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Arachnophilia

Don’t bet on faster horses

A thousand channels in every home – Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television鈥攊f the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

To catch a space quake

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News

Bad blood over bar codes

Cluster team threatens to sue

Aborigines spare the dugong

Oily legacy lingers after `miracle’ cleanup

Richard and the giant strawberry

Sorry, wrong number again

Net search could reunite refugees

People power vs nuclear power

Mad calves fuel BSE fears

Log on… or sign on

Buck Rogers rocket rests in pieces

Word games at the ministry of sewage

Spooks help out in their spare time

Plant that cheers

Scorched Earth

Condom success

Monkeys in space

Air watch

To squeeze or not to squeeze?

A hundred years of carnage – Fewer people are being killed on the roads. But does this really mean they are getting safer?

Science : Are proteins real key to life?

Science : Worm that turns male mayflies into females

Science : Hot rocks driven underground

Science : Adding exercise to injury

Science : Volcanoes overshadow the seasons

Science : Fossil birds fly in the face of theories

Science : Superdecay holds mutations at bay

Technology

Technology : Time’s up for navigator in the sky

Technology

Technology : This message will self-destruct . . .

Technology

Technology : Brainy bit unlocks oil reserves

Technology

Technology : Spectrometer picks up vital signs

Technology

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Technology : Auntie is a dab hand with the Web

Technology

Technology : How to build just the right hole

Technology

Technology : A positive force in cleansing land

Technology

Technology : Ferrites fight acid runoff

Opinion

Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? – ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

Editorial : Dread and loathing in the technostate – THERE should be a special word for the feeling of dread caused by reading the works of macroeconomists. As the pages turn, you gradually realise that you are merely the tiniest of tiny cogs in a global m

Features

Arachnophilia

Come rain, wind and lack of gravity, you'll still find spiders spinning webs suited to their environment. Kate Douglas meets a biologist and arachnophile who thinks he knows how they do it

Don’t bet on faster horses

A thousand channels in every home – Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television鈥攊f the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

To catch a space quake

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Antipodes : Plea to halve the global fishing fleet – Ian Lowe attends a conference on world fisheries

Review : Body works out

Review : Nice try

Review : All in the mind?

Review : Program notes

Review : Sudden death by lava?

Review : Mr Newbie

Review : Smithsonian summer

Review : Fun for lawyers

Review : Go buy a glove

Review : What do you really think?

Review : Countdown 2000

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Washington

Forum : God and scientists reconciled

Forum : Funding the future of our research

Thistle diary : Nuclear outlaws and drug busters – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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