Survivors from the primordial soup: Living stromatolites bear witness to the life their fossil forebears led 3500 million years ago. But the attention lavished on these fragile ecosystems could be their downfall
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Inquest on Soviet computing: In the mid 1960s, Soviet planners promised computers for everyone and a new era of wealth and efficiency. Now, the Gorbachev reforms have revealed the crippling inadequacy of these claims
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The universal constructer set: A new era in applied molecular biology has begun. Researchers have discovered a way of generating novel biopolymers with virtually unlimited potential
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The sugar coating on the protein: For years, biochemists looked on carbohydrate molecules as inert and insignificant. But these complex sugars play a crucial role in the activity of many proteins. They could be the key to new drugs for treating arthritis
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China's long march to longevity: An ambitious epidemiological study, charting the life and death of thousands of Chinese, has just been published. It holds many lessons for both East and West
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Europe's farmers plough a new furrow: The farming community in Europe is bracing itself for the end of the subsidies that have resulted in unmanageable food surpluses. Should we start to use the land for different purposes?
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Table of contents
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IBM joins Jessi
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Making a meal of extinction
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City supports R&D
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Poultry protected
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Women's hearts
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Arabs united
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Science: Possible brown dwarf in southern skies
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Science: Honeycomb crystals could lead to cleaner fuel
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Science: Neutrino 'correlations' tantalise astronomers
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Science: A white Christmas on Mars
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Science: Supernova remnant shows up at new wavelength
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Life
Science: Deadly toxin calms excited muscles
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Science: Can monkeys read each others' minds?
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Technology
Technology: German robot tackles first reactor core
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Technology
Technology: 'Killer cheeses' primed to fight listeria
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Technology
Technology: Record industry faces up to sticky tape problem
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Humans
A word in your ear, Prime Minister
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Cure for sleeping sickness receives all-clear
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Third World AIDS programme short on funds
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Sterile screw worms fly in to save Africa's livestock
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Lethal paint makes for the open sea
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Europe's car makers unite to face Japan
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Controversial cancer therapy discredited
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'Time-bomb' town planned for Thames refinery
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Sky's the limit, says Philips
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Americans set the table for engineered food
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Caught short in the Channel Tunnel
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Environment
'Cuddly' orang-utans threatened by traders
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Brazil and Argentina open up nuclear sites
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Pollutants on tap for Berlin's growing population
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Astro loses its sense of direction
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An end to chemical fertilisers?
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Opinion
Features
Survivors from the primordial soup: Living stromatolites bear witness to the life their fossil forebears led 3500 million years ago. But the attention lavished on these fragile ecosystems could be their downfall
Features
Inquest on Soviet computing: In the mid 1960s, Soviet planners promised computers for everyone and a new era of wealth and efficiency. Now, the Gorbachev reforms have revealed the crippling inadequacy of these claims
Features
The universal constructer set: A new era in applied molecular biology has begun. Researchers have discovered a way of generating novel biopolymers with virtually unlimited potential
Features
The sugar coating on the protein: For years, biochemists looked on carbohydrate molecules as inert and insignificant. But these complex sugars play a crucial role in the activity of many proteins. They could be the key to new drugs for treating arthritis
Features
China's long march to longevity: An ambitious epidemiological study, charting the life and death of thousands of Chinese, has just been published. It holds many lessons for both East and West
Features
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Forum: Pollution in the modern market - Adam Smith would have little time for his latter-day disciples
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Forum: A letter from the chairperson - Thoroughly institutionalised
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Forum: The wages of science - Pay and the jobs pages
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Forum: Time to see the light - Street lighting can dim our prospects
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Review: To follow what is out of reach
Books & Arts
Review: Mount St Helens eruption
Books & Arts
Review: Science and its strange bedfellows
Books & Arts
Arts: A case for display
Books & Arts
Review: Cosmic rays, Italy and a life in exile
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