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A kinder, gentler killer

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Seeing the light

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A kinder, gentler killer

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The Time Travelling Mountain

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Just a normal town...

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Power to the pea plant

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Seeing the light

VISION has been restored to mice with a disorder that also affects humans. A mutation in the Rpe65 gene means that people with Leber congenital amaurosis can't metabolise vitamin A. This blocks the biochemical pathway that restores the retina's photopigments after they have been struck by light and causes the retina to degenerate, leading to …

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Beastly genes

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Really cooking

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How to forecast storms from space

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The Net strikes back

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Cutting edge

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Going to seed

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Clocking off

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The magic behind the mighty mollusc

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Salty seas

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Brain saver

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Toying with smallpox

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Aching for food

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Feathers fly

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Brainy move

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Infected cells

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Bringing colour back to Pingelap

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Bad smell, good egg

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And now...Frankentunes

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Picture phone

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Sideways periscope

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Surviving Great Smoky

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Forget me not

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Caught out

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Picky pests

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Flu vaccine shortage

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Booming TV

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Jet set displays

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Major havoc ahead

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Technology

Rawl plug rage

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Technology

Go shoot yourself

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Technology

Credit where credit's due

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Now give me your cache

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The end of the beginning

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Fount of life

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Mice to the rescue

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Precision engineering

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

EVIDENCE that mobile phones cause interference has essentially been anecdotal in the past, but we now have it on the good authority of Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that cellphone radiation interferes with aircraft electronics. I am a regular customer of British Midland (BM) and fly each week from Edinburgh to London when Parliament is …

Opinion

Leaving the wood for the trees

Opinion

A cure at any cost?

Opinion

Speaking out

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A right to know?

Opinion

The coming revolution

Opinion

Features

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A kinder, gentler killer

IN AUGUST 1998, an 83-year-old man in Brawley, California, went out to mow his lawn. He had been a bee-keeper, and the bee boxes still stood in his garden—empty, he thought. But unknown to him, a new colony of bees had moved in. They didn't like the noisy lawnmower, and at its sound hundreds of …

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The Time Travelling Mountain

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Just a normal town...

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Power to the pea plant

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Pity the cockoo

According to Nick Davies, the cuckoo is not the playboy of the bird world we once thought it was. In Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats, he shows that cuckoos and other parasitic tricksters are involved in an evolutionary arms race, struggling to stay one deceptive step ahead of their unfortunate hosts. Published by Academic Press, …

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Pearls before swine

Books & Arts

We're all guilty

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Click on

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Sitting comfortably

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Hard target

Books & Arts

Creatures of chance

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Feedback

JAPAN'S health and welfare ministry has identified a major source of dioxin pollution, but it won't be easy to stop it. Dioxins and other poisons are pouring out of Japanese crematoria because the deceased are being cremated alongside objects they cherished during their lifetimes, such as golf clubs, watches, fishing rods and karaoke microphones. So …

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