Issue 1989 | Magazine cover date: 5 August 1995

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5 August 1995

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Features

Bonding on the molecular building site

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Enigma: No. 834 Square root of seven

Opinion

Peace on the high seas?

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Bonding on the molecular building site

Features

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

Features

All wired up and raring to go

Features

Happiness is a magnet

Features

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Enigma: No. 834 Square root of seven

THIS week I have replaced every letter of the alphabet by a digit. Of course, that means that some digits may represent several different letters, but any particular letter is replaced by the same digit throughout. With my particular use of the digits you will find that each of the following seven: TWO THREE FOUR …

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Viral double whammy triggers cancers

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TB epidemics bring a hundred years of suffering

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Technology

Making semiconductors out of thin air

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Technology

No more hanging on the telephone

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Technology

Poisoners enlisted to fight plague

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Technology

Netropolitan – Terrorism

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Technology

Netropolitan – Mad science

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Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

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Technology

Say cheese … the camera's listening

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Technology

Rocket shocks bolster rig against North Sea

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Technology

Go play in the virtual traffic …

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Technology

Is that a hanky in your pocket?

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Indian Ocean floor cracks up under the strain

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Antarctic glaciers keep their cool

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Smart traffic spies have US covered

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Could Parkinson's patients get help at the brain bank?

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The day the aliens failed to land …

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Shuttles grounded

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Guiding missiles

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May the best robot win

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Funding falls

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Missing sperm

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Monterey mystery

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Will Saint Michel's tide ever turn?

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Little Foot stumbles into the crossfire

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Cosmic burps solve heavy problem

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Humpback whales lean to the right

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'Miracle' jab makes fat mice thin

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The mysterious case of the wobbly possum

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Last chance for Scotland's shrinking bogs

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Observations face yet another review

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Doomed Somalis saved with special diet

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Cutbacks in aid rebound on US

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Tobacco giant 'studied addiction'

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Tough treaty to police global fisheries

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Opinion

Peace on the high seas?

RECENT history makes it hard to believe that the nations of the world are capable of coming together and working out a rational set of principles to manage and conserve the fisheries of the high seas. But this week there is a faint hope that this may happen. The basic problem is that too many …

Opinion

Features

Bonding on the molecular building site

MAKING new materials has traditionally been a matter of good cookery. Choose your ingredients, mix them carefully, pop them in the oven at the right temperature and the result – if you are lucky – is a new plastic, ceramic, semiconductor, superconductor, or whatever. But for a new generation of materials, this mix and bake …

Features

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

Features

All wired up and raring to go

Features

Happiness is a magnet

Features

Engineers tap water as greatest problem

I'VE had water on the brain this week – both freshwater and seawater. Managing these resources is proving difficult for Australia. According to what I've been reading, attitudes must change. Reforms are overdue. Let's start with freshwater. Forget the current account deficit or the indiscretions of Arthur Tunstall, the most urgent problem facing Australia according …

Forum

Ozone, sand and oral histories

Forum

We shall not be moved …

Forum

If it's so damned safe, test it in Paris

Forum

Reality really

Books & Arts

The sea, sea

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

Flash that shield

Books & Arts

Space balls

Books & Arts

See the deeps

Books & Arts

When once we were fish

Books & Arts

Ovay? Ovee? Oover?

Books & Arts

Happy 60th

Books & Arts

Down in the woods, something stirs

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

WE wonder who was responsible for drafting the Department of the Environment's report How do you want to live?, which was published in 1972. Whoever it was must have had a strange sense of humour, an inordinate love of poetry or a deep dislike of the Department of Transport, with which the DoE was forging …

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This week's magazine

5 August 1995

On the cover

Bonding on the molecular building site

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

All wired up and raring to go

Happiness is a magnet

Table of contents

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Enigma: No. 834 Square root of seven

Viral double whammy triggers cancers

TB epidemics bring a hundred years of suffering

Technology

Making semiconductors out of thin air

Technology

No more hanging on the telephone

Technology

Poisoners enlisted to fight plague

Technology

Netropolitan – Terrorism

Technology

Netropolitan – Mad science

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

Technology

Say cheese … the camera's listening

Technology

Rocket shocks bolster rig against North Sea

Technology

Go play in the virtual traffic …

Technology

Is that a hanky in your pocket?

Indian Ocean floor cracks up under the strain

Antarctic glaciers keep their cool

Smart traffic spies have US covered

Could Parkinson's patients get help at the brain bank?

The day the aliens failed to land …

Shuttles grounded

Guiding missiles

May the best robot win

Funding falls

Missing sperm

Monterey mystery

Will Saint Michel's tide ever turn?

Little Foot stumbles into the crossfire

Cosmic burps solve heavy problem

Humpback whales lean to the right

'Miracle' jab makes fat mice thin

The mysterious case of the wobbly possum

Last chance for Scotland's shrinking bogs

Observations face yet another review

Doomed Somalis saved with special diet

Cutbacks in aid rebound on US

Tobacco giant 'studied addiction'

Tough treaty to police global fisheries

Opinion

Peace on the high seas?

Features

Bonding on the molecular building site

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

All wired up and raring to go

Happiness is a magnet

More

Engineers tap water as greatest problem

Ozone, sand and oral histories

We shall not be moved …

If it's so damned safe, test it in Paris

Reality really

The sea, sea

Bestsellers from London

Collected works

Flash that shield

Space balls

See the deeps

When once we were fish

Ovay? Ovee? Oover?

Happy 60th

Down in the woods, something stirs

Regulars

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