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This week's magazine
21 September 1996
Issue 2048
On the cover
Editor's picks
Earth
Slash & grow
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How did paradise begin?
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Life on the edge – How much rainforest do you need to capture diversity? When ecologists created “islands” to find out, they had no idea how complex the answers would be, says Bob Holmes
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Kinder Cuts – Logging is a brutal business, ripping the forest apart and leaving its lush interior to dry out into a tinderbox. But there are sustainable ways to harvest the timber, says Gabrielle Walker
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Shot in the dark – The US Army is developing a rifle that does a whole lot more than shoot bullets, reports Bennett Daviss. It’s a portable spy machine
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Cosmic beakers – When physicists want to find out why galaxies cluster together in filaments, says Philip Ball, they don’t scrutinise the night sky. They peer into beakers of bizarre liquids
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Table of contents
News
California’s castration law `ill-judged’
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Not with a `pop’ but a `plop’
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Alien flatworms lay siege to Scotland
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Yes, we have vaccinating bananas
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Tales of the grotesque and rabid
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Antigravity machine weighed down by controversy
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Return to sender, address unknown
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Malaria vaccine fails to deliver
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Haunting tunes from ghostly players
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Why women don’t start wars
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Blind brain `sees’ rapid movement
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Drug cocktails have hidden risks
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Farming shrinks butterfly gene pool
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How ear cells switch on sound
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One wing is better than two
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Dirty groundwater runs deep – Spreading pollution is increasingly fouling Britain’s underground water reserves
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Science : In the mood to overeat
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Science : Potent peptide stifles the appetite
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Science : Hubble spies galactic bubbles
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Science : Plot thickens in Earth’s inside story
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Science : Neutrinos reveal the Sun’s secret heartbeat
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Science : Unswerving nerves keep us on course
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Science : Infant infection may stop malaria running wild
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Technology
Technology : Look safely into the light
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Technology
Technology : Video camera that packs ’em in
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Technology
Netropolitan :
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Technology
Technology : Spiderman may sign for Galatasaray
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Technology
Technology : Flat is beautiful for future chips
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Technology
Technology : Hot throat makes a safer sound
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Technology
Technology : Compost is a natural-born killer
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Opinion
Editorial : Castration or incarceration? – THERE are some policies that politicians like to be seen toying with even though nobody in their right mind would dream of making them law. For years the idea of routinely castrating sex offenders fell squarely i
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The truth is out there . . . – WHAT goes up must come down, if the textbook laws of gravity are to be believed. Are scientific reputations subject to the same rules? The two physicists who may鈥攐r may not, depending on which one of them you talk to&m
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Features
Into the forest – A few years ago, a Brazilian agronomist, sitting at his desk in the Ministry of Agriculture in Bras铆lia, spoke to one of our correspondents thus:
Features
Earth
Slash & grow
Features
How did paradise begin?
Features
Life on the edge – How much rainforest do you need to capture diversity? When ecologists created “islands” to find out, they had no idea how complex the answers would be, says Bob Holmes
Features
Kinder Cuts – Logging is a brutal business, ripping the forest apart and leaving its lush interior to dry out into a tinderbox. But there are sustainable ways to harvest the timber, says Gabrielle Walker
Features
Shot in the dark – The US Army is developing a rifle that does a whole lot more than shoot bullets, reports Bennett Daviss. It’s a portable spy machine
Features
Cosmic beakers – When physicists want to find out why galaxies cluster together in filaments, says Philip Ball, they don’t scrutinise the night sky. They peer into beakers of bizarre liquids
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