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News

Technology: ‘Gene gun’ aims at Parkinson’s

Quark sightings?

Woodpecker pact

Tide of optimism ebbs over underwater windmill

Technology: Dutch stem tide with floating flood gates

Science: Gambling on the wrong numbers from Monte Carlo

Science: Dynamic galaxies in unsettled states

Science: Canadian parents desire more sons

Science: Antibodies crack down on cocaine

Junk art all washed up

Technology: Vaccine goes live on the fish farm

Technology: Gene cloning picks up something nasty on the beach

Technology: Treated sheets help hospitals ward of bacteria

Technology: US gamesters dream of Genie

Science: Supernova sends shockwaves through astronomy

Patents: Longer lasting loaves

Patents: Play it again

Satellites join the hunt for the tiny vine slayer

Bad blood in Europe over payment to donors

Navy steps up Operation Clamsaver

Russia provides fetal tissue for American transplants

Condoms spurned despite fear of AIDS

Army retreats on AIDS vaccine trial

Balanced muscles kick injury into touch

Competition threatens British labs

Cable TV company plans fibre-optic data network

Plutonium missing after Tomsk blast

Patents: Souped up

Clash of interests at UN food watchdog

Comment: Noble motives?

Comment: Sex ‘n’ condoms in the USA

Mission to Mars comes down to Earth

Kill abadger, save a cow?: Badgers will continuue to be shot under a new plan to control bovine tuberculosis in British cattle. But recent research points to less brutal alternatives

Reeling with success

Chemical imbalance

Scotland’s HIV centre

TV games

Letters: Sound query

Forum: Death on our hands – Donald Gould considers the murderous ways of human animals

Forum: Soggy tomatoes and bumps on the head – Jeremy Burgess questions some effects of this century’s most significant discovery

Review: Going Going . . .

Letters: Intelligence strikes

Letters: Accountancy rules

Letters: Scientific proof

Letters: Scientific proof

Feedback

Thistle Diary: Passing of a great panjandrum – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: Genetic staircase

Letters: Seeing the light

Letters: Old Romans

Review: The uninhabitants speak out

Patents: Court battle joined over video patent

Patents: Radio alarm

Technology: TV sets standard

Technology: Electric tankers to curb oil slicks

Engineering the therapies of tomorrow: Biotechnology, genetic engineering’s dazzling infant, is poised on the brink of an exciting future as it protagonists search for new routes to drugs

Genome on the production line

To catch a killer gene: Researchers knew 10 years ago that the genetic defect that causes Huntington’s disease lay somewhere on chromosome 4. Last month, after a succession of false alarms, they finally found the gene

Review: A pioneer’s cry for the Moon

Review: The future of futures past and present

Review: Humanity’s evolution through time and space

Letters: Stormy weather

Letters: Tilting at windmills

Letters: Blue Flashes

Letters: Blue flashes

Letters: Science careers

Letters: Science careers

Letters: In the fast lane

Magnetic balancing act

Patents Information

DNA’s stroke of genius

Opinion

CSIRO meets the locals

More

Academy aims at a primary target

Seen at the crime

Wheat bran ferments a change in diet

How to live off the fat of the fruit

Big Ben’s rumbles are seen but not heard

Weaning farmers off chemicals

Rare eye disease traced back to 1700

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