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Glass pharmacy – Preserved in minute beads of sugar, drugs could last for years and be easier to take, too. Ben Crystall investigates

How right can you be?

The secret is in the fridge

It takes two

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News

Cold War waste fouls the Clyde

Will cloned cows rise from the dead?

Supermoths spell trouble for natural pesticide

Furry subversives undermine Britain’s railways

Recycling madness revives obsolete plants

`Fly swatter’ hunts satellite snoops

Stressed plants cry for help

Gene research meets the environment

Data miners only strike fool’s gold

Drugs firms fight biowar curbs

Filthy air pushes Delhi to crisis point

India looks farther east for its ancestors

Business boffins

Morning after

Stay of execution

Return to sender

Rabbits’ reprieve

Facelift for labs

AIDS deaths fall

SOHO reveals the Sun’s hidden halo

The ecology of violence

Science : Laser sheds light on how coral grows

Science : A dream drug for weight watchers?

Science : Gut reaction is your best guide

Science : Desert dunes sing silica’s song

Science : Buckyball `transistor’ raises nanocomputing hopes

Science : Odd timing keeps cicadas in their prime

Science : The mystery of the missing penis

Technology

Technology : Vaccine promises to stop the slaughter

Technology

Technology : If you want to buy or sell, get an agent

Technology

Technology : Plants acquire taste for `blood’

Technology

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Technology : Contacts that help your eyes breathe more easily

Technology

Technology : Many bands make light work

Technology

Technology : Rewriting rules on CD-ROMs

Opinion

Editorial : A growing irony – IT IS always a tragedy when a gift from nature is squandered, whether it is a river dead from pollution or a forest laid to waste for timber. Let’s hope that the biotechnology industry is not about to throw away the enormous

Features

Glass pharmacy – Preserved in minute beads of sugar, drugs could last for years and be easier to take, too. Ben Crystall investigates

How right can you be?

The secret is in the fridge

It takes two

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Antipodes : Australian quarantine braces for a shake up – Ian Lowe investigates the choices facing Cabinet

Review : A new kid on the Net

Review : The meme is the message

Review : Machined history

Review : My brain hurts

Review : Cometary seeds

Review : With hindsight

Review : After Charles

Review : Magic to molecules

Review : New facts of life

Review : Mushroom galore

Review : Disaster watch

Review : Duplication and duplicity

Review : From thrower to thinker

Bestsellers : from Washington

Review : Collected works

Forum : Holding out for some local heroes

Forum : All the fun of the fest

Thistle diary : Noisy skies and noxious streams – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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