April - 1999 Articles
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Fungus farmers
24 April 1999
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Windows on privacy
24 April 1999
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There's a storm brewing…
24 April 1999
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Essence of chocolate
24 April 1999
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Life and death vest
24 April 1999
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For your eyes only
24 April 1999
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Raring to go
24 April 1999
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Smooth operator
24 April 1999
Why the person you called sounds unfeasibly human
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Shrink to fit
24 April 1999
A blast of energy brings the world back into focus
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Flight of the soya bean
24 April 1999
Zero gravity is a plus when it comes to altering genes
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NASA's finest get wired for the night
24 April 1999
To give astronauts a good night's sleep, the best option is to cover them with electrodes, according to a study of orbital insomnia
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Alien invaders
24 April 1999
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Lost for words
24 April 1999
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X-ray delay?
24 April 1999
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The good news…
24 April 1999
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…and the bad
24 April 1999
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Paradox lost
24 April 1999
Could time warps explain quantum weirdness?
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Namibian bugs crash through the size barrier
24 April 1999
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Bat alert
24 April 1999
Jangling ID tags warn prey that there's a hunter on their tail
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Neutron star is caught blowing bubbles
24 April 1999
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Short, sharp shocks build micromachines
24 April 1999
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Junk food
24 April 1999
When salmon gorge on sprats, their offspring sicken and die
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A better way to leave this world
24 April 1999
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Lights, sound, action!
24 April 1999
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Seeing is believing
24 April 1999
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All fired up
24 April 1999
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Powered up
24 April 1999
Could satellites plug into energy from the ground?
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Weather eyes
24 April 1999
Meet the chip that's every forecaster's dream
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Explosive deflection
24 April 1999
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Cool sounds
24 April 1999
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Watch my lips
24 April 1999
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On the right track
24 April 1999
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In a jam
24 April 1999
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Rice race
24 April 1999
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Now you see it . . .
24 April 1999
It's official: some of Sellafield's plutonium is missing
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Hunting the carriers
24 April 1999
How many species already harbour Malaysia's lethal virus?
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Coral crumbles
24 April 1999
British reefs have failed to recover following El Niño
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That's entertainment!
24 April 1999
Why shouldn't science festivals be more like circuses?
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The future is another country
24 April 1999
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Blame your mother…
24 April 1999
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Crash course
24 April 1999
A software copilot can rapidly learn to fly a damaged plane
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Martian time
24 April 1999
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Clean burn
24 April 1999
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Alien planets
24 April 1999
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The last word
24 April 1999
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Bits in tandem
24 April 1999
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Bits aplenty
24 April 1999
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Tubes are booked
24 April 1999
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Sitting comfortably?
24 April 1999
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Minor pang
24 April 1999
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Melissa madness
24 April 1999
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24 April 1999
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24 April 1999
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Trashing teachers
24 April 1999
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Virtual thuggery
24 April 1999
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Keep it yourselves
24 April 1999
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Veterinary practices make perfect
24 April 1999
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Feedback
24 April 1999
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Stirling Pizza
24 April 1999
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Mobile revenge
24 April 1999
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Naked truth
24 April 1999
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24 April 1999
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Shades of meaning
24 April 1999
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24 April 1999
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Should be dead?
24 April 1999
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Road monsters
24 April 1999
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Performing eggs
24 April 1999
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The dolphin way
24 April 1999
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Count me in
24 April 1999
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Hold on tight
24 April 1999
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Get A life
24 April 1999
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Supercell
24 April 1999
Endless supplies of living tissue, grown from a single cell and ready to repair damage anywhere in the body-Philip Cohen asks how close the dream is to reality
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One in the eye for fish's victims
24 April 1999
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Holes together
24 April 1999
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Twisted foe
24 April 1999
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Sex pests
24 April 1999
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Stealing beauty
24 April 1999
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Firm forecast
24 April 1999
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Aussie roobots kick goals in Japan
24 April 1999
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Grounds for war
24 April 1999
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Going nowhere fast
24 April 1999
It's time we got all the cars off the roads, says Michael Le Page
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Signs of the times
24 April 1999
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24 April 1999
Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
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To the body shop
24 April 1999
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A passionate man
24 April 1999
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from San Franscisco
24 April 1999
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The spinners
24 April 1999
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Go for it
17 April 1999
If you want to win at darts, aim for the bull's-eye
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Activists up the ante
17 April 1999
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No reprieve for America's antibody mice
17 April 1999
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Take heart
17 April 1999
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It's a deal
17 April 1999
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Unpalatable truths
17 April 1999
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Crime and punishment
17 April 1999
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Family way
17 April 1999
A father's genes shape his daughter's maternal instincts
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A robot in the right vein
17 April 1999
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Inflammation may cause cerebral palsy
17 April 1999
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Hunger zones
17 April 1999
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Silicon needles won't hurt a bit
17 April 1999
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Friend or foe?
17 April 1999
A simple bar code could stop Internet pirates in their tracks
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Fragrant threat
17 April 1999
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Gone with the wind
17 April 1999
Will buffer zones stop genes spreading to nearby crops?
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No entry
17 April 1999
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I know you're looking…
17 April 1999
Does this man have eyes in the back of his head?
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Seeing the light
17 April 1999
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Burning tarmac
17 April 1999
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Netman cometh
17 April 1999
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Dangerous din
17 April 1999
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Supervaccine
17 April 1999
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Moaning mould
17 April 1999
How can you tell whether corn is fungus-ridden? Try listening
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Vive la difference
17 April 1999
A unique alliance is racing to map genetic variability
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Bottled up
17 April 1999
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Going loopy
17 April 1999
Hula-hoops could be the next craze among geneticists
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Blind bombing
17 April 1999
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Phone-free zone
17 April 1999
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Sky-high gambling
17 April 1999
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Permanent mark
17 April 1999
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Back to basics
17 April 1999
An urchin's return to its roots throws light on early development
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Can regular sex ward off colds and flu?
17 April 1999
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Heavenly twins
17 April 1999
The orbiting stars in Alpha Centauri are two of a kind after all
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Advisers axed
17 April 1999
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Phone probe
17 April 1999
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New flu
17 April 1999
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The big thaw
17 April 1999
When the world warms, no ice sheet is safe
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Hot property
17 April 1999
It pays to understand the real currency of our times
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The last word
17 April 1999
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Antarctic witness
17 April 1999
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Mission impossible
17 April 1999
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Having a ball
17 April 1999
Sidney Perkowitz catches Marie Curie dancing with Robert Oppenheimer
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Spit 'n' polish
17 April 1999
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Beware flying mud!
17 April 1999
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Wasted potential
17 April 1999
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17 April 1999
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Emotional appeal
17 April 1999
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Not our problem
17 April 1999
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Sabotage threat delays trials
17 April 1999
Ian Lowe explores the gene modification issue in New Zealand
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17 April 1999
More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Seeing isn't believing
17 April 1999
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Mind blowing
17 April 1999
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Hacker's challenge
17 April 1999
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Mobile fears
17 April 1999
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End note
17 April 1999
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Feedback
17 April 1999
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Tame brain
17 April 1999
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Carson's comeback
17 April 1999
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I forget
17 April 1999
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Far, far away
17 April 1999
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Subzero
17 April 1999
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Meteorite heaven
17 April 1999
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Drink up
17 April 1999
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Escape artists
17 April 1999
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Saving our bacon
17 April 1999
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Bumper blooms left high and dry
17 April 1999
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Kingdom of the krill
17 April 1999
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Great rivers of ice!
17 April 1999
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Cut off their tails
17 April 1999
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Quantum tools
17 April 1999
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Novel nomad
17 April 1999
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from Oxford
17 April 1999
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That's my idea
17 April 1999
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Trivia, truth and tasty tidbits
17 April 1999
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Antarctic landscape is testbed for Mars
17 April 1999
Why wait for the next interplanetary ship when you can reach the Red Planet by just heading south?
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The Emperor's Eggs
17 April 1999
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When too much sex is exhausting
10 April 1999
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Megablasts
10 April 1999
Astronomers have found bigger bangs than they bargained for
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Yawning shows we're just big babies
10 April 1999
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Seedy world
10 April 1999
Sexual scandal is rife in the grain store
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Tadpole genes show how the blood flows
10 April 1999
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Burning rubber
10 April 1999
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Pie in the sky
10 April 1999
A ballistic missile defence system is still just a dream
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Poles apart
10 April 1999
A power struggle underlies Earth's wandering magnetic field
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Spanner in the works
10 April 1999
A lack of vital computer data means cars can't be repaired
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Get your head round this...
10 April 1999
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Tainted catch
10 April 1999
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Final stand
10 April 1999
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You can't miss it . . .
10 April 1999
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Tiny fakes
10 April 1999
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Tight squeeze
10 April 1999
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Nature's deep-sea divers aren't even out of breath
10 April 1999
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Taking history forward
10 April 1999
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All clear
10 April 1999
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Willing or not
10 April 1999
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Cull cutback
10 April 1999
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Melissa's mayhem
10 April 1999
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Dial F for Fear
10 April 1999
Never have so many people worried so much about so little
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A clean, green power machine
10 April 1999
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No runway, no problem
10 April 1999
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Robotic buddies
10 April 1999
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Films without frontiers
10 April 1999
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Heart-stopping
10 April 1999
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Breed bunnies and feed the world
10 April 1999
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Bubble bubble…
10 April 1999
A biotech firm's plan to exploit hot springs is in trouble
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One cell heals all
10 April 1999
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Clocking on
10 April 1999
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Seeing the light
10 April 1999
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Read my lips
10 April 1999
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Back to Chernobyl
10 April 1999
Plastic sheets and cannabis bring hope for barren fields
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Japan's junkyard spacecraft lifts off
10 April 1999
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Heat, test and serve
10 April 1999
Kitchen gadget leaves no hiding place for deadly food bugs
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Victims of vaccines
10 April 1999
An unlicensed ingredient may have made Gulf veterans ill
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The intelligent antenna
10 April 1999
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Hang on to your hat
10 April 1999
Barry Fox goes in search of some millennial excitement
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from Amsterdam
10 April 1999
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Fame is just around the corner
10 April 1999
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10 April 1999
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Feedback
10 April 1999
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Early warning
10 April 1999
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Back to the woods
10 April 1999
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In the grip of memes
10 April 1999
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Pirates ahoy
10 April 1999
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Smog extractors
10 April 1999
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Safe Sinclair
10 April 1999
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Fast work
10 April 1999
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Library lottery
10 April 1999
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Maximum security
10 April 1999
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Mobile model
10 April 1999
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Siren call
10 April 1999
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The last word
10 April 1999
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10 April 1999
Thistle diary More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Land of nod
10 April 1999
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10 April 1999
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The strain is in the brain
10 April 1999
Too much typing can leave you in agony. But rather than damaged muscles or tendons being to blame for RSI, says Bob Holmes, things might be going wrong in the brain
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If you're still worried...
10 April 1999
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Explaining the inexplicable
10 April 1999
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It's a game of numbers
10 April 1999
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Masses and molasses
10 April 1999
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Pocket rocket
10 April 1999
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It was the best of times . . .
10 April 1999
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Air Apparent by Mark Monmonier
10 April 1999
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The moral maze
10 April 1999
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The point of physics
10 April 1999
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Daily cuppa lands us in hot water
10 April 1999
Ian Lowe discovers the value of good design
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Dyson on Darwin
10 April 1999
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Think number
10 April 1999
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Wet and dry
10 April 1999
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Ed's eye
10 April 1999
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World's web
10 April 1999
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Classic cut
10 April 1999
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Movie mail
03 April 1999
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Heart of the matter
03 April 1999
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Spatial memo
03 April 1999
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Anyone listening?
03 April 1999
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Burning money
03 April 1999
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Living glue
03 April 1999
Liquid cartilage can fix the joints of athletes and the elderly
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We'll be right back after the break . . .
03 April 1999
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Exquisite taste
03 April 1999
Traditional plant breeding can produce a superior fruit
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Off their food
03 April 1999
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It's raining pesticides
03 April 1999
The water falling from our skies is unfit to drink
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Plastic recycling toughens up its act
03 April 1999
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Not so fast . . .
03 April 1999
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Institutional sexism
03 April 1999
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Hot and slippery
03 April 1999
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Killer pheasants
03 April 1999
Ironically, one game bird may be seeing off another
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No bones about it...
03 April 1999
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Calculating passions
03 April 1999
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Don't blame the father
03 April 1999
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False starts
03 April 1999
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Ulcers on tap
03 April 1999
Dangerous bugs may be lurking in your pipes
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Inventive welcome
03 April 1999
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Crane games
03 April 1999
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Who's talking?
03 April 1999
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Plane sailing
03 April 1999
If your engine's gone, just pull the ripcord
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Shock therapy
03 April 1999
Could a smart trick with DNA melt away deadly allergies?
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Diamonds aren't forever
03 April 1999
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Picture this
03 April 1999
A lungful of xenon will improve your body image
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The soft footfall that signals dinner
03 April 1999
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Honey, I shrank the reactor
03 April 1999
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Rocket rigs
03 April 1999
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Rudder redesign
03 April 1999
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Border controls
03 April 1999
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Ray of light
03 April 1999
There's a simpler explanation for gamma-ray bursts
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The pigs must die!
03 April 1999
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It's violent out there
03 April 1999
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Norwegian judge keeps wolves at the door
03 April 1999
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Shaky defences
03 April 1999
The US military is vulnerable to attack from cyberspace
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Dracula plague
03 April 1999
From the makers of rabies, smallpox, flu, the black death . . .
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Wise finches opt for the unisex look
03 April 1999
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Grown astray
03 April 1999
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All fired up
03 April 1999
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In safe hands?
03 April 1999
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A tale of lost tongues
03 April 1999
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Bloody dangerous
03 April 1999
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Blind to the eclipse
03 April 1999
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Water on tap
03 April 1999
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Safe satellites
03 April 1999
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Wastepaper mines
03 April 1999
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Slow to connect
03 April 1999
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03 April 1999
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Self-selection
03 April 1999
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Not such a bad career after all
03 April 1999
Ian Lowe finds some good news from the statisticians -
The Last Word
03 April 1999
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Feedback
03 April 1999
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03 April 1999
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Doctor, doctor
03 April 1999
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What bug?
03 April 1999
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Sperm 'n' eggs
03 April 1999
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Attentive gene
03 April 1999
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Vain death
03 April 1999
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The fifth element
03 April 1999
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Breathe easy
03 April 1999
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Spot light
03 April 1999
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Not so green
03 April 1999
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Ruling passions
03 April 1999
It doesn't matter whether you're a moose or a mouse there's an elegant relationship between body size and almost everything about you. Roger Lewin lifts the lid on a neat trick of nature
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Dust mite's dilemma
03 April 1999
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The god of small things
03 April 1999
Researchers have come up with an ingenious trick to create a nanosized chemistry kit
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The evicted spirit
03 April 1999
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Domed life
03 April 1999
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from Los Angeles
03 April 1999
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Worlds apart
03 April 1999
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Edinburgh's other festival
03 April 1999
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The Ultimate Terrorists by Jessica Stern and Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons by Tim Trevan
03 April 1999
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Farewell, death
03 April 1999
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Shockingly old
03 April 1999
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Fertile brain
03 April 1999