Plastic’s power play – It’s recyclable, it contains no heavy metals and it can be moulded into all kinds of shapes. The plastic battery has arrived
Features
This week's magazine
26 October 1996
Issue 2053
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
bytes : changing places
News
bytes : Deakin puts course on the line
News
Scan : critical mass
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Scan : greenhouse collection
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Scan : insect world
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Scan : John Rice …downloaded
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research: in the lab : Smart fibres direct light
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research: in the field : Heavy weather
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Smart smugglers outwit the CFC cops
News
Life on Mars may be too hot to handle鈥�
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鈥ut NASA promises not to hide its face
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Words alone will not clear smog
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Tough gestation for virtual embryo
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Pneumonia runs riot in Brazil’s cr猫ches
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Contamination fears linger as French quit Mururoa
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Superwheat to feed the world
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Drivers risk cancer in the cab
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If you must drink, take up jogging
News
Radioactive forests will bring power to the people
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Dengue fever outbreak angers Indian judges
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Congress pulls the plug on Gulf Stream maps
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Star Wars returns to haunt tomorrow’s battlefields
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Passive risk
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Ebola outbreak
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Technology jackpot
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Breathtaking ozone
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Sea birds’ friends
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Horse killer found
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Smile, you’re in a beauty contest
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Smoking gun
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Pirates in the garden of India
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Science : Mystery asteroid was eaten by fire
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Science : Does dope block pregnancy?
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Science : Tumbling gas may cause starquakes
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Science : Why crickets love a steady male
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Science : Viral assassin turns on cancer cells
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Science : Knotty problem emerges from the looking glass
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Science : Water `rains’ on the ringed planet
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Science : Unwanted DNA goes into the garbage disposal
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Technology
Technology : Machine minds your language
News
Technology
Netropolitan :
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Technology
Technology : Naked fruit for lazy shoppers
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Technology
Technology : Pioneering TV girls dance again
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Technology
Technology : When a sketch tells a thousand words
News
Technology
Patents : Fast ball?
News
Technology
Patents : Liquid test
News
Technology
Patents : Smart watches
News
Technology
Patents : What goes up…
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Technology
Patents : Mirror, mirror
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Technology
Patents : The trouble with trademarks
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Opinion
Editorial : New Age on Mars – BACK in 1976 when someone at NASA’s news center in Pasadena decided that they needed to generate more press interest in the pictures the Viking orbiter was taking of the Martian surface, they probably didn’t realise quite wha
Opinion
Editorial : Get tough with piracy on the CFCs – NOT before time, governments are starting to talk tough about the smuggling of Russian-made CFCs and the growing black market in the outlawed chemicals among suppliers of coolants for air-conditioning and re
Opinion
Features
Plastic’s power play – It’s recyclable, it contains no heavy metals and it can be moulded into all kinds of shapes. The plastic battery has arrived
Features
When volcanoes get violent – Some volcanoes explode dramatically while others are content merely to spew their lava down the hillside. Erik Stokstad visited the Greek island of Santorini to find out why
Features
A suitable survey
Features
Born to trade
Features
More
AustralAsian : Time to tally Asian student contribution – Bob Johnstone talks to a university administrator about enrolment trends
Review : A universe of one’s own
Books & Arts
Review : The brain’s big bang
Books & Arts
Review : Prairie politics
Books & Arts
Review : Creepy collection
Books & Arts
Review : Geek history
Books & Arts
Review : Acceptable risk?
Books & Arts
Review : At death’s door
Books & Arts
Review : Down but not out
Books & Arts
Review : Speaking from the other side
Books & Arts
Review : Blue story
Books & Arts
Review : Quantum comeback
Books & Arts
Review : Body of evidence
Books & Arts
Bestsellers : from San Francisco
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works
Books & Arts
