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News

Why some boxers are born losers

Is GPS better than the Pentagon lets on?

Computer giants fail screen test

Wind and fire bedevil tunnel

Cheating farmers know the score

Food safety may have to wait

Jetsetters send festering faeces round the world

Amber alien surprises Lazarus team

Poisoned water sparks cancer fears

Don’t ignore nature’s bottom line

Rocket hitchhikes its way into history

Space fridge will rescue Hubble’s faulty camera

Dounreay grasped by strong arm of the law

Pentium glitch

Meat and veg man

Gulf War probe

Belgrade cleanup

Net name retreat

Coming up for air

Calculating machine psychs out grandmaster

How the West gets well

Science : Miniature designers take up weaving

Science : Does yeast hold secrets of CJD?

Science : The language of emotions is universal

Science : Thieving ions power X-ray comet

Science : Quantum cheats will always win

Science : Icy world’s clue to Pluto’s origins

Science : Parasites may deprive female insects of young

Science : Ancestral bacterium keeps DNA locked apart

Technology

Technology : Phone network runs rings around the world

Technology

Technology : Off-the-peg blood suits all types

Technology

Technology : Clever crossings save lives

Technology

Technology : Plants that stay cool in a crisis

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Technology : Spider gives kiss of death to pests

Technology

Technology : Read my lips: no more keyboards

Technology

Technology : Fingertip access to information by the screenful

Opinion

Editorial : Smart, but not smart enough

Editorial : Signing up with the devil

Features

One set fits all

Dam busting

Computing the uncomputable

Beyond space and time

More

Antipodes : Knowing when your food changes its genes

Birds of Prey by Matthew Lynn

Review : Riddle of the curves

Review : Universal learning

Review : A world unleashed

Review : Horrible histories

Review : Paperchase

Review : Know ourselves

Review : Right to die

Review : NHS deforms

Review : Loads of stuff

Review : Race ahead

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Collected works

Forum : You are charged with irrelevance . . .

Forum : Did Sally die in vain?

Thistle Diary : Times gone by, cod stocks and space hopes

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