Proofreaders for the code of life: When genes become garbled there are two safe options – repair or die. The alternative, reports Karen Schmidt, is cancer
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Shooting at the moon
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Solvents get the big squeeze: Compress carbon dioxide enough and it will decaffeinate your coffee, improve the flavour of your beer and help chemists find safer ways to make new molecules. David Bradley reports on the strange world of supercritical fluid
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How many species do we need?
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Mice offer hope to unfertile men
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Lost tree found in Scottish Highlands
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Challenge over nuclear waste lab
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Japan learns to face up to AIDS
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Information superhighways is ‘for the future’
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New look woods banish wildlife
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The agony and ecstacy of working on Galileo
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Land of the rising sun reaches for the Moon
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Experts condemn Bangladesh flood plan
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‘Successful’ Star Wars test was faked
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Tougher rules for blood donors
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Handicaps of hospital closures
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Pit owners must report rock falls
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Where did desert builders get their wood
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Mummy’s enzymes are almost as good as new
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Fantastic bones
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Cancer destroyers
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Beneath the beef
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Museum is made of fossils
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West helps East
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Dante descends
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The art of digital war: The US Army’s newest recruit is an electronic communications system that it hopes will give generals and frontline soldiers some clear view of battle
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Science: Soil bacteria stop mosquitoes dead
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Science: Slow leak from interior of red planet
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Science: Tangled tale of a self-organising fibre
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Science: Strong enough to leg it when the going got tough
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Science: Playing tag with blue whales
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Science: Out for the neutrino count
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Science: Crossing the ‘T’s of organic reactions
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Science: Does the cerebellum have a hand in dyslexia?
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Technology
Technology: Antibodies get bigger deal from bacteria
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Technology
Technology: Spirit of Joplin blows into town
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Technology: East Enders sue for two years without Eastenders
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Technology: Flexible axle does two jobs in one
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Technology: One-drop test may warn of sickle-cell attacks
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Opinion
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Proofreaders for the code of life: When genes become garbled there are two safe options – repair or die. The alternative, reports Karen Schmidt, is cancer
Features
Shooting at the moon
Features
Solvents get the big squeeze: Compress carbon dioxide enough and it will decaffeinate your coffee, improve the flavour of your beer and help chemists find safer ways to make new molecules. David Bradley reports on the strange world of supercritical fluid
Features
Environment
How many species do we need?
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Review: Sifting the evidence for belief in the past
Books & Arts
Review: Careless talk that cost lives
Books & Arts
Review: New York’s bone people
Books & Arts
Review: Paperbacks – Roy Herbert contemplates feverfew and oxeye daisies, the origins of the Universe, the colonial past and whales by moonlight and the environmental history of Britain
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