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2 March 1996

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Unnatural evolution

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Unnatural evolution

Features
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Nattering on the net

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Bloodless crusaders

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Little waves, big squeeze

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Equation

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I HAVE just bought a new electronic clock and I have to put in the fraction of a second which elapses between updates of the clock's display. For example if I put in 8/13 then the clock's display will update at the following times after I start the clock:

News

Technology

Tougher materials mimic shellfish secrets

News

Technology

Chips last longer with heavy hydrogen

News

Technology

Microwaves target beating hearts among the rubble

News

Technology

How to turn paper into fuel

News

Avian divas sing for their lovers

News

Technology

Sinking feeling could save Pisa

News

Technology

Noisy dilemma over how to beat pirates

News

Technology

Netropolitan

News

Jumping genes reveal the secrets of flower power

News

Tiny umbrella keeps drugs safe

News

Sea change theory faces rocky ride

News

Flexing hydrogen bonds help water bend the rules

News

Self-building molecule wins place in the record books

News

Pulsating surprise at the heart of the Galaxy

News

Monkeys make the grade in maths

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Conquering hero couldn't see straight

News

Condom concord

News

Genetic rights

News

Organ shortage

News

US frost chills polar stations

News

Captain Birdseye plans award for friendly fisheries

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French greens do battle over leaky dump

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Is your rubbish too hot to handle?

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End of NASA's tether

News

Plutonium fears

News

The short exciting life of element 112

News

Hot ice could contaminate fish

News

Sugar pill holds promise for male contraceptive

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Private agencies could speed drug approval

News

British inventors go unarmed into US patent battles

News

Gene giants hold key to big bucks

News

Black tide engulfs marine reserves

News

A disaster by any other name

News

Opinion

New ÒÁÈ˾þÃ. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The devil's in the detail

THERE is no disputing that Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party and perhaps Britain's next Prime Minister, knows how to charm. Last week, when he delivered his first major speech on science at a lunch arranged by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, he was full of enthusiasm for all the right things. The country, …

Opinion

Coming clean about oil tankers

Opinion

Features

New ÒÁÈ˾þÃ. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Unnatural evolution

MONSTERS will roam post-apocalyptic Earth, transmogrified from today's familiar menagerie by toxic chemicals and megadoses of radiation. Japan's cities will spawn giant cockroaches, and mutant turtles will crawl from New York's sewers to prey on human flesh. Those comic book prophecies probably won't materialise, but the notion of noxious pollutants spewed out by the Earth's …

Features

Nattering on the net

Features

Bloodless crusaders

Features

Little waves, big squeeze

Features

More

New ÒÁÈ˾þÃ. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Down with placebolatry

IN THE temple of psychiatric research, there is no more sacred ritual than the randomised controlled trial. New psychiatric drugs prove themselves worthy to psychiatrists and drug-approval agencies by withstanding the rigours of such trials. Drugs companies design the ritual, psychiatric researchers perform it, and the highest deity in the researchers' pantheon – the placebo …

Forum

An exercise in political licence

Forum

Wildlife special

Books & Arts

Salty tales

Books & Arts

Women on the edge of time

Books & Arts

In the beginning was the word

Books & Arts

Pricey terror

Books & Arts

Apocalypse postponed

Books & Arts

Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and its survival

Books & Arts

Counting on fiction

Books & Arts

And the answer is …

Books & Arts

Spirit and place

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Washington DC

Books & Arts

Up a creek without a paddle?

Forum

Collected works: Takes a look at fiction

Books & Arts

Outwitting the dinosaurs

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE Evening Standard recently published a letter which contained the distressing claim that people have been listening in on digital cellphone conversations for two years now. While this may well turn out to be just another heard-it-from-a-man-I-met-in-the-pub story, if not, it shakes the cellphone industry to its roots. Admittedly, both Cellnet and Vodafone tried for …

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