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This week's magazine
9 April 1994
Issue 1920
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
South Africa lures back its lost talent
News
Outrage greets patent on designer sperm
News
Will drugs giants bale out Darwin?
News
Patten ponders back to basics ..
News
.but will anything woo the schoolkids?
News
‘Isolated’ researchers lose cash
News
Mine’s a wine, with no extra tax
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Captain’s log finds lost comet
News
Nictotine research ‘suppressed’ by tobacco company
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Experts clean up as Eastern Europe stays dirty
News
Aethelburg knew me ..
News
Cameras keep death off the roads
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Building bones
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Chernobyl’s fate
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Brighter future for boat lift
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Island payout
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Lab auction
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Culture shock
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Return flight
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Pleasure or addiction?: The reason why cigarette companies change the levels of nicotine in tobacco is at the heart of an investigation that could see smoking banned in the US once and for all
News
Science: The ghostly hand that spaced the planets
News
Science: Comet cataclysm is written in the stars
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Science: Babies born to artifical ‘cells’
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Science: How a sea change killed the clams
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Science: The Smallest story ever told
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Erogonomic’ shovel gets over the hump
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Technology
Technology: Four digits get set to sink CD pirates
News
Technology
Technology: Multimedia patent is overturned after industry protest
News
Technology
Technology: Cellular ‘control box’ to switch on genes
News
Technology
Technology: Electricity spots the cells smears may miss
News
Technology
Technology: End of the line for petrol tank pollution
News
Opinion
Features
Software’s special agents: Tired of sifting through electronic mail, searching databases and scanning networks for interesting news? An intelligent agent could be what you need.
Features
Life
Hot bacteria & other ancestors
Features
The Galaxy’s Dark secrets: For years, astronomers knew there was a dark secret surrounding the Galaxy’s missing mass. Now they think they know what it is
Features
Life
Not now, dear, I’m busy
Features
More
Review: Space-age shamans or shysters?
Books & Arts
Review: Trading in madness and muddle
Books & Arts
Review: A treasure trove for mathematicians
Books & Arts
Review: Take one corpse, and add worms ..
Books & Arts
Review: Doubts and the dating game
Books & Arts
Review: Holography finds a home
Books & Arts
Review: Where the satellites are
Books & Arts
