The perils of planting pesticides: Natural toxins from soil bacteria were once hailed as benign pesticides. But transplanting their genes into crops could backfire
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Earth
The climate conundrum: Chill warnings from Greenland
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Justice at last for the dodo
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Big squeeze for video: You may never want to record the 500 programmes on offer from your local cable television company. But whether you do or not, the technology will soon be available
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News
Technology
Technology: A cultured future for corneas?
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Technology
Technology: Coded videos for the blind or deaf
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Technology
Technology: What brute force means in Japanese
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Technology
Technology: Physicist nets top prize for keeping buildings cooler
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Technology
Technology: T-shirts find their place in the sun
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Patents: Wiping clean
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Patents: Browned off
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Patents: A question of divided royalties
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Science: Do genes jog the body's immune memory?
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Science: How fruits sow the seeds of confusion
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Science: New hope in the fight against fungi
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Science: Hares tell foxes 'I can see you'
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Shoe shock
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Keeping rubbish rotten to the core: A new generation of massive rubbish dumps in the US is being designed to keep water out. But research suggests that keeping refuse wet may speed decay and minimise pollution
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Science: Calibrating the evolutionary clock
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Sculpture rises from the ash
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Vaccine 'gift'
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Coast concern
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Water cleared
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No network now?
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Mini-gene injection prevents muscle-wasting disease
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Why girls see ghouls under the bed
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Back through the nests of time
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Call for checks on official databases
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Government 'minders' for opposition visits
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The biggest telescope in the world
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US 'helpline' for waste problems
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Breast cancer finding sparks insurance fears
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. . . while Britain bids to use 'essential' ozone eaters
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Norway threatened with sanctions over whales
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All quiet on the Martian front . . .
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Russia's space treasures go under the hammer
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Surprise illness halts gene therapy trial
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Germany unveils plans to cut greenhouse gases . . .
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Opinion
Features
The perils of planting pesticides: Natural toxins from soil bacteria were once hailed as benign pesticides. But transplanting their genes into crops could backfire
Features
Earth
The climate conundrum: Chill warnings from Greenland
Features
Justice at last for the dodo
Features
Big squeeze for video: You may never want to record the 500 programmes on offer from your local cable television company. But whether you do or not, the technology will soon be available
Features
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Review: Meet the cormorant family and other sea birds
Books & Arts
Review: Inspiration from the operating table
Books & Arts
Review: When East meets West in medicine
Books & Arts
Forum: Who wants to be a millionaire? - Peter Moore wonders if a national lottery is a boon or a bungle
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Thistle Diary: From dust to dust, and ashes to CO2 - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Other people's pregnancies - Donald Gould considers a better deal for mothers and babies
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