Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance - Geneticists are close to identifying a gene that can lead to hereditary breast cancer. But at first this breakthrough could raise more problems than it solves
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Shine on, brilliant galaxy: What lies at the heart of the brightest galaxies in the Universe? An old theory could be making a comeback
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Early warning for the next Chernobyl: The high cost of making the former Soviet Union's ageing nuclear power plants safe is forcing Western governments to set up an early warning system for radiation leaks
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Last chance for the wasting wilderness?: Neglect is destroying two of Britain's most precious natural habitats. The second part of our series explains why government intervention is needed
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Table of contents
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Science: Safer way to stop a coronary
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Science: Deepest hole yet over the North
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Science: Monkeys live fast, die young
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Science: Cold is the key to ozone loss
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Technology
Technology: Seeds of recovery for Ukraine's milk
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Technology
Technology: TV spectacles cast eye fears aside
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Technology
Technology: Just turn on the tap to fill up the tank?
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Technology
Technology: Phones to end the bathtime blues
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Weaponry on tap
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Star Wars tricks
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Soldiers poisoned?
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Plug for pill
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Film fantasy
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Focus: Cracking into the world of whispers: The US government is offering an 'uncrackable' encryption algorithm to the world. But is its motivation to catch criminals or to listen to everything you say?
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Science: Can 'personal' vaccines fight MS?
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Dreadful locks
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Zoo turnaround
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Dodgy drugs
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US advised to rejoin UNESCO
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Staff axed as leading museum goes down market
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Gun laws takes toll of California's sea lions
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Can Clinton's computers cut government flab?
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Chewing gum gave Stone Age punk a buzz
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French minister hints at budget boost
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Brazil goes sweet on electricity
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Ageing tapestries united by light
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Row surfaces over sunken nuclear sub
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Injured iceman was only hours away from safety
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Few take up offer of gene screening
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DNA transplant give insight into TB
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Hidden homeless who came to stay . . .
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Rushed HIV testing risks false results
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Peace pact promises unity in the desert
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Opinion
Features
Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance - Geneticists are close to identifying a gene that can lead to hereditary breast cancer. But at first this breakthrough could raise more problems than it solves
Features
Shine on, brilliant galaxy: What lies at the heart of the brightest galaxies in the Universe? An old theory could be making a comeback
Features
Early warning for the next Chernobyl: The high cost of making the former Soviet Union's ageing nuclear power plants safe is forcing Western governments to set up an early warning system for radiation leaks
Features
Last chance for the wasting wilderness?: Neglect is destroying two of Britain's most precious natural habitats. The second part of our series explains why government intervention is needed
Features
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Earthquakes and volcanoes
Inside Science
Paperbacks: Roy Herbert discovers habit-forming science broadcasts and mirror-image molecules
Books & Arts
Forum: Vogon economics and the hyperspace bypass - John Adams on a debate in which scientific uncertainty is being transformed into economic farce
Forum
Forum: Morphology of theses - Alun Rees provides an examiner's view of dissertations
Forum
Thistle Diary: Arguments, nightmares and pollution - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Review: Earth's fireworks
Books & Arts
Review: Friend and foe in science fiction
Books & Arts
Review: There are comets at the bottom of the garden
Books & Arts
Review: A cover that says it all
Books & Arts
Review: The case for earth sciences
Books & Arts
Review: Whewell, the statesman of science
Books & Arts
