making up for its penny-pinching with some strong and welcome language. On Tuesday, the
22 June 1996
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Technology : Computer firms cash in on the classroom
22 June 1996
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Letters : Poised to prosper
22 June 1996
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Review : A salve for psychache
22 June 1996
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Review : UFO at 12 o'clock
22 June 1996
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Review : New for old
22 June 1996
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Review : Summit to read
22 June 1996
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Antipodes: Chilly reception awaits Australia in Geneva
22 June 1996
Ian Lowe finds that commercial interests sway greenhouse stance
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Letters : Space oddity
22 June 1996
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Letters : Hair splitting
22 June 1996
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Letters : Long and short of it
22 June 1996
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Enigma 880 : Let there be light
22 June 1996
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The Last Word
22 June 1996
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Feedback
22 June 1996
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Letters : In praise of Popkiss
22 June 1996
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Letters : Handy robots
22 June 1996
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Letters : Tunnelling event
22 June 1996
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Letters : Remote learning
22 June 1996
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Letters : Close calls
22 June 1996
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Letters : Tragic time-lag
22 June 1996
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Review : It's all Greek to me
22 June 1996
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Review : Does this mean goodbye?
22 June 1996
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Review : Big questions
22 June 1996
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Review : Classic Kurt
22 June 1996
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Review : Herbwise
22 June 1996
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Review : Fab futures
22 June 1996
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Snap happy under the sea - Amazingly detailed images of the seafloor could soon help clean up radioactive waste dumps under water or find the right site for telecoms cables.
Bennett Daviss takes a look at a new kind of sonar22 June 1996
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Technology : Tyre tracks trace runoff water
22 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
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Netropolitan :
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Netropolitan :
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Review : Darwin's third force
22 June 1996
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Review : Wasp alert
22 June 1996
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Review : Money talks
22 June 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford
22 June 1996
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Review : Collected works
22 June 1996
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Forum : Tender loving hunters
22 June 1996
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Forum : How to pack a verbal punch
22 June 1996
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Thistle diary : Making the policeman's lot a happier one - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
22 June 1996
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Have we got problems for you - A change is as good as a rest for an Oxford mathematician who hardly ever gets to see the practical results of his hard labour. So
Jon Chapman leapt at the chance to join a team of other academic escapees for a deli22 June 1996
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Review : Kush-y number
22 June 1996
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Science : Birds and bees fly by numbers
15 June 1996
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Science : Lunar power sends ripples round the Earth
15 June 1996
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Bond telescope fitted with booster
15 June 1996
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Inside story
15 June 1996
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Nuclear test ban
15 June 1996
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Satellite on credit
15 June 1996
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Pill kills roaches
15 June 1996
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Science : A gene that makes males redundant?
15 June 1996
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Science : Ancient organisms adopt steamy lifestyle...
15 June 1996
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Technology : Old 78s, stereo sound and all that jazz
15 June 1996
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Technology : Memories are made of this
15 June 1996
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Technology : Astra's new satellite slot does for the dishes
15 June 1996
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Technology : Marilyn lives...on computer
15 June 1996
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Science : Editing enzyme corrects faulty genes
15 June 1996
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Science : Comet clue to missing neutrinos
15 June 1996
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Science : Slowly does it under the volcano
15 June 1996
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Hip fracture risk
15 June 1996
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Cat flap
15 June 1996
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Farmers clamour for killer virus to be let loose
15 June 1996
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Lax pollution controls mean businesses lose out
15 June 1996
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Editorial : What the world needs now - ALL told, the UN Habitat conference was a bit of a damp squib—few fireworks and only muted international attention. A mere handful of dignitaries showed up, and journalists outnumbered official delegates. Both
15 June 1996
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Countdown to disaster...
15 June 1996
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New Cluster may rise from the ashes
15 June 1996
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The satellite that got away
15 June 1996
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Family videos ease pain of dementia
15 June 1996
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Doctors slam tax on safer haemophilia therapy
15 June 1996
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Irish concern over safety of Sellafield waste tanks
15 June 1996
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Live scrapie test raises CJD hopes
15 June 1996
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Farming comes to town to feed the world
15 June 1996
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Suburban sprawl takes over as giant cities shrink
15 June 1996
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Crowded beds spread childhood plagues
15 June 1996
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Should we learn to love the urban monster?
15 June 1996
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Home from home for Newbury snails
15 June 1996
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Hooked on gadgets - Are bite alarms, sonar scanners and Kevlar rods spoiling the traditional sport of coarse fishing—or making a popular pastime more fun?
15 June 1996
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Editorial : How green turns to gold - "Where there's muck there's money" is a saying guaranteed to cause bewilderment in the US and draw blank looks in Germany and Japan, even when translated into the local languages. But all three nations know exactly ho
15 June 1996
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Science : ...that promises enzyme for a hotter, whiter wash
15 June 1996
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Letters : Local solutions
15 June 1996
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Review : Lyme teaches a bitter lesson
15 June 1996
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Review : Home of the Vogons
15 June 1996
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Review : Hopper's story
15 June 1996
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Review : Parents, dig this
15 June 1996
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Review : Dinosaurs-upon-Tyne
15 June 1996
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Review : Big babies
15 June 1996
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Review : Life and nothing but
15 June 1996
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Letters : Minimal methane
15 June 1996
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Letters : Working by words
15 June 1996
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Letters : Evading expansion
15 June 1996
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Letters : Bargain goes bang
15 June 1996
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Letters : Cementing the facts
15 June 1996
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The Last Word
15 June 1996
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Feedback
15 June 1996
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Letters : Penny pinching
15 June 1996
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Review : Phenomenonological
15 June 1996
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Review : Inside story
15 June 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Washington
15 June 1996
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Seven planets for seven stars - Just as astronomers were losing all hope, new worlds beyond the Solar System have started to turn up, says
Gabrielle Walker 15 June 1996
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Technology : Deformed legs keep tiny robot in step
15 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
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Netropolitan :
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Technology : Smell of success with sewage
15 June 1996
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A life in silicon
15 June 1996
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Review : Buckybook
15 June 1996
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Virtual port of call - To stay at the top, the Port of Singapore is planning the ultimate upgrade. As
Terry Slavin discovers, every last container will reach its destination untouched by human hands15 June 1996
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Cracking the Easter Island code
15 June 1996
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Review : Collected works
15 June 1996
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Forum : A short shelf life
15 June 1996
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Forum : Kuno and the German computer -
Stephen Clackson on one of the world's unsung pioneers of the computer era15 June 1996
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Review : Parallel thoughts of trains
15 June 1996
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Thistle diary : Solvents, suntan and swamps - More comment from Westminster by
Tam Dalyell 15 June 1996
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Antipodes : Chilly reception awaits Australia in Geneva - Ian Lowe finds that commercial interests sway greenhouse stance
15 June 1996
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Review : Inspired verse
15 June 1996
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More CJD
08 June 1996
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Cold cure
08 June 1996
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No such thing as a free launch
08 June 1996
Europe's new satellite launcher is designed to dominate the $3 billion market. But the human and environmental costs to the launch area have yet to be reckoned
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The sperm that fail to get a grip
08 June 1996
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Sociable shrimps join the crowd
08 June 1996
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Strange matter of the early Universe
08 June 1996
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Physics unpicks a sailor's yarn
08 June 1996
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Sick deer
08 June 1996
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Return to the wild
08 June 1996
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Cluster bombs
08 June 1996
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Cape fossil shows its softer side
08 June 1996
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Universities lack the tools of their trade
08 June 1996
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Bright light, black hole
08 June 1996
Is space chock-a-block with mini black holes, enough to bring the Universe to a violent end? Marcus Chown weighs up the evidence
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Chaos pitch
08 June 1996
Why would footballers turn to a branch of mathematics that many scientists find tough to grasp let alone agree about, asks Michael O'Hare
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Gamma rays shake pollutants to pieces
08 June 1996
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How a hairpin could jam up the works
08 June 1996
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Repair kit for damaged nerves
08 June 1996
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Plants point the way to renewable energy
08 June 1996
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Don't write off 'junk' DNA
08 June 1996
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Comets' origins
08 June 1996
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The Research Experience
08 June 1996
IT'S an old joke among visitors to Britain that the only industry that seems to be booming is the heritage industry. There may not be too many shiny new factories around but abandoned quarries and mines or the remains of mills, foundries or potteries have
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False economies breed superbugs
08 June 1996
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Stone Age drinkers had a taste for turpentine
08 June 1996
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Dutch and Australians at loggerheads over forestry
08 June 1996
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Megacities plan spurns science
08 June 1996
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Secrecy for all, urges US academy
08 June 1996
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Winning the war on ozone eaters
08 June 1996
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Rape case ruling undermines faith in juries
08 June 1996
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Do you really need that aspirin?
08 June 1996
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Engineering healthier vegetable oil
08 June 1996
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Puzzling out an uncrackable code
08 June 1996
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Netropolitan
08 June 1996
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Spanish flu's frozen secrets
08 June 1996
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Fears mount for gene scrutiny as watchdog faces axe
08 June 1996
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The sky's the limit for airborne gamblers
08 June 1996
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Be still my beating heart
08 June 1996
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Sick miners pay full price for gold
08 June 1996
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Petawatt laser puts on big squeeze
08 June 1996
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Analysis of variance
08 June 1996
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Bumping junk
08 June 1996
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Naturally deadly
08 June 1996
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The wrong trees
08 June 1996
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Spikes for speed
08 June 1996
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Trap-happy
08 June 1996
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Amazing maize
08 June 1996
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Tomorrow's coal
08 June 1996
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After the fall
08 June 1996
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Hidden emission
08 June 1996
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Fatal fires
08 June 1996
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Feedback
08 June 1996
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Feminist nerds
08 June 1996
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Midge menace
08 June 1996
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Ha ha
08 June 1996
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Swingers
08 June 1996
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A brave new world for family planning
08 June 1996
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Yankee bomb busters
08 June 1996
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Forum
08 June 1996
Building a Babel machine – In a shrinking world we need to create bridges between languages, says George Jenner
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Your mission, should you accept it …
08 June 1996
Philip Wilson reads the small print in a new generation of academic adverts
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Netropolitan
08 June 1996
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Blaze!
08 June 1996
Japan, with its cities of narrow lanes and inaccessible skyscrapers, is building a special weapon in the fight against fire. Peter Hadfield reports
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Can you catch a heart attack?
08 June 1996
Ten years ago, most people scoffed at the idea that a bacterium caused stomach ulcers. But linking chlamydia to coronary heart disease is seen as an even bigger heresy, says Phyllida Brown
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Down, down, deeper and down
08 June 1996
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Bear stalking
08 June 1996
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Crack of doom
08 June 1996
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Do not go gentle
08 June 1996
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The nature of the beast
08 June 1996
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… and Moon shot
08 June 1996
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Space quest …
08 June 1996
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Thistle diary : Picking up the tab for pollution
08 June 1996
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Antipodes
08 June 1996
Green package weeds out the possum – Ian Lowe examines New Zealand plans to tackle exotic pests
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Enigma 878 : A game of cards
08 June 1996
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Bestsellers from London
08 June 1996
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Collected works
08 June 1996
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Up, up and away
08 June 1996
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One of the best
08 June 1996
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Shaky engineering
01 June 1996
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Child smokers
01 June 1996
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In the blood
01 June 1996
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Japan takes its medicine - The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government
01 June 1996
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Science : Cancer's many points of departure
01 June 1996
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Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine
01 June 1996
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Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights
01 June 1996
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Murky waters
01 June 1996
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Hastening death
01 June 1996
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Daytime view of northern lights
01 June 1996
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Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image
01 June 1996
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Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene
01 June 1996
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Science : New state of matter pictured at last
01 June 1996
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Technology : Many hands make the robot work
01 June 1996
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Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture
01 June 1996
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Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves
01 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
01 June 1996
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Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain
01 June 1996
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Science : Early whales had no taste for salt
01 June 1996
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Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.
01 June 1996
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Urban apocalypse postponed?
01 June 1996
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Living sea walls keep floods at bay
01 June 1996
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Hackers play war games with the Pentagon
01 June 1996
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Germans pull plug on Britain's batteries
01 June 1996
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Minamata victims win cash at last
01 June 1996
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Giant leap for Californian frog
01 June 1996
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The iceman cometh from Italy
01 June 1996
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Icelanders argue over their ancestors
01 June 1996
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`Piracy' law leaves Brazil open to exploitation
01 June 1996
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Fickle greens undermine consumer power
01 June 1996
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The fall and fall of British research funding
01 June 1996
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Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis
01 June 1996
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Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon's ancient tribes
01 June 1996
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Science : Schrödinger's cation leaps into reality
01 June 1996
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Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies
01 June 1996
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Editorial : Think global, act local - WHETHER you live in London, Tokyo or New York, it's hard to find anyone who will admit that they enjoy living in a big city. Even in the 18th century, when Samuel Johnson defended the pleasures of urban living with th
01 June 1996
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Netropolitan :
01 June 1996
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Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft
01 June 1996
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Review : A crisis of credibility
01 June 1996
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Forum : Many happy recoveries
01 June 1996
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Forum : Digging away at the foundations -
Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds01 June 1996
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Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
01 June 1996
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Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground - Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia's razor gang
01 June 1996
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Enigma 877 : Fantastic football
01 June 1996
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Letters : Heavy duty
01 June 1996
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Letters : Up in smoke
01 June 1996
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Letters : Sperm and diet
01 June 1996
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Letters : Monkey madness
01 June 1996
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Letters : . . .
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Letters : . . .
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Feedback
01 June 1996
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Letters : Centre that glitters
01 June 1996
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Letters : Magnificent machine
01 June 1996
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Letters : Now you see it...
01 June 1996
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Review : Collected works
01 June 1996
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Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney
01 June 1996
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Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse
01 June 1996
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Noises on
01 June 1996
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Stranger in a strange land
01 June 1996
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Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat
01 June 1996
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Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'
01 June 1996
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Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed
01 June 1996
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The zero option
01 June 1996
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Review : United they stood . . .
01 June 1996
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Review : Building bridges
01 June 1996
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Review : Crystal-ball gazing
01 June 1996
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Review : Dreams are made of this
01 June 1996
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Review : Fossils that New York forgot
01 June 1996
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Review : Sticks like glue
01 June 1996
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Review : Liberating ideas
01 June 1996
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Review : Heavy conversations
01 June 1996
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Review : Doctor Death
01 June 1996
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The Last Word
01 June 1996