Last Olympics for the sex test?
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Faithless female seeks better genes
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Fickle constants of physics: Fundamental constants turn up in all sorts of equations. There may be nothing fundamental about them at all, and science may not need them
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A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix. Should the credit go to him or to his car?
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Smart ways to treat materials: Will artificial materials ever be smart enough to respond as if they were part of a living organism? It could mean tissue healing more quickly and aircraft flying more safely
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Science: Mutant enzymes quicken the pace of chemical reactions
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Technology
Technology: Surveillance device slips through the net
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Technology
Technology: Athletes sleep their way to the top
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Technology
Technology: Oven test adds glow to irradiated food
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Technology
Technology: Sound idea for music lovers
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Science: Action replay revives wasted muscle
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Science: Light slows gases' giddy whirl into a black hole
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Science: Is there a 'successful' immune response to HIV?
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Science: Nautilus take slow lane to survival
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Select science
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Avoiding diabetes
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Abortion agreed
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AIDS drug approved
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Reactor stays shut
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Focus: Today we will design a hamburger - In technology classes children are taught the principles of cookery and design. But they are missing out on practical skills
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Green forces
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The sound of Monica's greatist hits
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University on trial for rigging prices
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Astronauts need daily dose of gravity
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French pharmacists fight for right to sell vitamin C
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Some of our alcohol is missing
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Brussels faces German invasion
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Ripa goes home
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Bull bailed out
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Safer sex
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Biodiversity Convention a 'lousy deal', says US
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Hidden hazards at the hairdresser
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It's official: there is a brain drain
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Visitors flock to threatened zoo
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Embryo body calls for counselling
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Key nations defy whaling commission
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Darwin Initiative proves slow to evolve
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Murderous experiments of Stalin's police chief
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World's inventors to get common rights?
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Cut lines led to phantom calls
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How card forgers withdraw cash on demand
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Tide turns for gravity waves
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Opinion
Features
Last Olympics for the sex test?
Features
Faithless female seeks better genes
Features
Fickle constants of physics: Fundamental constants turn up in all sorts of equations. There may be nothing fundamental about them at all, and science may not need them
Features
A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix. Should the credit go to him or to his car?
Features
Smart ways to treat materials: Will artificial materials ever be smart enough to respond as if they were part of a living organism? It could mean tissue healing more quickly and aircraft flying more safely
Features
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Thistle Diary: Toxic wastes and other ethical issues - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Forum: Scottish lament for natural philosophy - Stephen G. Clackson commemorates the success that was physics at the University of Aberdeen
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Forum: A dinosaur called Sue - Jeff Hecht investigates the case of a fossil in search of an owner
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Forum: Chaos and the working women - Catherine Warren looks for disorder and finds bedlam instead
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Review: Icy moons of the far reaches
Books & Arts
Review: Portrait of the cyberneticists
Books & Arts
