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Humans
How apartheid’s violence lives on
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Up, Up and away to the beginning of time: Balloons that float to the very edge of the atmosphere are giving astronomers the most detailed view yet of the radiation echoing down from the earliest years of the Universe
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Milstar: mission impossible: The US Air Force is building a satellite communications network designed to work even during a nuclear attack. But with the Cold War now over is this costly system really necessary
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News
Milk hormone data bottled up for years
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Einstein’s second thoughts about general relativity
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Gummer leaves environment agency toothless
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Lasting fame for captor of fleeting ions
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Ground rules for the games nations play
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Whose element is it anyway?
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Crystal maze men share Nobel
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Dinosaurs made a big impression in Portugal
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AIDS epidemic forces Third World to test vaccines
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Air of illusion in forest park
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Mercury caught out over free calls
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Torrid sex scenes puzzle octopus experts
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Eastern Europe heads for smoking catastrophe
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Digital tapping
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Ocean convulsions
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Contraceptive diet
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Broken promise?
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Prize greenhorn of the forest
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Healthy chips
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Informer’s reward
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Battle for Brazilian mahogany: One of the world’s most beautiful woods could disappear from the market within 15 years, say forestry scientists, the latest attempt to impose strict controls on logging
News
Flash dads make fitter kids
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Sleeping giant at the centre of the galaxy
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Early humans went hunting, gathering and fishing
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Dyslexia gene lurks in chromosome’s `black hole’
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`Black smokers’ multiply on ocean floor
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TB exposure revealed in a blood test
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Technology
And now, here is the traffic forecast …
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Technology
If music be the input of computers, type on
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Technology
How to turn spam into cash on the Internet
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Technology
Cool progress for aluminium joins
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Technology
Smart microwave is a touch easier
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Technology
Polluters’ signature is written in soot
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Enigma: Imaginary journeys
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Features
Hackers Code: So why did computer hackers forsake their terminals for a weekend in New York City?
Features
Humans
How apartheid’s violence lives on
Features
Up, Up and away to the beginning of time: Balloons that float to the very edge of the atmosphere are giving astronomers the most detailed view yet of the radiation echoing down from the earliest years of the Universe
Features
Milstar: mission impossible: The US Air Force is building a satellite communications network designed to work even during a nuclear attack. But with the Cold War now over is this costly system really necessary
Features
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No Way Back! The Second Law of Thermodynamics limits the efficiency of power stations and car engines, predicts the fate of the Universe, provides an arrow of time, and sets conditions on the evolution and continued existence of life
Inside Science
Molecular sex and free radicals: Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier by Philip Ball, Princeton University Press, pp 376, 拢19.95
Books & Arts
Why hormones are a political issue: Sexual Chemistry by Ellen Grant, Cedar, pp 346, 拢5.99 pbk Raging Hormones by Gail Vines, University of California Press in the US, Virago in Britain, pp 184, $25 hbk, $13/拢6.99 pbk
Books & Arts
Beware the fearsome Prohaptors, my son: Chaos In Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World by Clifford A. Pickover, St Martin’s Press, pp 302, $29.95
Books & Arts
Spectacular art of the masses: Migrations: Wildlife in Motion Photographs by Art Wolfe, text by Barbara Sleeper, Beyond Words, Hillsboro, Oregon, pp 167, $60
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