Love me tender: Making condoms that are both sensitive and safe is big business – and getting bigger all the time
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Future of a superpower
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Cities in the sky: Imagine the tallest building in the world, and then double the height of it. You could be living there sooner than you think . . .
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Panic in Gadget City: The search for the next big product is on in the cut-throat world of consumer electronics
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Why fish puts heart into the nation
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Longer yet and longer . . .: Japan’s engineers are determinedly conservative when it comes to building bridges. But it doesn’t stop them from breaking world records
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Bitter wars in the pub?: Traditional British beer is dark, full-bodied and hard to copy – so can Japan brew a better pint?
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Technology
Beating the bullet train
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Trains, lifts and automobiles: Alun Anderson meets Yoshihiro Kyotani, the man behind the maglev train and other impossible projects
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Electric dreams take to the road: With the pressure on to limit carbon emissions, manufacturers are finally making electric cars that are more than just interesting prototypes
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Can robots come to care for us? Meeting the needs of an ever growing army of old people is pushing Japan’s technical ingenuity to the limit
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Small is powerful: Just when you thought computers couldn’t get any smaller, nano-scientists are talking about shrinking supercomputers to the size of a hardback book . . .
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The Green Empire: Japan desperately wants to become a leader
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Examination hell: Britain wants its schools to be more like those of Japan – competitive, conservative and uniform. But Japan has its own problems
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Inside the Fruit Kingdom: Millions of tourists flock to the little town of Takahata each year in search of the nation’s past and a gentler way of life. But even there the pressures of modern life are steadily encroaching
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Review: Beware of Europe’s insecure bigots
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Table of contents
News
Strong arm of the law embraces British octopuses
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Chinese test site forced into public view
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Entrepreneurs open market on the Moon
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AIDS activists change tack on drugs
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A future for South African science
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Watch needed for new diseases
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Major admits ‘We got it wrong’
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Will Gummer go soft on genetic hazards?
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Plutonium dustbin filling up fast
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Tiger skin traders arrested in Delhi raid
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Are periods a protection against men?
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Inheritance plays key role in brain disease
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Money running out for Europe’s giant telescope
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Good nosh in the bush
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Fishy poison wipes out wasps
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Neptune’s friends
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Safety code
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French fillip
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Blooming sewage
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Pesticide row
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Clinton’s cure-all
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Science: Did life have a simple start?
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Science: Superconductor hits a new high
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Science: Andromeda may not be out twin
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Science: Personal alarm flushes out aphids
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Science: Fungus softens up rape for the kill
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Science: Nuclear trinity revealed in halo
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Opinion
Features
Love me tender: Making condoms that are both sensitive and safe is big business – and getting bigger all the time
Features
Future of a superpower
Features
Cities in the sky: Imagine the tallest building in the world, and then double the height of it. You could be living there sooner than you think . . .
Features
Panic in Gadget City: The search for the next big product is on in the cut-throat world of consumer electronics
Features
Why fish puts heart into the nation
Features
Longer yet and longer . . .: Japan’s engineers are determinedly conservative when it comes to building bridges. But it doesn’t stop them from breaking world records
Features
Bitter wars in the pub?: Traditional British beer is dark, full-bodied and hard to copy – so can Japan brew a better pint?
Features
Technology
Beating the bullet train
Features
Trains, lifts and automobiles: Alun Anderson meets Yoshihiro Kyotani, the man behind the maglev train and other impossible projects
Features
Electric dreams take to the road: With the pressure on to limit carbon emissions, manufacturers are finally making electric cars that are more than just interesting prototypes
Features
Can robots come to care for us? Meeting the needs of an ever growing army of old people is pushing Japan’s technical ingenuity to the limit
Features
Small is powerful: Just when you thought computers couldn’t get any smaller, nano-scientists are talking about shrinking supercomputers to the size of a hardback book . . .
Features
The Green Empire: Japan desperately wants to become a leader
Features
Examination hell: Britain wants its schools to be more like those of Japan – competitive, conservative and uniform. But Japan has its own problems
Features
Inside the Fruit Kingdom: Millions of tourists flock to the little town of Takahata each year in search of the nation’s past and a gentler way of life. But even there the pressures of modern life are steadily encroaching
Features
Review: Beware of Europe’s insecure bigots
Features
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Review: Strategic hits and misses
Books & Arts
Review: Consuming power behind the throne
Books & Arts
Review: Brief encounters of a professional gaijin
Books & Arts
