Up, Up and away to the beginning of time: Balloons that float to the very edge of the atmosphere are giving astronomers the most detailed view yet of the radiation echoing down from the earliest years of the Universe
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Milstar: mission impossible: The US Air Force is building a satellite communications network designed to work even during a nuclear attack. But with the Cold War now over is this costly system really necessary
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Hackers Code: So why did computer hackers forsake their terminals for a weekend in New York City?
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How apartheid's violence lives on
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TB exposure revealed in a blood test
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How to turn spam into cash on the Internet
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Sleeping giant at the centre of the galaxy
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Flash dads make fitter kids
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Early humans went hunting, gathering and fishing
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Dyslexia gene lurks in chromosome's `black hole'
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`Black smokers' multiply on ocean floor
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Digital tapping
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Battle for Brazilian mahogany: One of the world's most beautiful woods could disappear from the market within 15 years, say forestry scientists, the latest attempt to impose strict controls on logging
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Torrid sex scenes puzzle octopus experts
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Ocean convulsions
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Contraceptive diet
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Broken promise?
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Prize greenhorn of the forest
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Healthy chips
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Informer's reward
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Mercury caught out over free calls
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Air of illusion in forest park
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Eastern Europe heads for smoking catastrophe
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Dinosaurs made a big impression in Portugal
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Whose element is it anyway?
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AIDS epidemic forces Third World to test vaccines
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Einstein's second thoughts about general relativity
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Lasting fame for captor of fleeting ions
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Ground rules for the games nations play
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Crystal maze men share Nobel
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Milk hormone data bottled up for years
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Gummer leaves environment agency toothless
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Up, Up and away to the beginning of time: Balloons that float to the very edge of the atmosphere are giving astronomers the most detailed view yet of the radiation echoing down from the earliest years of the Universe
Features
Milstar: mission impossible: The US Air Force is building a satellite communications network designed to work even during a nuclear attack. But with the Cold War now over is this costly system really necessary
Features
Hackers Code: So why did computer hackers forsake their terminals for a weekend in New York City?
Features
Humans
How apartheid's violence lives on
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The heat is on to find a solution to climate change: Greenhouse '94 in Wellington, New Zealand
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No Way Back! The Second Law of Thermodynamics limits the efficiency of power stations and car engines, predicts the fate of the Universe, provides an arrow of time, and sets conditions on the evolution and continued existence of life
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Fly me to the Moon: A whimsical lunar journey
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Polluted waters, dangerous bends and rising sap: More comment from Westminster
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Millennial Winners
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Does a brighter future beckon?: Our genetic inheritance should influence educational policy
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Why hormones are a political issue: Sexual Chemistry by Ellen Grant, Cedar, pp 346, £5.99 pbk Raging Hormones by Gail Vines, University of California Press in the US, Virago in Britain, pp 184, $25 hbk, $13/£6.99 pbk
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Spectacular art of the masses: Migrations: Wildlife in Motion Photographs by Art Wolfe, text by Barbara Sleeper, Beyond Words, Hillsboro, Oregon, pp 167, $60
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Molecular sex and free radicals: Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier by Philip Ball, Princeton University Press, pp 376, £19.95
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Beware the fearsome Prohaptors, my son: Chaos In Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World by Clifford A. Pickover, St Martin's Press, pp 302, $29.95
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