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• Zzzzzzzz

  25 September 1999

  We have to do it every night but nobody knows why

• Easy loader

  25 September 1999

• Ace in the hole

  25 September 1999

• Guiding light

  25 September 1999

  Megaflares will point the way to distant solar systems

• It's a sex thing

  25 September 1999

  Different chemistry makes males and females angry

• Tests were skimped on space station parts

  25 September 1999

• A dangerous age

  25 September 1999

  Africa's safe-sex advice should target girls and older men

• There's something in the water

  25 September 1999

• Alien Earths

  25 September 1999

  Have our planet's alter egos popped up in outer space?

• The right strokes for some folks

  25 September 1999

• Never forget

  25 September 1999

  Old brains can be helped to form new memories

• Hands on

  25 September 1999

  Robonaut takes the risks so you don't have to

• Space healing

  25 September 1999

• Lying in wait

  25 September 1999

• Tune in to the past

  25 September 1999

• Irresistible odour

  25 September 1999

• Plankton thrive in the wake of chaos

  25 September 1999

• Going up…

  25 September 1999

• Farmers in the firing line

  25 September 1999

• Invasion of the indies

  25 September 1999

• Setting sail to keep watch for solar storms

  25 September 1999

• Chemical brothers

  25 September 1999

  Robots can make do with a head full of goo

• Bitten to death

  25 September 1999

• Slipping schedules

  25 September 1999

• Unwanted guest

  25 September 1999

• Coming a cropper

  25 September 1999

  Government blunders are putting engineered crop tests at risk

• False trails

  25 September 1999

  You can't tell a dinosaur from its tracks

• Keep your head down...

  25 September 1999

• Mean machines

  25 September 1999

  Truly efficient turbines would slash greenhouse emissions

• Twinkle toes

  25 September 1999

• Time internal

  25 September 1999

• Night moves

  25 September 1999

• Tragedy behind bars

  25 September 1999

  Is drug abuse, not brutality, behind some deaths in custody?

• Bill's teletoys

  25 September 1999

• Cool running

  25 September 1999

  Aviation fuel is best served well chilled

• Folic fix

  25 September 1999

• That was close . . .

  25 September 1999

• Twos and threes

  25 September 1999

• In hot water

  25 September 1999

• Washington diary

  25 September 1999

  Andreas Frew reports

• Kidology

  25 September 1999

• Reforming tumour cells

  25 September 1999

• . . . . .

  25 September 1999

• Trunk terror

  25 September 1999

• Seeds of doubt

  25 September 1999

• Just so stories

  25 September 1999

• Side effects

  25 September 1999

• Death on ice

  25 September 1999

• Worst among equals

  25 September 1999

• The last word

  25 September 1999

• Feedback

  25 September 1999

• Just good friends

  25 September 1999

• Net loss

  25 September 1999

• Letter11

  25 September 1999

• Perfect time

  25 September 1999

• Bestsellers from Oxford

  25 September 1999

• Missionary fervour

  25 September 1999

• Hidden history

  25 September 1999

• Whales off the hook

  25 September 1999

• Sickly swine

  25 September 1999

  Wild boar are spreading disease to Europe's pig farms

• Lies, damned lies. . .

  25 September 1999

  Statistics can fool those looking for trends in our weather

• Hydrotherapy

  25 September 1999

• Flipping formats, Batman

  25 September 1999

• Perchance to learn

  25 September 1999

• E versus PCBs

  25 September 1999

• Shedding the years

  25 September 1999

• Follow my leader

  25 September 1999

• Afterburn

  25 September 1999

• Inside story

  25 September 1999

• Little geniuses

  25 September 1999

• Universal tales

  25 September 1999

• Shock waves

  25 September 1999

• Fonder memories

  25 September 1999

• Art of the possible

  25 September 1999

  Imagine being environment minister of Ecuador. Your country has oil, gold, some of the world's most fertile land, and the jewel of the Galápagos islands. Despite this, two-thirds of your population lives in poverty and 40 per cent of t

• caught on camera

  25 September 1999

• To the virtual barricades

  18 September 1999

• Learning under the knife

  18 September 1999

• Playing for real

  18 September 1999

• Shapely mutts

  18 September 1999

• Bacterial blast

  18 September 1999

• Console browser

  18 September 1999

• Glowing report

  18 September 1999

• Killer on the loose

  18 September 1999

• Little devils

  18 September 1999

• Black holes light up the Universe

  18 September 1999

• Lost protein

  18 September 1999

• Bad breeding

  18 September 1999

• Up and away

  18 September 1999

• Is anybody out there?

  18 September 1999

  Are we really alone? Though this question has long been asked, only now can we hope to answer it

• Life force

  18 September 1999

• Young again

  18 September 1999

• Just slow down

  18 September 1999

• Plant power

  18 September 1999

• Hormonal recall

  18 September 1999

• Power failure

  18 September 1999

• The comeback killer

  18 September 1999

• Older and wiser

  18 September 1999

• Pooled genes

  18 September 1999

• DDT lives on

  18 September 1999

• Rocket revival

  18 September 1999

• All bets are off

  18 September 1999

• Mix and match

  18 September 1999

• Editorial : If at first you don't succeed . . .

  18 September 1999

• Editorial : Friendly fire - Have stray bullets from the "Frankenfood" affair killed off a force for good?

  18 September 1999

• Card sharps get easy ride in Cyberspace

  18 September 1999

• Engage dark matter!

  18 September 1999

• First catch me

  18 September 1999

• Intel gets the picture

  18 September 1999

• Help for quitters

  18 September 1999

• Sounds good

  18 September 1999

• On ice

  18 September 1999

• It's a wrap

  18 September 1999

• Heard it on the grapevine

  18 September 1999

• Ultracool atoms caught acting strangely

  18 September 1999

• Geochemical markers

  18 September 1999

• Westminster diary

  18 September 1999

• Swapping partners

  18 September 1999

• The pattern of the future

  18 September 1999

• Feedback

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Correction:

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Get real

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Pork chop

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Profit from fear

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Potato prey

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Cat's timing

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Cosmic engineers

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Testing Ariane

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Training terrorists?

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Language explosion

  18 September 1999

• Letters : A priori position

  18 September 1999

• Letters : Banging the drum

  18 September 1999

• The last word

  18 September 1999

• from San Fancisco

  18 September 1999

• Virtually dead

  18 September 1999

• Predictions past

  18 September 1999

• Woad back in vogue

  18 September 1999

• Dead and buried

  18 September 1999

• Slumber's end

  18 September 1999

• Telltale signs

  18 September 1999

• Caught in the crossfire

  18 September 1999

• Wily old spiders know a trick or two

  18 September 1999

• Third eye

  18 September 1999

• Kinder chemo

  18 September 1999

• Let's learn Lincos

  18 September 1999

• Alien haven

  18 September 1999

• Task list

  18 September 1999

• Let's get personal

  18 September 1999

• Galveston, oh, Galveston

  18 September 1999

• Getting antsy

  18 September 1999

• Key decisions

  18 September 1999

• Endless voyage

  18 September 1999

• Waterworld

  18 September 1999

• Defender of the planet

  18 September 1999

• Health check

  11 September 1999

  Britain wants to be sure that modified foods have no ill effects

• Sun takes on Microsoft

  11 September 1999

• Daily dose

  11 September 1999

• Explosive wipes

  11 September 1999

• Natural killer

  11 September 1999

• Double dawn

  11 September 1999

  Ancient Chinese writings tell of the day that dawn broke twice

• France's finest rediscover their lowly roots

  11 September 1999

• Creative burst

  11 September 1999

  A violent blast of radiation spawned the planets

• Waiting to exhale

  11 September 1999

• Will robots learn to build their own future?

  11 September 1999

• Take that, you nasty little parasite

  11 September 1999

• Collapsing case

  11 September 1999

• No free launches

  11 September 1999

• Will wild chimp pee tell all about HIV?

  11 September 1999

• Left standing

  11 September 1999

• Gates shut out

  11 September 1999

• Glimmer of hope for CD unity

  11 September 1999

• Hole power

  11 September 1999

  The secret of a supereffective optical fibre is quite a surprise

• Boom and bust

  11 September 1999

  Our Galaxy has had a glittering, turbulent past

• Organised killers

  11 September 1999

  How the most deadly cancers go about their business

• Thin time for pigs

  11 September 1999

  Eating disorders are not just affecting people

• Big boned

  11 September 1999

• Who owns cloning?

  11 September 1999

• Polished performance

  11 September 1999

  A robotic butler from Japan knows who's who and what's what

• Drug-free hens

  11 September 1999

• Charge of the light battery brigade

  11 September 1999

• Busier than ever

  11 September 1999

  Fighting disease has been added to bees' duties

• Reading genes

  11 September 1999

• Tiff over GIFs sparks Net uproar

  11 September 1999

• A very unholy war

  11 September 1999

• It's a small Web

  11 September 1999

  Finding your way through the online jungle need never be so daunting again

• How time turns memory from white to black

  11 September 1999

• Tropical killer flies north

  11 September 1999

• The gentle touch

  11 September 1999

  Why replace broken genes when you can fix them?

• Fat chance

  11 September 1999

• Come clean

  11 September 1999

• Early warning

  11 September 1999

• Leaky seas

  11 September 1999

  The world's oceans seem to be slowly draining away

• Spot the mistake

  11 September 1999

• Saving the raw prawn

  11 September 1999

  Ian Lowe catches the freshest work on the Reef

• Westminster diary

  11 September 1999

  Comment from Tam Dalyell

• Different strokes

  11 September 1999

• Gould's gold

  11 September 1999

• Crystal gazer

  11 September 1999

• Desert tales

  11 September 1999

• Easily licked

  11 September 1999

• A developing problem

  11 September 1999

• Staring at the Sun

  11 September 1999

• Rice risk

  11 September 1999

• Mental health

  11 September 1999

• Hunting for jobs

  11 September 1999

• Take your pic

  11 September 1999

• . . . . .

  11 September 1999

• Bacteria bias

  11 September 1999

• The last word

  11 September 1999

• Feedback

  11 September 1999

• Dead fish in the Danube

  11 September 1999

• Low Earth obit

  11 September 1999

• Irresistable impulses

  11 September 1999

• Operation Eradicate

  11 September 1999

• Bad housekeeping

  11 September 1999

• Macho males

  11 September 1999

• No pain, big gain

  11 September 1999

• A hole is born

  11 September 1999

• Putting it about

  11 September 1999

• Eyes on the sky

  11 September 1999

• The planet that hums

  11 September 1999

• Start digging . . .

  11 September 1999

• The glass menagerie

  11 September 1999

  PALE and ghostlike, they float gently inside their womb of shining glass. Each has the snout, feet and prickly coat of a hedgehog, yet none is quite ready for the rough and tumble of woodland life. They are just three of the thousands of em

• from Washington

  11 September 1999

• Bending gender

  11 September 1999

  Sex differences are in the eye of the beholder, says Marc Breedlove

• Atrocity stories

  11 September 1999

• The dope on silicon

  11 September 1999

• Feeling is believing

  11 September 1999

• The African queen

  11 September 1999

• Madness on wheels

  11 September 1999

• Polluting plants

  04 September 1999

• Nodding off

  04 September 1999

• Think drink

  04 September 1999

  Dutch courage is all in the mind

• Brain boost

  04 September 1999

  A new breed of clever mice reveals how neurons pull together

• Warning lights

  04 September 1999

  Now there's a more flexible way of detecting illicit plutonium

• The bigger picture

  04 September 1999

  Peripheral vision holds the key to safer and better flying

• Wired taste

  04 September 1999

• Far from fragrant

  04 September 1999

  Disguising nasty smells could damage your health

• Pure and clear

  04 September 1999

  Lake Onondago will test the mercury munchers

• Playing safe

  04 September 1999

  Crops modified using a new method can't spread resistance

• Hot solution

  04 September 1999

• All that junk

  04 September 1999

• It's a pig's life

  04 September 1999

• No quick fix

  04 September 1999

  It's more puzzling than ever why addicts need a bigger hit

• Brisk swimmers

  04 September 1999

• Pacemakers that run on light

  04 September 1999

• Basic instinct

  04 September 1999

• What a picture

  04 September 1999

• Safe talk

  04 September 1999

• Received wisdom

  04 September 1999

• Nothing to shout about

  04 September 1999

• Sexism takes its toll

  04 September 1999

• Divided roles

  04 September 1999

• STDs in cyberspace

  04 September 1999

• Bug bites early

  04 September 1999

• X-ray vision

  04 September 1999

• Dolly's mixture

  04 September 1999

  Clones are not the perfect replicas we thought

• Back from the dead

  04 September 1999

• Them bones

  04 September 1999

• Bugs in your hair

  04 September 1999

• What a blow

  04 September 1999

• Hair route

  04 September 1999

• The heat was on

  04 September 1999

  Only the coolest plants got out of the Triassic alive

• Together again

  04 September 1999

• Gamblers know when to cash in

  04 September 1999

• Indonesia primed to go up in smoke

  04 September 1999

• The cruellest irony

  04 September 1999

  We may have to think the unthinkable about HIV and AIDS

• Fantastic voyager

  04 September 1999

  Ben Iannotta meets the man who dreams of flying through deep space on sails built from hot plasma

• Come on down

  04 September 1999

• A right to play

  04 September 1999

• Salty summer

  04 September 1999

• No apocalypse

  04 September 1999

• Risky trials

  04 September 1999

• Island isolation

  04 September 1999

• . . . . .

  04 September 1999

• Fear of flying

  04 September 1999

• The road to safety

  04 September 1999

  Ian Lowe visits the workplace

• Westminster Diary

  04 September 1999

  Comment from Tam Dalyell

• Photographing death

  04 September 1999

  Long-dead beasts are emerging from dusty museum galleries

• Hairy theory

  04 September 1999

• Not so hot

  04 September 1999

• The Last Word

  04 September 1999

• Feedback

  04 September 1999

• Bump and boinng

  04 September 1999

• Water sport

  04 September 1999

• What makes up the mind?

  04 September 1999

• from Melbourne

  04 September 1999

• Watery grave

  04 September 1999

• Short straw

  04 September 1999

• Own goal

  04 September 1999

• Toy atom

  04 September 1999

• Jam paranoia

  04 September 1999

• Fossil sheds new light on ammonites

  04 September 1999

• Waiting for NASA

  04 September 1999

• Canada's ice man

  04 September 1999

• Too little sleep

  04 September 1999

• ET was here

  04 September 1999

  Did microbes build high-rise apartments on Mars?

• Feeling just fine

  04 September 1999

• Last days of Mir

  04 September 1999

  What is it like to be the last foreign astronaut to come aboard a decaying Soviet-built space station flying around Earth at 28 000 kilometres an hour-with a history of fires, malfunctions, chemical leaks, supply ships turning up late, and

• The race is on...

  04 September 1999

• Hanging by a whisker

  04 September 1999

  David Baker celebrates Mir's capacity to survive disasters

• Dad's tale

  04 September 1999

• On the edge

  04 September 1999

• Not again!

  04 September 1999

• Estimating oil

  04 September 1999