If you go down to the woods today - Trees laden with acorns and lush green grass sound idyllic to us. But for a new breed of disease detectives they are harbingers of doom, warns Karen Schmidt
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Distilled wisdom - Forget all those dreadful hours trying to work out which carbon double bond does what. David Bradley discovers the supersmart software that is freeing chemists to be more creative than ever before
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A grim reckoning - What has a 16th-century astronomer got to do with the defeat of governments and the possible extinction of the human race? Answers in fractions please, says J. Richard Gott III
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Creatures from primordial silicon - Let Darwinism loose in an electronics lab and just watch what it creates. A lean, mean machine that nobody understands. Clive Davidson reports
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Table of contents
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In brief : Ancestral mammal
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In brief : Second chance
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In brief : Jam making
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In brief : Partners in crime
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In brief : Hot and hotter
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Netropolitan : Inherit the wit
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Drained of life - Is the destruction of peat bogs to blame for dwindling coastal fish stocks?
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The history of the world in peat
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Fur flies in Japan - Many of the country's mammals are on the verge of extinction
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FBI swoops on Net hijacker
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Heavenly halo - Our Galaxy is shrouded in gamma rays—but no one knows what it means yet
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Hungry helpers cheat their charges
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Focus : Friendly fire
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Technofile : Eaten up
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Technofile : Tidal power
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Technofile : MASH updated
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Technofile : Sticky solution
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New quark on the block - The heavy mob are moving in on the Standard Model
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Copycat killers could be a shot in the arm for AIDS
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Clues for Clouseau - Even the most bumbling detective couldn't miss evidence that flashes its presence
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Hacking through the data jungle
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Clean-living fire - The domestic stove has finally managed to quit smoking
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Antibody `cruelty' to be phased out
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Try the needle - An American panel of experts says that acupuncture can relieve pain and nausea
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The curse of open government
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Forest fables - Europe's trees may be in better shape than anyone thought
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Death to the chip - Is the reign of classical computing coming to an end?
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Time to strike camp - Australia must junk its Cold War attitude to Antarctic research
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Patents : On call
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Patents : Some like it hot
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Patents : Numbers up
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Clearing the air - Europe gets tough on the clouds of soot and dust that kill thousands
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51¶¯Âþwire : Red alert
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51¶¯Âþwire : Swords into shares
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Fix for furry arteries - Stopping heart disease at its source is the dream of doctors experimenting with a new drug
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From little acorns… mighty software can be grown
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A poisoned inheritance - What does a shocking new study on irradiated rodents mean for humans?
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The hunt goes on - Radiation may not have caused Sellafield's leukaemia cluster
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51¶¯Âþwire : RSI for kids
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Opinion
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If you go down to the woods today - Trees laden with acorns and lush green grass sound idyllic to us. But for a new breed of disease detectives they are harbingers of doom, warns Karen Schmidt
Features
Distilled wisdom - Forget all those dreadful hours trying to work out which carbon double bond does what. David Bradley discovers the supersmart software that is freeing chemists to be more creative than ever before
Features
A grim reckoning - What has a 16th-century astronomer got to do with the defeat of governments and the possible extinction of the human race? Answers in fractions please, says J. Richard Gott III
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Creatures from primordial silicon - Let Darwinism loose in an electronics lab and just watch what it creates. A lean, mean machine that nobody understands. Clive Davidson reports
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