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‘Where does the genome project go from here?

The mystery of motor neuron disease: For more than 50 years this disease has baffled epidemiologists and physicians alike. But the mysterious illness may be about to yield its secrets to molecular genetics

Keeping the lid on nuclear arms:

Recreating the birth of the Universe: Theories of the fireball out of which the Universe was born may soon be tested in the laboratory by experiments which recreate the conditions of the big bang in with a series of ‘little bangs’

Medicines from the rainforest

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News

Astronomers focus minds on survival

A reddy-made recipe for tomato paste

Who fuelled Iraq’s nuclear programme?

Gloomy future for British chips

Export controls on ‘works of nature’ rejected

Flying to Saturn on a shoestring

Secret payments cloud Brazil’s nuclear policy

Why avoiding AIDS hot spots is not enough

Dutch lack appetite for genetically ‘altered’ foods

Teeth crumble under snack attack

‘Stomping foot’ stalks the Urals

Popularity chokes the source of the Ganges

Australia’s metropolis rises from the swamps

Animals bear brunt of pesticide poisonings

Iran’s floating oil stores threaten British beaches

Energy standards worry boilermakers

Cracking up

Power cuts

Terminator robot comes to sticky end

Nuclear help

Clean canyon

Anorexic men

Cost of Chernobyl

Science: Is Australian fossil the ancestor of all insects?

Science: Sahara grows, but unsteadily

Science: Chilean meteorite sheds light on asteroids

Science: How to clean up blood

Science: Lizards navigate off the top of their heads

Science: Faults at fault

Science: Is coral bleaching caused by global warming?

Science: Genetic test screens for bowel cancer

Science: Rocks contradict weather records of warming trends

Technology

Technology: Electronic dream of keeping German Deutsch

Technology

Technology: ‘Victorian’ polymers bring statues to life

Technology

Technology: Testing the waters from outer space

Technology

Technology: A change of elements takes lasers out of the red

Technology

Technology: British computers get a hot line to the US

Technology

Technology: Levitation drives you up the wall

Technology

Technology: Why standing room only puts rail passengers at risk

Opinion

Comment: Dangers for nuclear research

Comment: Genes and the general good

Features

‘Where does the genome project go from here?

Results are pouring in from the genome project, and the pace can only quicken as researchers plug into a central database. Can society cope with the findings?

The mystery of motor neuron disease: For more than 50 years this disease has baffled epidemiologists and physicians alike. But the mysterious illness may be about to yield its secrets to molecular genetics

Keeping the lid on nuclear arms:

Recreating the birth of the Universe: Theories of the fireball out of which the Universe was born may soon be tested in the laboratory by experiments which recreate the conditions of the big bang in with a series of ‘little bangs’

Medicines from the rainforest

More

Talking Point: Risk perception and the real world

Review: Sizing up the missing links

Review: A Wright tale

Review: The art of asking the right questions

Review: Little waste one hundred years ago

Review: Africa’s troubled history

Review: Morals meets medicine

Review: A swim in the sea of knowledge

Forum: Sellafield is not Sweden – A facility that might lead to some difficulty

Forum: Taking aim at the moving targets – Will the revised national curriculum interest youngsters in science?

Forum: Goodbye to the heart bypass / A look back to where the future was

Forum: Time to ban the bans / Reaching breaking point with embargoes

Thistle Diary: Acid reigns over Europe – Comment from Westminster

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