When hyenas kill their own: For many of Africa's spotted hyenas, life begins with a struggle to survive the murderous attacks of a twin sister
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The electric plastics show: The notion of plastics that conduct electricity - let alone emit light - still comes as a surprise. But industry has been quick to spot their potential and is forcing the pace of development says Karen Celia Fox
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Live crash from Jupiter - Astronomy is a frustrating business. You can spend years scanning the skies only to find something spectacular happens when your back is turned. This July, however, everything will be very, very different . . .
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High hopes for faster transit - City planners are desperate to unclog congested roads by luring us out of our cars and on to public transport. Enter the 'personal train' that could be running in Chicago by the year 2000
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Shock therapy returns
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Table of contents
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Science: A smashing start for life on Earth
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Science: Broken symmetry in the genetic code?
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Technology
Technology: Does a fate lie in store for videotape?
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Technology
Technology: Bank error not in your favour - lose Dollar 15 million
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Languages that help children to learn maths
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Electronic advocates fight for human rights
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Truth about teeth is found in trash
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Banana tree could feed hungry
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Lies, damned lies and slick graphics
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Naming the world's species is 'essential'
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Antarctic rocks could give clue to life on Mars
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'Rigid' cultures caught out by climate change
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Science: Damburst of humans flooded from Africa
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Science: Tough times bring out the best in blackbird fathers
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Science: Captive capuchins are talented tool makers
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Gay gene test 'inaccurate and immoral': At this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, the issues in the limelight ranged from gene mapping to the collapse of civilisations . . .
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And now a word from our lunar sponsor . . .
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Women's report neutered by government
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Foresight programme widens its horizons
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Is fishing to blame for starving seabirds?
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In pursuit of plaice with chips
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Ozone hole could be killing amphibians
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Troubled rebirth for French fast reactor
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Environment
Lemur mum breeds fresh hope
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Return to the Red Planet
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Pressure mounts to save Great Lakes
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Whalers change tack on southern sanctuary
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Opinion
Features
When hyenas kill their own: For many of Africa's spotted hyenas, life begins with a struggle to survive the murderous attacks of a twin sister
Features
The electric plastics show: The notion of plastics that conduct electricity - let alone emit light - still comes as a surprise. But industry has been quick to spot their potential and is forcing the pace of development says Karen Celia Fox
Features
Live crash from Jupiter - Astronomy is a frustrating business. You can spend years scanning the skies only to find something spectacular happens when your back is turned. This July, however, everything will be very, very different . . .
Features
High hopes for faster transit - City planners are desperate to unclog congested roads by luring us out of our cars and on to public transport. Enter the 'personal train' that could be running in Chicago by the year 2000
Features
Shock therapy returns
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Forum: Where dinosaurs fear to tread - Diane Calabrese on attempts to put flesh on some old bones
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Thistle Diary: Waste not, want not - and recycle - More activity from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Yes, but will it be fun? - Andy Coghlan finds out about William Waldegrave's latest educational gamble
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Review: Delphi in the New World
Books & Arts
Review: Is technology a blessing or a curse?
Books & Arts
Review: Scenes from a biological revolution
Books & Arts
Review: Baring the bones of a good story
Books & Arts
Review: A Domesday book of survival
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Review: Sex and the single yeast cell
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Review: All change for development
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Review: Angels on a quantum pinhead
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