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Health

Fine young slobs?

Britain’s abandoned empire: Britain’s attitude to its far flung island territories should prove deeply embarrassing for ministers attending a special UN meeting on conservation next week

Meet genetics’ master chefs: All cells contain the same genetic information. So what makes a hair cell hairy or a bone cell bony?

Drilling for a past climate:

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News

‘Bizare’ plan in the name of efficiency . . .

. . . as privatisation threatens Britain’s exports

World unites to fight soaring population

Weapons scientists finger tax fiddlers

Congress gives tobacco giants a roasting

Aztec fruit reappears in the mountains of Mexico

Internet ‘pirate’ charged in US

Quark hunters closing in

Pollution inspectors get tough on Sizewell B

Infertile women face ban on fetal eggs

Fatal blast at ‘retired’ reactor

Japan’s breeder is for burning

Echoes of ancient Africa in our speech?

The artistic soul of the earwig

Herbal hope

Boost for LHC

French protest

Time to tell

Insecure

STOP software speed trap ahead: Will patents on software bring progress on America’s information superhighway to a standstill

Science: A breath of fresh air for planet Earth

Science: Machine gun cratering scarred the moon

Science: Ice age wobbles shaped climate

Science: When is a comet not a comet?

Science: Spiny secret of submarine ‘rainforest’

Science: Molecular time travellers revive ‘extinct’ gene

Science: How to make a buckyball-it’s a wind up

Technology

Technology: Inventor turns tide on power generation

Technology

Technology: More trouble at the US patent office

Technology

Technology: Neutrons see where X-rays can’t . . .

Technology

Technology: . . . while lasers sniff out stomach ulcers

Technology

Technology: Chipping away at Balearics’ energy needs

Technology

Technology: Current cleanser keeps lenses clean

Opinion

Comment: Whose efficiency?

Comment: To the bottom of the top

A battle of networks

Features

Health

Fine young slobs?

Kids who spend hours hunched in front of television or computer screens may look as healthy as their active brothers and sisters. But are they storing up trouble? Helen Saul reports

Britain’s abandoned empire: Britain’s attitude to its far flung island territories should prove deeply embarrassing for ministers attending a special UN meeting on conservation next week

Meet genetics’ master chefs: All cells contain the same genetic information. So what makes a hair cell hairy or a bone cell bony?

Drilling for a past climate:

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Review: The burdens of choice

Review: Twitching is not the only route

Review: Battling for the planet

Review: Love and hate in the machine

Review: Every scientist a moral philosopher?

Review: How fear eats the soul

Forum: Can whalers be trusted to save the whales? – Vassili Papastavrou assesses the obstacles facing a proposed Southern Ocean sanctuary

Forum: Chaos reigns whenever it pours – William Burroughs laments the passing of old-time seasonal climate patterns

Thistle Diary: More trouble down the pits – Tam Dalyell pours cold water on empty collieries

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