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What if…

forget silicon, try dna

Thinking big – In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

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News

No fireworks

Science : You are feeling very sleepy . . .

Cot death clue

Holistic hazards – Millions of people in Britain turn to complementary medicine in the belief that it is risk-free. But a closer look shows that side effects are widespread

Technology

Technology : Heir to the shuttle pushes the limits

Science : `Poor’ vaccine ruled out in TB puzzle

Science : Potassium gives in under pressure

Science : Brain regions stutter to a halt

Science : Model wind helps build real fire

Science : Rocky jigsaw reveals ancient American river

Greenland gets tough with `theme park’ scientists

Probably the loneliest camp site in the world

Frozen eye watches the birth of stars

AIDS gulf widens

Back to front

Red tide killings

Science : Quality control for early embryos

Greens attack plans to import `dirty fuel’

Space pregnancy leads to hard labour

Shuttle launches come unstuck

Cluster revamp deepens ESA crisis

Cars still choke towns

France prohibits use of asbestos

Long-lived pollutants threaten the Great Lakes

Hormone test goes on trial in Atlanta

If you want to win gold, just chill out

Global warming brings early spring

Malaria falls to herbal remedy

Rare birds ravaged by mystery poison

Technology

Technology : X-rays spot tell-tale haloes in breast scans

Technology

Technology : Heat on a hot, thin roof

Technology

Netropolitan : Heat on a hot, thin roof

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Technology

Technology : Look, no wires for extra TVs

Technology

Technology : Do what I mean, not what I say

Technology

Technology : Bendy blades cut rotors down to size

Opinion

Editorial : The wrong resistance – EVERY year, between 300 and 500 million people develop malaria. Close to 3 million people die as a result, most of them children and nearly all of them living in tropical Africa.

Editorial : Ethical egg on our faces – LAST week, the press had what looked like a bout of mid-summer madness over the impending destruction of thousands of human embryos stored in vats of liquid nitrogen all over Britain. The embryos were produced by cou

Features

What if…

forget silicon, try dna

Thinking big – In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

Stone Age Picassos

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Review : Top twenty

Forum : Finders keepers won’t do any more

Thistle diary : Catalysts for a new millenium – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : Switching to solar can lower current prices – Ian Lowe looks at where renewable energy is making economic sense

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : Benefit of the doubters

Review : Confidence tricks

Review : Collected works

Review : Breakfast of champions

Review : Engineering feats

Review : Ironmongering

Review : Cosmic reading

Review : Stolen treasure

Review : The splintered self

Review : Pride and prejudice

Review : Gasping for air

Review : Woes of the world

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