Issue 2067 | Magazine cover date: 1 February 1997

This week's magazine

1 February 1997

Issue 2067

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Cars that grow on trees - Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds <IT>Stephen Hill</IT>

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Scan : butterfly bounty

Opinion

Editorial : HIV down but not out - A TIDE of optimism has swept over AIDS researchers and people infected with HIV in the past six months. New "combination therapies" that attack the virus on two or three different fronts have worked well in clinical tria

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Cars that grow on trees - Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

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Cutting out stuttering

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Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

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Diamond curls

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Scan : butterfly bounty

VICTORIA has 129 species of butterfly. They are all listed in the Victorian Butterfly Database which has been put together by biologists David Crosby and Nigel Quirk , who have been collecting and studying butterflies for 50 years. The distribution and life cycle of each species is detailed in maps, photographs and text. The database, …

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Bytes : Genes on the Web

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Research: in the field : How fires spread

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Research: in the field : The pull of the pokies

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Bytes : Genie on the Web

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AustralAsian : Karl Kruszelnicki...downloaded

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Scan : from bears to beagles

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Technology : Flux helps metals achieve a touch of glass

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Technology : Black box's brainy helper could solve air crash riddles

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Technology : Plants gobble up waste explosives

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Technology : Safe alternative to banned bananas

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Technology : Starch strips bombers bare

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Science : Pouting whales are suckers for squid

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Technology : Seal for Chernobyl's cracked tomb

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Science : Quantum computers perk up with a cup of tea

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Science : Canada's cracking plate feels the Earth move

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Science : HIV drugs cannot revive extinct cells

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Science : Atom laser offers ultimate control

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Science : Losers get an attack of nerves

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Liquid lunch

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Muddy waters

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Space

Barren space wheat

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French beef

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A cow called Cindy

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Surf jam

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Space

Lost in space

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Science : Dawn raid on the ozone layer

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Alzheimer's scare casts cloud over gene therapy

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Dementia drugs hasten mental decline

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Small furry animals bounce back

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No need to panic about polio vaccine

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Space weather forecasters get it right

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No end in sight in the `human' mouse war

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Family planning by example

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US plan complicates the climate equation

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Striking a blow for France's past

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Thirsty meals that suck the world dry

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The Net benefits of learning from home

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Knowing where you are with military precision

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Don't believe the AIDS cure hype

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Opinion

Editorial : HIV down but not out - A TIDE of optimism has swept over AIDS researchers and people infected with HIV in the past six months. New "combination therapies" that attack the virus on two or three different fronts have worked well in clinical tria

A TIDE of optimism has swept over AIDS researchers and people infected with HIV in the past six months. New "combination therapies" that attack the virus on two or three different fronts have worked well in clinical trials. HIV has almost totally vanished from many patients' blood. Some have even risen, Lazarus-like, from their deathbeds …

Opinion

Features

Cars that grow on trees - Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

FORGET visions of 21st-century cars built from sleek, synthetic wonder materials. The car of the future could be moulded from cashew nut oil and hemp. And that's not all. In the boot could be a set of golf clubs built around jute fibres, nestling next to a tennis racket stiffened with coconut hair. And the …

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Cutting out stuttering

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Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

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Diamond curls

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Forum : India's roads to ruin

CALCUTTA is in big trouble. Some 2 million of its people live in poor insanitary dwellings. About 55 000 more eke out an existence on the pavements, beneath makeshift structures if they are lucky. These people often suffer terrible disease, and death from diarrhoeal illness is no stranger to them. But the many misfortunes of …

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FEEDBACK has tended to pooh-pooh the idea that civilisation as we know it will end on 1 January 2000 because computers won't be able to cope with the change of date. On the other hand, a report in the New Zealand Herald has made us think again. Production suddenly ground to a halt at the …

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This week's magazine

1 February 1997

On the cover

Cars that grow on trees - Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

Cutting out stuttering

Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

Diamond curls

Table of contents

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Scan : butterfly bounty

Random samples : Astronomy on ice

Changing places :

Bytes : Genes on the Web

Research: in the field : How fires spread

Research: in the field : Many a tear

Research: in the field : The pull of the pokies

Bytes : Genie on the Web

AustralAsian : Karl Kruszelnicki...downloaded

Scan : from bears to beagles

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Balloons lift skiers out of danger

Technology

Technology : Flux helps metals achieve a touch of glass

Technology

Technology : Black box's brainy helper could solve air crash riddles

Technology

Technology : Plants gobble up waste explosives

Technology

Technology : Safe alternative to banned bananas

Technology

Technology : Starch strips bombers bare

Science : Pouting whales are suckers for squid

Technology

Technology : Seal for Chernobyl's cracked tomb

Science : Quantum computers perk up with a cup of tea

Science : Canada's cracking plate feels the Earth move

Science : HIV drugs cannot revive extinct cells

Science : Atom laser offers ultimate control

Science : Losers get an attack of nerves

Liquid lunch

Muddy waters

Space

Barren space wheat

French beef

A cow called Cindy

Surf jam

Space

Lost in space

Science : Dawn raid on the ozone layer

Alzheimer's scare casts cloud over gene therapy

Dementia drugs hasten mental decline

Small furry animals bounce back

No need to panic about polio vaccine

Space weather forecasters get it right

No end in sight in the `human' mouse war

Family planning by example

US plan complicates the climate equation

Striking a blow for France's past

Thirsty meals that suck the world dry

The Net benefits of learning from home

Knowing where you are with military precision

Don't believe the AIDS cure hype

Opinion

Editorial : HIV down but not out - A TIDE of optimism has swept over AIDS researchers and people infected with HIV in the past six months. New "combination therapies" that attack the virus on two or three different fronts have worked well in clinical tria

Features

Cars that grow on trees - Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

Cutting out stuttering

Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

Diamond curls

More

Forum : India's roads to ruin

Thistle diary : Digital democracy and fluoride voters - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : The night of the green turtle - Ian Lowe finds nature is hard at work along the Queensland coast

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