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16 August 1997

Issue 2095

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Sticking point

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Running ragged

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Taking life to bits

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What really killed the dinosaurs?

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No sex please

THE unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas leads a very conservative sex life. Ursula Goodenough of Washington University in St Louis and her colleagues have found that genes controlling mate recognition differ markedly in closely related species of Chlamydomonas.Meanwhile, non-sex genes have remained similar among all the species (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 94, …

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Stay out of the greenhouse

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Some fish have all the luck

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Lake gas

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Slime shield

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Manatee threat

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Yobbish genes

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Mail shots

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A dying fall

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Muscling in on motor memories

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Speed freaks

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Suspect results

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Virus hazard

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Fruit cocktail

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Everything in the garden's lovely

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Going for broke

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Keep off the grass

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I spy

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Close shave

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Picking holes in the net

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Superfreeway

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Sting in the tale for bees

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River of death

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Earth and fire

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Plutonium becomes a burning issue

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Armed cells launch twin attack on AIDS

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Clones unlimited

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Goat guardian

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The ice car cometh

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Hands off the world's hottest spot

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Fatal addition

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Sand safe

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Suckers for oxygen

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An office in the sunshine

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Dying for the cause

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Nomad's quest

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Unlekky in love

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Time fractals in the mind

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School for blood cells

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When the weeds grow

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Games whales play

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Strike a light and stand well back

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Fields of genes

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Opinion

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Editorial : Telling it big – Everyone loves a good story, especially with a cunning twist

WHAT do cold fusion and the extinction of the dinosaurs have in common? Both were ideas that seized the public imagination: one offered the possibility of limitless energy from a simple electrochemical cell, and the other a magnificent story of doom and catastrophe. Both appeared in the 1980s: the idea that a massive asteroid put …

Opinion

Features

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Sticking point

Cold fusion is alive and doing well in, of all places, the heart of the English countryside. In a small lead-lined room at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, behind protective glass and hidden among a tangled mass of pipes, is a small box. Inside, against all the odds, atomic nuclei are fusing at …

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Running ragged

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Taking life to bits

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What really killed the dinosaurs?

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Review : What tangled chains

Giant Molecules by Alexander Yu Grosberg and Alexei L. Khokhlov, Academic Press, £22.95, ISBN 0123041309 WHEN the Mars Pathfinder probe touched down on the Red Planet on 4 July, it used airbags to soften its impact. These airbags were made of Vectran, a high-tensile, polyester-based, liquid-crystal fibre. Modern life, whether in space or on Earth, …

Books & Arts

Review : Decisions, decisions

Books & Arts

Best sellers : from Bristol

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

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Forum : I'm not here right now

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Forum : Untainted by money

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Thistle diary :

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Antipodes : Red tape holds up Kiwi reforms

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Review : Coping womanfully

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Review : Dung in your dinner

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Review : Wonderful death

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Review : A quest for extinction

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Review : Elliptical talk

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Review : Off the cuff . . .

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Feedback

COMPUTERS around the world continue to unnerve Feedback's readers with peculiar error messages. Here is a new batch of examples. When Ian Chisholm was loading Microsoft Backup, he was told by Windows 95: "Warning! The data path specified, `C:\TEMP\', is invalid." Fair enough, he thought, but then the computer then went on to tell him: …

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