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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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
News
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
News
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
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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
