A paintbox for plant genes: A colourful DNA technique, the botanical equivalent of a paternity test, is helping researchers to trace the wild ancestors of key crop plants, explains Stephen Young
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The sweet smell of purple
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Mystery molecules of deepest space: Observers are scrutinising interstellar space on the trail of the lonely molecules that lurk there. Karen Schmidt reports
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The trillion-bit cube: Computers' appetite for data threatens to overwhelm today's storage techniques. Sunny Bains reports on the race to develop digital memory banks to bridge the gap
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Technology: PLATO solves doctors' poison dilemmas
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Science: The faint glow of dark matter
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Poisoned gold
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Time capsule
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Cold comfort
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Meltdown
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Rising emissions
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Unlike it's neighbours, France is only now starting to tackle HIV. Tara Patel talks to the people working to curb the epidemic
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Science: Superheavy elements could soon be made
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Science: Memory loss - a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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Long-distance cyberporn in Memphis, Tennessee
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Science: Big beetles know no bounds
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Science: Monkeys fall victim to chimp hunting bands
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Science: Sugar-coated crystals could take gene therapy into brain
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Will Australia's pigs bite the dust?
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US ruling turns smokers into junkies
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Zappa leaves his mark on the heavens
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Ecotourism cuts a swath through the rainforest
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There's not much Brazil in Brazil
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Terns relocate to London's docklands
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Soya implants
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High-rise living linked to miscarriage in Japan
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Keep milk hormone ban, says farmers
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Drivers can damage your health
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Intruder dives into world's oldest art gallery
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US arms for a different battle
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Seattle's homeless surf the Internet
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Nuclear graveyard may face 50-year delay
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Fear and denial as infections soar
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Opinion
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A paintbox for plant genes: A colourful DNA technique, the botanical equivalent of a paternity test, is helping researchers to trace the wild ancestors of key crop plants, explains Stephen Young
Features
The sweet smell of purple
Features
Mystery molecules of deepest space: Observers are scrutinising interstellar space on the trail of the lonely molecules that lurk there. Karen Schmidt reports
Features
The trillion-bit cube: Computers' appetite for data threatens to overwhelm today's storage techniques. Sunny Bains reports on the race to develop digital memory banks to bridge the gap
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Forum: An educational experience in space - Susan Aldridge discovers infinite possibilities for helping the disabled
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Thistle Diary: You can't make a purse out of a sow's ear but . . . More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Overpowered by genorosity - Barry fox warns how sample CD-ROM software can cripple your PC
Books & Arts
Review: The case for presence of mind
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Review: Superstars on the celestial stage
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Software: From discovery the multimedia way, to fractals, advanced mathematics, travelling pocket faxes and wordprocessing for the scientist.
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The Beak of the Finch: Evolution in Real Time by Jonathan Weiner (1994)
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Review: One man's greening of the American dream
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