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28 August 1999

Issue 2201

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Cooking with qubits

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Rocks in a hard place

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Winging it

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A black hole ate my planet

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News

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The conquest of the few

BRONZE-AGE men in Japan had lower sperm counts than the race of people who succeeded them, according to researchers from Japan's Tokushima University. Yutaka Nakabori and his colleagues took sperm samples from 198 men and categorised them into Jomon-type and Yayoi-type, based on their genetic similarity to the two races of ancient Japanese people. The …

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Hiss off

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Feed me

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Rotten business

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Space cadets

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Radioactive bypass

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Battling drug

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Love it or hate it

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Cyber-warriors menace Indonesian government

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Patient pups wait for a turn at a teat

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Strangely slow

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Sucked in

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Killer cousins

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Time flies

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Technology

Geek tragedy

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Heartening

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Where next?

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Getting greener

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Take care

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Deep in the coal mine something stirred

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Recipe for pure water

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Spoilt appetite

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Freak waves threaten Europe's coastline

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Changing faces

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Smash bang wallop crunch

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Twinkle twinkle...

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A taste for tadpole

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When getting intimate can be dangerous

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Uprooted

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Deleting Darwin

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Nipah ban

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Dust bugs

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You've got mail…read it while you can

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Racing mail

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Technology

Chemical cut

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Technology

Older and cheaper

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Technology

Flying microwaves

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Seeing red

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Body builder

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The wrong mice

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Total repair

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Should every office have one?

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A fine kettle of fish

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Is Istanbul next?

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Blood scare

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Opinion

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Smarter than a photocopier

The crowds of up to 20 000 at the Olympic basketball and gymnastics competitions next year probably won't notice Australia's most advanced solar power generator above their heads on the roof of Sydney's new SuperDome at Homebush Bay. Construction of the 70 kilowatt installation is due to be completed this week. What is significant about …

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Happy dreams?

Opinion

Washington diary

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They came from within

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Class talk

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I'm thinking . . .

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No time to waste

Opinion

Features

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Cooking with qubits

RAYMOND LAFLAMME'S computer sits in a low, unassuming building at the heart of Los Alamos National Labs in the high deserts of New Mexico. No more than a kilometre away is Blue Mountain, a Department of Defense computer the size of small office block that last year claimed the title of the world's fastest computing …

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Rocks in a hard place

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Winging it

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A black hole ate my planet

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Love and light

An odd genre, technoromance, but try City of Light, Lauren Belfer's novel about the electrifying of Buffalo, New York. The monumental task, told through the words of a pioneering teacher, was accomplished using the Niagara Falls for power. Published by Sceptre, £10, ISBN 0340748419.

Books & Arts

Are you mad?

Books & Arts

Metamorphoses

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In the beginning

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from Cambridge

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What dunnit?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

AEROPLANE crashes, it turns out, are surprisingly good for your mental health. Gary Capobianco and Thanos Patelis, two American psychologists, compared 15 crash survivors with a control group of frequent fliers who hadn't crashed. They found that the survivors were less prone to anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. "The psychological wellbeing of airplane crash survivors …

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