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Genetic markers put pigs on the map
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Life
Death on the steppe: The case of the frozen bison
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Why bricks have lift but cannot fly
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Physics
Flight of the Frisbee
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Britain and the human genome: As Americans with megabucks gear up to unravel the secrets of human genetics, can British scientists do anything useful with a relatively modest sum?
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Forest saviours follow in the footsteps of Gandhi
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Warriors of the woodlands: The summer of ecological discontent may be made inglorious if the ecowarriors of the US decide on violent confrontation with loggers to defend ancient forests
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The spread of cancer in the human body
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The microbes that would not die: Microbiologists have coaxed life from a brick from a temple in Thebes, from permanently frozen arctic soil and from ancient muds on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Are these organisms really survivors from earlier centuri
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Space
Surviving radiation in space
Radiation in space is a tricky and expensive problem for designers of satellites. This week, NASA and the Pentagon launched a satellite that will cut the cost
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In the beginning was the genome: The world’s first ‘big science’ project in the life sciences – The project to map and sequence the entire complement of human genes
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Doubts raised over accuracy of DNA fingerprinting
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In search of a mammoth fraud
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Fog, wind and heat – life in the Namib desert
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