Taking a short cut to drug design: What makes one molecule behave like another? Drugs companies are using a new approach to find answers that will save them time and money
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This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Big Blue and the silver screen: When IBM scientists agreed to meet the moguls from Hollywood, they hoped their new computer system would pull them back from the financial abyss
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Genes from a disappearing world: A major international project to collect DNA fingerprints from the ethnic groups on the verge of extinction has touched off a heated debate about genetics, race and human welfare
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The mountain that fell to earth: Forty years ago, climbing Everest was the pinnacle of achievement. But better equipment and medical understandingmean far more people can now reach its summit
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Table of contents
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Technology
Patents: Roll up, roll up
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Technology
Patents: Melting moments
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Technology
Technology: Puppet on a terminal cuts videoconference data
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Technology
Technology: Greenhouse plans to reap the sea wind
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Technology
Technology: Matsushita gets rough on Mini Disc
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Technology: Plastic passes the acid test
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Science: Cheetahs teetered on brink in the ice age
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Technology: City planners put noise on the map
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Technology: Electronic retina picks objects in a flash
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Science: When plants behave like animals
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Science: Cometary belt was home of Halley's Comet
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Science: Could brain's own chemical treat Parkinson's?
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Science: The fading pulse of the North Star
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Science: How to manufacture mini metallic 'buckyballs'
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Pressure group broods over altered turkeys
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Did infertility treatment cause brain damage?
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The blue hills of Snowdonia
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Green threat at Warren Spring
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Deadly urban air
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Bye-bye bears?
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For sale: Indonesia's rare parrots
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Hackers go down
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Traces of Tomsk
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Teaming up
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When the medium's message is violent . . . : Does violence on TV make children aggresive? The link is often taken for granted-but can it be proved?
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Biomedical basics bypassed by 'targeted' funds
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Astronomers protest against plan to close French telescopes
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Otter outrage over the bridge to Skye
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Don't dazzle us with space billboards
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Longer life for drugs patent
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Controversial AIDS vaccine to be tested in China
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Geranium assassin flies to Spanish mainland
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Captains of industry call the shots
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An end to the misery of PhD students
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Murder trial features tree's genetic fingerprint
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Waldegrave's 'White Paper for Wealth'
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Waldegrave creates research supremo
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Opinion
Features
Taking a short cut to drug design: What makes one molecule behave like another? Drugs companies are using a new approach to find answers that will save them time and money
Features
Big Blue and the silver screen: When IBM scientists agreed to meet the moguls from Hollywood, they hoped their new computer system would pull them back from the financial abyss
Features
Genes from a disappearing world: A major international project to collect DNA fingerprints from the ethnic groups on the verge of extinction has touched off a heated debate about genetics, race and human welfare
Features
The mountain that fell to earth: Forty years ago, climbing Everest was the pinnacle of achievement. But better equipment and medical understandingmean far more people can now reach its summit
Features
More
Forum: More ways than one to skin a cat - Even as the White Paper is published William Bown finds other recipes for Britain's science policy
Forum
Forum: On the scent of something big - Donald Gould thinks we should mind what we sniff
Forum
Review: Understanding bees and their sweet ways
Books & Arts
Review: Paperbacks - Roy Herbert looks at the futility of trying to predict the future, a controversy about the nature of science, the damage wreaked by humanity and a history of hay fever and herbs
Books & Arts
Review: Science in the real world
Books & Arts
