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Big squeeze for video: You may never want to record the 500 programmes on offer from your local cable television company. But whether you do or not, the technology will soon be available

Justice at last for the dodo

Earth

The climate conundrum: Chill warnings from Greenland

The perils of planting pesticides: Natural toxins from soil bacteria were once hailed as benign pesticides. But transplanting their genes into crops could backfire

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News

Norway threatened with sanctions over whales

All quiet on the Martian front . . .

Russia’s space treasures go under the hammer

Surprise illness halts gene therapy trial

. . . while Britain bids to use ‘essential’ ozone eaters

Germany unveils plans to cut greenhouse gases . . .

Government ‘minders’ for opposition visits

The biggest telescope in the world

US ‘helpline’ for waste problems

Mini-gene injection prevents muscle-wasting disease

Breast cancer finding sparks insurance fears

Why girls see ghouls under the bed

Back through the nests of time

Call for checks on official databases

Shoe shock

Sculpture rises from the ash

Vaccine ‘gift’

Coast concern

Water cleared

No network now?

Keeping rubbish rotten to the core: A new generation of massive rubbish dumps in the US is being designed to keep water out. But research suggests that keeping refuse wet may speed decay and minimise pollution

Science: Do genes jog the body’s immune memory?

Science: How fruits sow the seeds of confusion

Science: New hope in the fight against fungi

Science: Hares tell foxes ‘I can see you’

Science: Calibrating the evolutionary clock

Science: Cancer screening gets down to the bone

Technology

Technology: US Navy superconductor sails past Britain

Technology

Technology: A cultured future for corneas?

Technology

Technology: Coded videos for the blind or deaf

Technology

Technology: What brute force means in Japanese

Technology

Technology: Physicist nets top prize for keeping buildings cooler

Technology

Technology: T-shirts find their place in the sun

Patents: A question of divided royalties

Patents: Winner by a nose

Patents: All in the best taste?

Patents: Patents Information

Patents: Wiping clean

Patents: Browned off

Opinion

Government spends more, but_

Comment: Overheating in paradise

Comment: Knowledge is power

Features

Big squeeze for video: You may never want to record the 500 programmes on offer from your local cable television company. But whether you do or not, the technology will soon be available

Justice at last for the dodo

Earth

The climate conundrum: Chill warnings from Greenland

The perils of planting pesticides: Natural toxins from soil bacteria were once hailed as benign pesticides. But transplanting their genes into crops could backfire

More

Review: The man behind the mask of genius

Review: A solid grounding in a world of illusion

Review: Breaking the glass case round technology’s history

Review: Down your way with rocks

Review: Lyrical passions of a dwarf star

Review: Meet the cormorant family and other sea birds

Review: Inspiration from the operating table

Review: When East meets West in medicine

Forum: Who wants to be a millionaire? – Peter Moore wonders if a national lottery is a boon or a bungle

Forum: Other people’s pregnancies – Donald Gould considers a better deal for mothers and babies

Thistle Diary: From dust to dust, and ashes to CO2 – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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