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Is anyone in there?

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All for one!

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Give that bird a mouse

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They've seen a ghost

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News

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Bad eggs

People in the north of Norway have been warned by the country's food safety agency to cut back on eating seagull eggs because they are contaminated with high levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The eggs are considered a delicacy in Tromsø and the Lofoten Islands. Some people eat up to 40 a year, but …

News

Protection for rats

News

Cool the warming

News

Don't blame the superwaifs

News

Dusted off

News

Double whammy

News

Scuppernonged

News

Too receptive

News

Huntington's hope

News

What a corker

News

Hula counter

News

Dangerous work

News

Double trouble

News

Cancer killers

News

Bugs make life a little better for children with AIDS

News

The kindest cut

News

Technology

A matter of depth

News

Language of life

News

A hole is born . . .

News

Blast is past

News

Humans

The great escape

News

Pass it on

News

Technology

Sparkling motorways

News

Technology

Lullabies to order

News

Technology

Powered by fat

News

A wetter Mars

News

Mind

Born with the munchies

News

Mind

So you think you're in love?

News

Mind

Mind phantoms

News

Never miss a beat

News

They've got the nerve to control incontinence

News

Bad vibrations

News

Blocking malaria

News

More tests on hands-frees

News

No safe place

News

Young, but mad

News

Indian moonshot

News

Humans

Life or death

News

Who's flying this thing?

News

Beware the birds

News

A chip for an eye

News

Opinion

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Planning for a genetic future

AUSTRALIA now has a national biotechnology strategy. It was launched in Brisbane earlier this week by science minister Nick Minchin at the annual conference of the Australian Biotechnology Association (ABA). He told about 300 delegates that the Federal government was committing more than A$30 million to support biotechnology. The measures were all in place, he …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

The Green Revolution turns sour

Opinion

Is it life, Jim?

Opinion

Man on a mission

Opinion

Get talking

Opinion

Who you gonna call?

Opinion

Features

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Is anyone in there?

IT COULD happen to you. A knock on the door in the dead of night. A sober-faced police officer saying, "I'm sorry, but there's been an accident." A surreal rush to the hospital, where your loved one lies in a coma, somewhere between being and nothingness. Months pass without the patient regaining consciousness. The doctors …

Features

All for one!

Features

Give that bird a mouse

Features

They've seen a ghost

Features

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Life is beautiful

Invited to a festival, film-maker Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was assured that the organiser would avoid using the word "scientific" in describing his films. "Avant-garde" was a far better word. So what exactly was Painlevé filming? As editors Andy Masaki Bellows, Marina McDougall and Brigitte Berg show in Science is Fiction, Painlevé was one of the …

Books & Arts

Smashing buildings

Books & Arts

The concept's the thing

Books & Arts

Identity crisis

Books & Arts

A Consumer's Guide to GM Food by Alan McHugh

Books & Arts

Warmongering

Books & Arts

Glass from past

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

A GROUP of chemists at the University of West Florida recently found themselves in a rerun of a famous urban myth. Readers may remember the one about the hospital cleaner who supposedly unplugged a patient's life-support system so that she could use the power socket to plug in her vacuum cleaner. The chemists in Florida …

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Regulars

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