March - 1999 Articles
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Digging a hole
27 March 1999
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Half and half
27 March 1999
The simple worms that set the shape of bodies
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Cutting off a tumour's energy supply
27 March 1999
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You've got post
27 March 1999
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Spill-proof keyboard
27 March 1999
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Lara lives
27 March 1999
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Built by bugs
27 March 1999
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Go for meltdown
27 March 1999
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A clean sweep
27 March 1999
Perfect scans every time . . . even with shaky hands
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It's got to go
27 March 1999
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Cold burn takes sting out of bioweapons
27 March 1999
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Heartburn link
27 March 1999
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HIV heresy
27 March 1999
Should doctors urge patients to take breaks from their drugs?
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The camera lies
27 March 1999
British courts have too much faith in video evidence
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Keep the ban
27 March 1999
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Millennial maternity
27 March 1999
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Changing stations
27 March 1999
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Star Wars returns
27 March 1999
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Snakes use night sights to stalk their prey
27 March 1999
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Caught in the act
27 March 1999
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Why your brain is primed for a high
27 March 1999
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Bring your own
27 March 1999
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Lost without it
27 March 1999
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Flying blind
27 March 1999
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Disturbing trend
27 March 1999
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Double trouble
27 March 1999
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Jukebox rebellion
27 March 1999
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Never say die
27 March 1999
You don't need to make sperm or even be alive to be father
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Night of the Living Nanobe
27 March 1999
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Freeze! Gene police!
27 March 1999
Enforcing Europe's tough food laws could depend on a very precise DNA kit
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Pet shop toys
27 March 1999
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Cooking up a storm
27 March 1999
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Video the radio
27 March 1999
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Remember, remember
27 March 1999
Rats with damaged brains could help forgetful humans
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Fast foresight
27 March 1999
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Ant fever
27 March 1999
What is going wrong on Christmas Island?
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Tiny wonders
27 March 1999
If they are alive, they'll go straight into the record books
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Let them smoke pot
27 March 1999
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Sea change
27 March 1999
Weather forecasting has leapt into the new millennium
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A robot that knows its place
27 March 1999
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Off-piste winner
27 March 1999
Now you can put skis to the test without hitting the slopes
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The time is now
27 March 1999
So who's feeling brave enough to solve the problem of nuclear waste?
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The last word
27 March 1999
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It pays to know your worth
27 March 1999
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Feedback
27 March 1999
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27 March 1999
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Virulent vitamin
27 March 1999
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More Minamata
27 March 1999
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Smoke more nicotine
27 March 1999
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Land without mice
27 March 1999
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27 March 1999
Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
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Correction
27 March 1999
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Spare legs
27 March 1999
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Better sort of elephant
27 March 1999
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Blind to Tritium?
27 March 1999
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Probing the probe
27 March 1999
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Pipe dreams
27 March 1999
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27 March 1999
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Today is today
27 March 1999
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27 March 1999
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Non-compliant
27 March 1999
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Two bytes of the cherry blossom
27 March 1999
Bob Johnstone unpacks a software success in Japan
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Lair of the sea dragon
27 March 1999
You need special eyes if you're going to get the most out of life in the deep ocean. Stephanie Pain heads for the twilight zone
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Biotech's bitter fruit
27 March 1999
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Tissue of lies
27 March 1999
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Beware! High-speed yoghurt at work
27 March 1999
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Hole in one
27 March 1999
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Pump up the volume
27 March 1999
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Wanna fight?
27 March 1999
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Crystal moulds
27 March 1999
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Cuba's secret
27 March 1999
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Here's looking at you
27 March 1999
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Bang on target
27 March 1999
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Yum, yum, yum
27 March 1999
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Big is bad
27 March 1999
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Eroding America
27 March 1999
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Me and my memes
27 March 1999
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Mission improbable
27 March 1999
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Play's the thing
27 March 1999
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I wanna fly away
27 March 1999
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No no nano
27 March 1999
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A quiet life
27 March 1999
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from Washington
27 March 1999
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Trouble in paradise
20 March 1999
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Queen's English?
20 March 1999
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Hidden Marillion
20 March 1999
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Red faces all round
20 March 1999
A leading bomb lab has suffered an embarrassing security lapse
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Something rotten…
20 March 1999
How bluebottles and beetles could help preserve your food
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Where no chip has gone before
20 March 1999
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Human bar codes
20 March 1999
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Chips chill out
20 March 1999
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Bad blood
20 March 1999
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Tax is on target
20 March 1999
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Not a sound idea
20 March 1999
Nonlethal acoustic weapons seem to be doomed
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Blood verdict
20 March 1999
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Antibiotic protest
20 March 1999
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Safe to eat?
20 March 1999
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A leg up
20 March 1999
Three-legged chickens reveal how limbs develop
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Flick of the tongue
20 March 1999
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Wet welcome
20 March 1999
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Reality check
20 March 1999
Time's up for some weird and wonderful gravity theories
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Snapshots of space
20 March 1999
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Suckling pigs acquire a taste for cordon bleu
20 March 1999
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Crying wolf
20 March 1999
The heat is on to prevent anthrax hoaxers causing mayhem
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Doctors say sayonara to paperwork
20 March 1999
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Strong stuff
20 March 1999
Where athletes lead, doctors may follow
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Smallpox appeal
20 March 1999
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Phones on trial
20 March 1999
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Gene race
20 March 1999
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No more nice guys . . .
20 March 1999
Beware the F word, unless you know what it means
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Forever young
20 March 1999
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The long goodbye
20 March 1999
Saving a whale from hunting doesn't always keep extinction at bay
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Reykjavik rattles the harpoons
20 March 1999
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Manifold blessings
20 March 1999
Just because it's fast doesn't mean it can't be green
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Complete control
20 March 1999
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Guiding light
20 March 1999
Optical fibres can pinpoint dangerous spills
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Confusion reigns
20 March 1999
Rival standards are blighting music's digital future
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For your ears only
20 March 1999
Tune in to Radio Personal for your very own traffic update
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Saviour from the acid swamps
20 March 1999
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Seeing the light
20 March 1999
A chance find has solved the riddle of glowing deep-sea vents
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Why the pain of wounds comes back to haunt you
20 March 1999
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Hue and cry
20 March 1999
If you thought colour perception was universal, think again
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Mind the gap
20 March 1999
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Suck it and see
20 March 1999
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No screws loose
20 March 1999
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Tax break
20 March 1999
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Lovely bubbly
20 March 1999
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Mark Buchanan writes:
20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
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All tied up
20 March 1999
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Quantum rules
20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
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Correction:
20 March 1999
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Correction:
20 March 1999
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Feedback
20 March 1999
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Birth ethics
20 March 1999
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It's all Greek . . .
20 March 1999
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Nickel odium
20 March 1999
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True to tape
20 March 1999
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The last word
20 March 1999
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Plants on the move
20 March 1999
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The People bite back
20 March 1999
Ian Lowe assesses a conference on genetically modified food
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GM sanctions
20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
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Quantum certainty
20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
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Her next door
20 March 1999
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from Cambridge
20 March 1999
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The complete bird
20 March 1999
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Ten, nine, eight... you're under
20 March 1999
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States of mind
20 March 1999
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Saved from ourselves
20 March 1999
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The heart that just won't die
20 March 1999
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Dragged apart
20 March 1999
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Below the belt
20 March 1999
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Fertile is fine
20 March 1999
The US relaxes the rules controlling gene therapy
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Ailing Hubble sends NASA into a spin
20 March 1999
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Urban jungle
20 March 1999
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Self seeking
20 March 1999
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Beyond fiction
20 March 1999
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Take your pick
20 March 1999
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Spirit of the stacks
20 March 1999
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It's everybody's baby
20 March 1999
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20 March 1999
More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Neolithic farmers grew modified maize
20 March 1999
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Artful
20 March 1999
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How to do it
20 March 1999
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Don't fence me in
20 March 1999
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Medieval medics
20 March 1999
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The new wave
13 March 1999
Magnetic fields are giving us unprecedented power over atoms
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The plight of the bumblebee
13 March 1999
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Alpine whiteout
13 March 1999
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Cold storage
13 March 1999
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Inside information
13 March 1999
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Digging the dirt on age
13 March 1999
Archaeological methods of estimating age may be deeply flawed
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Varnishing trick
13 March 1999
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Nanotriumph
13 March 1999
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Reflect on this
13 March 1999
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Behind you!
13 March 1999
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Gene world's bad guys revamp their image
13 March 1999
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Heaven scent
13 March 1999
What makes things smell good, bad or downright awful
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Light fantastic
13 March 1999
Laser sensors will help keep waterways clean
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Hormone shield
13 March 1999
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Storm warning
13 March 1999
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Bitter Pill
13 March 1999
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Fat chance of success on a muesli diet
13 March 1999
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Ozone oversight
13 March 1999
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Far flung
13 March 1999
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Scare stories
13 March 1999
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Blinded by science
13 March 1999
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Dust spells danger for young minds
13 March 1999
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Hard stuff
13 March 1999
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All for one and one for all
13 March 1999
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E-confusion
13 March 1999
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Are your secrets safe?
13 March 1999
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Sex pheromone could save thousands
13 March 1999
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It looks like a bug . . .
13 March 1999
But then so did fragments of the first Martian meteorite
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An ear for music
13 March 1999
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Eat your words
13 March 1999
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Faking it
13 March 1999
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Now hear this
13 March 1999
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Light show
13 March 1999
Meet the octopus that swapped its sturdy grip for an eerie glow
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Loose WIRE
13 March 1999
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Blooming marvellous
13 March 1999
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The big one lurking beneath LA
13 March 1999
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Gene feud
13 March 1999
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Lament for the wild
13 March 1999
Scotland's mountain habitats face a bleak future
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Gutcha!
13 March 1999
At last there's a way to fight the dreaded
E. coli -
Viagra doesn't do it for women
13 March 1999
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Spring clean
13 March 1999
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Be calm
13 March 1999
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Flying into danger
13 March 1999
Are astronauts exposed to unnecessary hazards?
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All about Eve …
13 March 1999
The mother of all modern women has just got a lot older
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Looking sharp
13 March 1999
Novel superceramics are transforming spaceplanes
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Blame it on the memes
13 March 1999
How long will it be before lawyers invoke the ultimate defence?
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Liquid genius
13 March 1999
There's more to the mind than neural networks. Messages also percolate through the soup-like fluid bathing the brain. Alison Mitchell reports
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GUT for socks
13 March 1999
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Steady-state libraries
13 March 1999
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13 March 1999
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13 March 1999
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13 March 1999
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13 March 1999
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Elderly online
13 March 1999
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Proceed with caution
13 March 1999
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In the dark
13 March 1999
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Not so smart
13 March 1999
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Nearest figure
13 March 1999
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Round the pole
13 March 1999
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Overwhelmed
13 March 1999
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Who needs windows
13 March 1999
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Feedback
13 March 1999
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The Last Word
13 March 1999
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Here comes the sun
13 March 1999
Ian Lowe spies a bright future for renewable energy
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. . . . .
13 March 1999
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Too much too old
13 March 1999
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Laying the blame
13 March 1999
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Hidden HIV
13 March 1999
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Out of the woods
13 March 1999
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. . . . .
13 March 1999
More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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from San Francisco
13 March 1999
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I'll patent that
13 March 1999
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Master class
13 March 1999
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Chemistry set
13 March 1999
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Third rock from the Sun
13 March 1999
Peter D. Moore takes a close look at the state of the biosphere
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The naked cosmos
13 March 1999
David Hughes plucks some stars from a firmament of books
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Just add water
13 March 1999
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Meme, Myself, I
13 March 1999
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Massive attack
13 March 1999
Last year's discovery that neutrinos have mass was a mortal blow to the most cherished theory of particle physics. Michael Riordan looks at the bizarre theories that could replace it
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Waspish males
13 March 1999
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In the blood
13 March 1999
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Dolly mixtures
13 March 1999
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The right chemistry
13 March 1999
The lab is the hotbed of true creativity, says Peter Budd
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I remember it well
13 March 1999
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Go organic
13 March 1999
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Cosmic sense
13 March 1999
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Frozen facts
13 March 1999
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One Renegade Cell by Robert Weinberg and other books
13 March 1999
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Building sites
13 March 1999
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Prime Lakatos
13 March 1999
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Growth guide
13 March 1999
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Jams today
13 March 1999
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The turn of the screw
13 March 1999
Ian Stewart finds the human face of mathematics
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The panic gene
06 March 1999
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It's crazy
06 March 1999
A loophole in BSE testing could encourage Swiss farmers to cheat
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Climb every mountain
06 March 1999
Now digital TV can penetrate the most rugged terrain
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Clever payload
06 March 1999
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Strange Netfellows
06 March 1999
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Dollars turn swords into…more swords
06 March 1999
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Something in the water
06 March 1999
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Heart of the matter
06 March 1999
Does a sinister bacterium turn the body against itself?
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Where to find lust on the mind map
06 March 1999
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Got there at last
06 March 1999
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Top security
06 March 1999
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Nuclear deaths
06 March 1999
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Warriors catch the nuclear bug
06 March 1999
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The crop that pumps iron
06 March 1999
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Take heart
06 March 1999
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Splitting hairs
06 March 1999
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Off their greens
06 March 1999
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Name that bird
06 March 1999
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Bad blood
06 March 1999
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Falling into place
06 March 1999
Choose the right pieces and they'll assemble themselves
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Listen to mother
06 March 1999
The latest word in farm equipment is a good hi-fi system
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Use it or lose it
06 March 1999
If you don't exercise new brain cells, they may die
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Cold comfort
06 March 1999
Transmitters may give off-piste skiers a false sense of security
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Time for prayer
06 March 1999
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Deathly hush
06 March 1999
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Sensor sensibility
06 March 1999
Control that computer with a wave of your hand
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Clear and present danger?
06 March 1999
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News hungry?
06 March 1999
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You've got mail
06 March 1999
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Pass the earplugs
06 March 1999
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Change of heart
06 March 1999
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Get the picture
06 March 1999
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Double vision
06 March 1999
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Hair raising
06 March 1999
The secret to restoring those luscious locks is in your head
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Mashed potatoes
06 March 1999
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Treaty to control gene trade stuck in limbo
06 March 1999
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Sweet sensation
06 March 1999
Now we know what makes food taste the way it does
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Caring for the customer
06 March 1999
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Yet another reason to quit
06 March 1999
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Shut that door
06 March 1999
A broken hinge is adding to Sellafield's woes
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Older than their years
06 March 1999
Zapping a key enzyme produces mice that seem to age prematurely
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It's style, but knot as you as know it
06 March 1999
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Take a deep breath . . .
06 March 1999
Stark economics mean hard choices about cigarettes
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Two to Tango
06 March 1999
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All about scum
06 March 1999
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Not for burning
06 March 1999
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Ducking out
06 March 1999
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On the balls
06 March 1999
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Correction
06 March 1999
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Behind the thin blue line
06 March 1999
Do you fancy using your scientific qualifications helping to keep law and order?
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Fossil renegades
06 March 1999
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Bogeyman gas
06 March 1999
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Rabbiting robots
06 March 1999
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Feedback
06 March 1999
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Colourful Origins
06 March 1999
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Secret weapons
06 March 1999
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Dino dolphin
06 March 1999
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Once bitten
06 March 1999
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A Rewarding Tale
06 March 1999
May I help? No, I'm fine. Really, I insist. Thanks, but no. It's my pleasure. . .
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The Last Word
06 March 1999
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The Bear Essentials and other tales from Evolution
06 March 1999
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Staying alive
06 March 1999
Nepotism is easy if all your family have green beards
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Survival of the fattest
06 March 1999
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Selfish self-interest
06 March 1999
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Crystal clear
06 March 1999
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06 March 1999
More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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A thinking man
06 March 1999
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Now, voyager
06 March 1999
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Faux primitif
06 March 1999
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The probe that fell to Earth
06 March 1999
If a spacecraft carrying a deadly cargo of plutonium crashed in a remote area, you'd expect an international search effort to prevent it falling into the wrong hands. But you'd be wrong, says James Oberg
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Electric dreams
06 March 1999
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...fear itself
06 March 1999
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Jump to it
06 March 1999
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Hard to crack
06 March 1999
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What's real
06 March 1999
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Four into three
06 March 1999
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High times
06 March 1999
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Ranging marsupials against mutton
06 March 1999
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Children and chimps
06 March 1999
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No chimps here
06 March 1999
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Next stop, Titan
06 March 1999
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Take me to the South Pole
06 March 1999
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Press the flesh
06 March 1999
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Under lock and key
06 March 1999
Your secrets are safe for now, says Duncan Graham-Rowe
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from Montreal
06 March 1999
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An end to uncertainty
06 March 1999
Wave goodbye to the uncertainty principle -you don't need it any more. Say hello to quantum entanglement, says Mark Buchanan