For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses
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Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?
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Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?
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Why should anyone care about taxonomy?
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Counting species one by one
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Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently
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Life
Palaeontology's hidden agenda
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Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes
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Technology
Technology: The pump that pips fires to the post
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Technology
Technology: Record industry faces up to digital tape
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Science: A new tree of life takes root
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Science: The switch that turns the brain on to cannabis
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Science: Pulsar problems in a multidimensional Universe
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Science: 'Safe' test may spot fetal abnormalities
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Science: Cooking up carcinogens - The chemicals generated in our food
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Backup launch
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Wrong cholesterol
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Hold that tiger
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Apnoea kills
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Bins and burgers
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More circles
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Life saver
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Sterile release
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Sodium nitrate comes to the aid of the Dunhuang Diamond Sutra
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Soviet blackout looms as nuclear disquiet deepens
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Europe calls for satellite competition
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Japanese business counts the cost of aid projects
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Animal remedy may hold promise for AIDS
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Bloom boom for Italy's slimy beaches
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America shuts the door on 'Open Skies'
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Europe's forests fall to acid rain
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Iraq's 'nuclear' furnaces stay in Scotland
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Protests grow over nerve gas disposal
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How Europe keeps the cocaine cartels in business
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US approves trials with gene therapy
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Innocent victims of the Glorious Twelfth
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DNA fingerprinters aim to counter critics
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Opinion
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For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses
Features
Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?
Features
Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?
Features
Why should anyone care about taxonomy?
Features
Counting species one by one
Features
Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently
Features
Life
Palaeontology's hidden agenda
Features
Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes
Features
