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16 May 1998

Issue 2134

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Watery wastelands

Features
91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Physics

The really fast show

Features
91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Deconstructing DNA

Features
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Life

Cast out of Eden

Features

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News

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Chemical kebab

POLYMERS whose chains resemble microscopic shish kebabs have been produced in a Dutch laboratory, and could prove useful as ion detectors. Roeland Nolte and his colleagues at the University of Nijmegen say in Chemical Communications (number 9, p 979) that the shish kebab structure is the first seen in a polymer. In place of each …

News

Genetic magic

News

Money to burn?

News

Doom watch

News

They asked for it

News

Tempestuous moons

News

That's another myth shattered...

News

Biggest bang

News

Dreamless sleep

News

Baby blueprints

News

Technology

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News

Technology

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News

Not the rain

News

Muddy waters

News

Technology

Caught napping

News

Technology

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News

The price of profit

News

It's enough to make a gene therapist drool

News

Let the blood run free

News

Edge of darkness

News

Perfect fit

News

Rising fast

News

Carry on talking

News

New wave dryer

News

Sex and drugs and teenage boys

News

How greasy hair can dispose of slicks

News

Playing with aliens could reveal your secrets

News

Living sensors

News

Bathtime for eggies

News

The tide turns

News

Genome project goes into overdrive

News

First stop, the Moon

News

Stay away from the bats, they might have rabies

News

Dental danger

News

What goes up ...

News

Quantum detectives

News

Technology

Furry friend

News

Technology

Keep on dancing

News

Technology

After you

News

Drugs to go

News

Their learned friends

News

The pieces that make up the jigsaw ...

News

Battle of the bulge

News

Keeping on the straight and narrow

News

Brain wave

News

Undercover operation

News

Opinion

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The whole truth . . .

WHEN you're in a hole, stop digging. This advice seems to be guiding the actions of the people who run the tobacco industry. Neither they nor their lawyers are saying anything about the 39 000 industry documents that were spectacularly thrust into the public domain on 22 April by one American congressman determined to shine …

Opinion

A licence to print money

Opinion

Features

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Watery wastelands

A TRAWL net scrapes the seabed, funnelling a precious catch into its trap. Cod, haddock and flounder are the intended prey but this device is indiscriminate. The hard wire of the net's leading edge cuts a swath through the jungle of bottom-dwelling creatures. Sponges, bryozoans and many others are smashed to bits. Some come up …

Features

Physics

The really fast show

Features

Deconstructing DNA

Features

Life

Cast out of Eden

Features

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Really wild

You'll find The Flight of the Iguana is written in a Tom Robbins-meets-Stephen Jay Gould style: a verbal helter-skelter ride through the wilder outreaches of natural history. From cryptozoology and Darwin's preoccupations with earthworms to reflections on the oddness of okapis, the scintillating combination of vivacious style, scientific observation and piercing thinking makes the reissue …

Books & Arts

Sheer genius

Books & Arts

Kill all the lawyers

Books & Arts

Silicon done good

Books & Arts

Star tech

Books & Arts

Life everlasting

Books & Arts

Lost dream

Books & Arts

Tools of the trade

Books & Arts

At one with the elements

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Who rocks the cradle...

Forum

Squandering our energies

Forum

Forum

A new forum bursts on the scene

Forum

Come out, wherever you are

Books & Arts

Out of Siberia

Books & Arts

Regulars

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Feedback

ONE SHOULD be wary of the eagerness of friends to help one out. An astronomy postgraduate at Cambridge was trying to find a Chinese version of the quote he wanted to put at the front of his thesis. In English, the quote is: "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." …

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