Death of old age – We can live healthy lives well into our hundreds, some researchers claim. But is ageing really a disease that can be cured? David Concar investigates
Features
This week's magazine
22 June 1996
Issue 2035
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Past lead pollution poisons unborn children
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Dirty ships evade acid rain controls
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Foresight accused of short sight
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Narrow escape for Monju reactor
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Mad monkeys fuel beef crisis
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Spare parts . . . but not for surgery
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MRC looks to City for biotech cash
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US ship comes to the rescue of Russian polar team
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Social injustice adds to South Asia’s hunger
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Neural net stops serious stutterers slipping through
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US bioterror alert prompts tighter rules
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Polluter pays up in Papua
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Germany and Japan block nuclear spot checks
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Crackdown on Net crooks `a charter for state snoopers’
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Done to death
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Ariane clue
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Antarctica 3, South Africa 1
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Cow power
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Voracious climbers
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DNA sets you free
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Genetics watchdog
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Blood on the water – Britain’s refusal to support the lifting of the worldwide ban on commercial whaling could bring back the bad old days of uncontrolled slaughter
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Science : HIV’s handholds lose their grip
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Science : Broken bones heal better with DNA
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Earth
Science : The secret of life in the Dead Sea
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Science : Earth menaced by superbubble
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Science : Milky Way is sour at heart
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Science : Giant lake lurks beneath Antarctica’s ice
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Science : Enzyme pushes cell’s self-destruct button
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Science : Why stressful lives begin before birth
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Technology
Technology : Peptides punch it out with superbugs
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Technology
Technology : Waste plastics get sorted
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Technology
Netropolitan :
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Technology
Technology : Tyre tracks trace runoff water
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Technology
Technology : Software trick gets the picture more quickly
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Technology
Technology : Computer firms cash in on the classroom
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Technology
Technology : The secret life of concrete
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Technology
Technology : Two’s company three’s a sensor
News
Opinion
Editorial : No time to play politics – NEXT Thursday, Australians will be presented with a report card on how they are treating their environment. It is likely to make disturbing reading. Leaks from the 600-page report over the past few weeks hint at the
Opinion
Editorial: Storming the City walls
Opinion
Features
Death of old age – We can live healthy lives well into our hundreds, some researchers claim. But is ageing really a disease that can be cured? David Concar investigates
Features
Rights of passage
Features
Snap happy under the sea – Amazingly detailed images of the seafloor could soon help clean up radioactive waste dumps under water or find the right site for telecoms cables. Bennett Daviss takes a look at a new kind of sonar
Features
Have we got problems for you
Features
More
Earth
Antipodes: Chilly reception awaits Australia in Geneva
Ian Lowe finds that commercial interests sway greenhouse stance
Review : Fab futures
Books & Arts
Review : Herbwise
Books & Arts
Review : Classic Kurt
Books & Arts
Review : Darwin’s third force
Books & Arts
Review : Kush-y number
Books & Arts
Review : Summit to read
Books & Arts
Review : Wasp alert
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Review : A salve for psychache
Books & Arts
Review : UFO at 12 o’clock
Books & Arts
Review : New for old
Books & Arts
Review : Does this mean goodbye?
Books & Arts
Review : Money talks
Books & Arts
Review : Big questions
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Review : It’s all Greek to me
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works
Books & Arts
Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford
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