An object lesson in programming: Computers control our lives but no-one can guarantee that their programs are free of errors. The risks can be reduced by writing software in a way that more closely reflects real life
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The networks of botanical creation: Why is it so hard to construct trees of descent for some groups or organisms, such as flowering plants? Perhaps it is because members of these groups have swapped genes during formative periods of their history
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Born captive, die free
Features
Fuzzy logic goes to market
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Can Europe save its eastern promise?: Science is essential for the repair of the shattered economies of eastern Europe. But research in these countries is dying
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Table of contents
News
Science: Asteroids: hit or miss?
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Science: Star grows old as astonomers watch
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Science: The chemical basis of impotence
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Science: Lensed quasars
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Technology
Technology: Speedy detector will pinpoint polluters
News
Technology
Technology: Japan keeps looking for the ship of the future
News
Technology
Technology: Counting the cost of computer chaos
News
Technology
Technology: 'Baffling' case of CD incompatibility
News
Science: New black hole in our Galaxy
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Space
Science: Stardust is made of diamonds
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Science: Quasar red shifts under the lens
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France aims to 'farm' monkeys for experiments
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Japanese research opens its doors to women
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Animal campaigners pinpoint 'trivial experiments'
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Storing eastern waste
News
TB outbreak
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Ban on CFCs
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Honoured at last
News
Is it a bird? No, it's an incinerator
News
Fossil park
News
Network nightmare
News
To-do at the zoo
News
Not so mushy
News
Science repels
News
DNA sequencing poised to go private
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Itchy skin and runny noses in the animal house
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Taxing times for 'old fashioned' biology
News
Pollution verdict makes legal history
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Wales could become 'Cinderella' of research
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Delors to push science funds into arms of commerce
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Mission to the Sun calls on Jupiter
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Ozone threat
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White House bids to wipe out history
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Something nasty in the potting shed. . .
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Bush's budget boosts civil science
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Opinion
Features
An object lesson in programming: Computers control our lives but no-one can guarantee that their programs are free of errors. The risks can be reduced by writing software in a way that more closely reflects real life
Features
The networks of botanical creation: Why is it so hard to construct trees of descent for some groups or organisms, such as flowering plants? Perhaps it is because members of these groups have swapped genes during formative periods of their history
Features
Born captive, die free
Features
Fuzzy logic goes to market
Features
Can Europe save its eastern promise?: Science is essential for the repair of the shattered economies of eastern Europe. But research in these countries is dying
Features
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Vaccines & immunisation
Inside Science
Forum: Language in the dock - John Gribbin debates the death of science in the modern thriller
Forum
Thistle Diary: Imposition or protection? - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Forum: Dialogue in a Neapolitan cloister - Ralph Estling broods on the non-miracle of San Gennaro
Forum
Review: Technology defeats geology
Books & Arts
Review: Meeting of minds
Books & Arts
Forum: Scntst, GP, nds prtner for MOR and GACK - Sidney Perkowitz finds scientists desperately seeking each other
Forum
Books
Books & Arts
Review: Wallacism in brief
Books & Arts
Review: All fish bright and beautiful
Books & Arts
Review: Lament for Britain's dying seas
Books & Arts
