Anyone for cheap diamond film?: Should a revolutionary way of coating materials with diamond be cold-shouldered until it establishes its scientific credentials? Industrialists are beginning to think not
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Editor's picks
Why genes have a gender: Without knowing it, parents stamp their authority on the DNA of their children. The result is a battle of the sexes played out by chromosomes and genes
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Space
Magellan's last mission
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The white heat of laser dentistry: Dentists in the US are not allowed to use lasers to drill their patients' teeth. But in Britain they are, even though researchers are still evaluating the technique
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Table of contents
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Technology
Technology: Ghostbusters in the sky
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Technology
Technology: Barnacle Bill and the red hot peppers
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Technology
Technology: Peace dividend produces secure cellphones
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Technology
Technology: Photographs in a flash
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Earth
'Pit of the bones' yields early human skulls
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Science: DNA test finds HIV's hideout
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Life
Science: On the origins of the midwife
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Science: The Hubble constant rides a gravitational arc
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Science: Supernova changes its spectral spots
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Science: How hungry ants hinder return of the forest
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Science: Gene injection cures mice of cancer
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Goodbye Star Wars
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Labour list
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Sheep may safely burp
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Sex boycott
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Fate of Freedom
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Soyuz explodes
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Surface solution
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Earth
The two faces of the Exxon disaster
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End of an era for Britain's biggest research council
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Foreign weed raises alarm across Broads
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Vitamin cuts cancer rate in China
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Timber pest prompts import curb
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Royalties row over digital recordings
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Health reforms herald personal identity numbers
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University researcher given a taste of life in industry
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Overhaul ordered for bioethics bill
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Nuclear dump could pollute water
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Quiet engineer heads German research
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Secret report puts Warren Spring's future on the line
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Gulf War was no high-tech breakthrough
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The torpedo is not for turning
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Whaling ban stays in place - for now
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Opinion
Features
Anyone for cheap diamond film?: Should a revolutionary way of coating materials with diamond be cold-shouldered until it establishes its scientific credentials? Industrialists are beginning to think not
Features
Why genes have a gender: Without knowing it, parents stamp their authority on the DNA of their children. The result is a battle of the sexes played out by chromosomes and genes
Features
Space
Magellan's last mission
Features
The white heat of laser dentistry: Dentists in the US are not allowed to use lasers to drill their patients' teeth. But in Britain they are, even though researchers are still evaluating the technique
Features
More
Review: Why pure inventions don't exist
Books & Arts
Review: Goodbye to the steamers
Books & Arts
Review: Right Promethean fire
Books & Arts
Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Frank Drake and Dava Sobel
Books & Arts
Review: In the country of the blind
Books & Arts
