A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that 'osmotherapy' may also help people to slim or stop smoking
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
The changing face of Chiron
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A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic
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The hurdles to ban chemical weapons
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The grim trade that is so hard to control
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Life
Sex with a twist in the tail: The common-or-garden housefly
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The poisonous power of chemical warfare
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Table of contents
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Patents: Kamikaze disc
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Patents: Rapid transit for patent disputes
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Science: Drug eliminates side effects of cancer treatment
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Science: How man-made ozone damages plants
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Science: Does electrical charge come in smaller instalments?
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Science: Plant material may have controlled oxygen in atmosphere
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Science: DNA's ancestors made themselves up
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Technology
Technology: Systems design takes an evolutionary turn
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Technology
Technology: Pollutant masks hide risk to city cyclists
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Technology
Technology: Sinclair gets on his bike
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Technology
Computer modelling makes jet engines less noxious . . .
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At the BA: Could salmonella save your life?
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At the BA: Flipping oceans could turn up the heat
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At tha BA: 'Wobbles' rewrite history
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At the BA: Modern farming puts small birds to flight
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At the BA: Positive posters make the AIDS message stick
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At the BA: VDU text is a headache
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At the BA: Government 'distrusts' the social sciences
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At the BA: Americans aim to overhaul science teaching by 2061
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Archive threat
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Hubble still throws light on the stars
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Home for bats
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Pill briefing
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Chemical crop
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Ovarian cancer study
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Ceausescu freed
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Hot summer comes up to scratch
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Bolivian indians march to save their homeland
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Hard sums lose pupils
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Company cars drive wedge between ministries
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Cancer threat prompts China to curb smoking
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Comet Levy at its brightest this weekend
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Margarine fails the fat test in Dutch study
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Opinion
Features
A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that 'osmotherapy' may also help people to slim or stop smoking
Features
The changing face of Chiron
Features
A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic
Features
The hurdles to ban chemical weapons
Features
The grim trade that is so hard to control
Features
