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17 March 2001

Issue 2282

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Many moons

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Cruel to be kind

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You hum it and I'll find it

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Life

What women want

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Seas the initiative

The idea of encouraging the growth of sea life as a way of soaking up carbon dioxide has resurfaced in a patent by Michael Markels of Springfield, Virginia. A ship moves in a spiral pattern over deep water, dispersing fertiliser to create a bloom of phytoplankton. The plankton sink to the bottom of the ocean …

News

Technology

Cleaner images

News

Whales just want to have fun

News

Don't drink and hike

News

Easy to forget

News

Pass it on

News

Rocket plume

News

Hot stuff

News

Silky scaffolding

News

Compost your car

News

Orbiting cinema

News

Triumph for spin doctors

News

Suck it and see

News

Sniff out infections before you feel ill

News

Stop taking the tablets

News

Technology

In a glass of its own

News

Glow for it

News

No magic ballot

News

Death by natural causes

News

Green-faced apology

News

Keep dem bones strong

News

Life

When I see an elephant fly

News

Varuna, lord of the cosmos, joins the Solar System

News

Leaves saved plants from suffocation

News

Piece of the action

News

Realise your potential

News

It's not unusual

News

Fussy fish fake it

News

It's time to scrap the gas guzzlers

News

Resistance is futile

News

Purrfect pets

News

Technical hitch trips up gene revolutionaries

News

Eat your greens

News

Why we can't tell the wood from the trees

News

Imperfect harmony

News

Is polar meltdown just hot air?

News

Kill the music if you want good grades

News

Breeds apart

News

Kill the swill

News

Cows in clover

News

Life will find a way

News

Sounds alarming

News

Business as usual

News

Flirting with death

News

Punctured pride

News

Cloning babies

News

Opinion

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The dissent of Steele

THE recent summary dismissal of molecular biologist Ted Steele by the University of Wollongong raises two important issues. The first is the procedural question of how universities handle dissenting academics. The second is a growing concern about academic standards in the Australian university system. Most of the facts of the case are not in dispute. …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

True or False?

Opinion

Bits and chips

Opinion

Not now, Dr Miracle

Opinion

Features

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Many moons

THE WORLD beneath your feet is no more than 20 kilometres across, its gravity so weak that you could ride a bicycle up a ramp and into space. But the view of Saturn is breathtaking. It appears over twice as large in the sky as the full Moon does from Earth, and that's not including …

Features

Cruel to be kind

Features

You hum it and I'll find it

Features

Life

What women want

Features

More

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Still waters run deep

Introduction to Interactive Boundary Layer Theory by Ian Sobey, Oxford University Press, £45, ISBN 0198506759 Turbulent Flows by Stephen Pope, Cambridge University Press, £29.95, ISBN 0521598869 THE actions of fluids intrigue artists, engineers, biologists and physicists alike. Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of turbulent eddies testify as much. Practical topics include trivial events such as a …

Books & Arts

Pile 'em high

Books & Arts

A Branch in the Jungle

Books & Arts

Out of the Dirt

Books & Arts

Look to the Shell

Books & Arts

I am not a machine

Books & Arts

Threatened Birds of the World by BirdLife International

Books & Arts

The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology edited by Gunter Wagner

Books & Arts

A life's work

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ONE OF the structures shaken by the earthquake that struck Seattle last month was the Microsoft building. An insider tells us that when the tremor started, staff remained largely indifferent not only to the vibrations of the earthquake, but also to the klaxons and flashing lights of the alarm system—until, that is, they received this …

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The Last Word

Regulars

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