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Hooked on drugs – Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

Chilling light

Secrets of a perfect skin

Physics

Into the eleventh dimension

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News

Technology

Technology : Digital data comes down the mains

Seaweed sickness

Soft, strong and very long

Science : X-rays reveal secret of drug’s strength

Science : Giant sloth was armed to kill

Science : The shape of diamonds to come

Your money or your life 鈥� Will gene testing tell insurance companies anything about diseases theydon’t know already?

Rice redundancies

Staying nuclear

Technology

Technology : When I got my PC home, it was obsolete 鈥�

Space monkey dies

Science : A black hole may lurk at the heart of every galaxy

Science : Images from the edge of darkness

Science : Leftovers of the Milky Way’s birth

Science : Lost forests leave West Africa dry

Technology

Technology : Coated windows will let the sun shine in

Technology

Technology : Renegade antibodies captured by evolving RNA

Doctors dissect Gulf sickness mystery…

Web sites are a hacker’s heaven

I could swear it was him, officer

Could stray explosives incriminate the innocent?

Tooth decay linked to persistent lead pollution

Human transplants of animal organs `too risky’

Einstein’s insights come into focus

Technology

Technology : Vote early, vote often in telephone polls

Orbital junk threatens space station

Prion test will identify victims of tainted beef

Comet crash spied by the Sun King’s court

Violent art eased urban tensions

鈥� as Pentagon prepares for biowar

In the dark

Sign here

Rocket postmortem

Australasian : Peter Bridgewater…downloaded

scan : rat citings

Science : How nerve cells learn to take the heat

bytes : Still looking

bytes : Great surge forward

random samples : Genetic investment

changing places :

Technology

Technology : Altered tobacco plants raise hepatitis hopes

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Technology : Pig cells keep cholesterol at bay

scan : small wonders

Opinion

Editorial : Chance would be a fine thing – HOW much is a nanogram? It is, of course, a very small quantity indeed鈥攋ust a thousand millionth of a gram. But such is the fabulous power of analytical chemistry that similar vanishingly small quantities o

Editorial : A well-protected site? 鈥� IN THE villages of the English countryside there are still people whoremember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. Theresimply wasn’t any crime to worry about.

Features

Hooked on drugs – Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease? John Bonner investigates

Chilling light

Secrets of a perfect skin

Physics

Into the eleventh dimension

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Review : Collected works

Review : Lively wetware seeks friendly software

Review : The particulars of particles

Review : Faraday uncaged

Review : Syphilis onslaught

Review : Inventing the goat

Review : …to lunar bishops

Review : From flying saucers…

Review : Damn lies

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Here’s looking through you

Review : Staying conscious

Review : Famous five

Review : Monster mash

Forum : Double trouble in academe

Thistle diary : Contract culture and Net connections – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : From bush telegraph to information superhighway – Ian Lowe explores the barriers to bringing farmers on-line

Review : How the mind works out

Forum : Blame it on the beards – Martin Brookes thinks there’s much to be gained from a smooth appearance

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