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Inventing Africa

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Give us your genes

THE hunt for the genes that predispose people to disease is shifting away from isolated populations. Instead, researchers are starting to look at mixed populations such as those of the US and Britain, where several large genetic studies are being launched. A Californian company, DNA Sciences, hopes to collect information on the health and genomes …

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How the fastest cat hooks its dinner

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Hot homes

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Grow slow

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Primal pathway

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Fishy story

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DNA tweezers

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SETI largesse

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CJD creeps up

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Life

Resurrection

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Life

Reading your mind

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Save our wine

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Life

Speed freaks

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Life

Early warning for radiation sickness

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Technology

Maximising minimalism

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The dimension hunters

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Creationists cast out

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Dead in the water

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I'm forever blowing bubbles

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High anxiety

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Game swappers

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Giving up?

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Download a classic

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Bit of a spin

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Repel boarders

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They're alive!

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Lost for words

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Technology

Now it can be told

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Hidden persuaders

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Sunblock in the orchard

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Sugar and spice

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Self-destruct

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Warning signs

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Sheep in tug of war

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Ex-comet found

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Monsanto's gift to poor

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Supercells

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Safe waste for at least a thousand years

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Silicon bugs

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Humans

Westminster diary

I HAVE been interested in turtles and tortoises ever since my step-grandmother gave me a pet tortoise when I was a child. So you can imagine the alarm I felt on reading about the meeting in Nairobi of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (New Scientist, 22 April, p 19) . Fred …

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Demanding physics

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Access granted

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Take a chance

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Resistance is useful!

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Trigger happy

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All planets great and small

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THE water was cool and still, perfect for a dip. The swimmer had struck out confidently from the shore, when suddenly a dark shape appeared below him. There was a commotion in the water, and then a stabbing pain in his left leg as a set of sharp teeth sank into his flesh. Thrashing his …

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Restoring stuff

This wonderfully persuasive book should be on the reading list of every bon viveur. Restaurants have never really been about food, argues historian Rebecca Spang in The Invention of the Restaurant. They began in late 18th-century Paris, she recounts, as establishments in which the upper classes could make public show of their delicate stomachs by …

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Back to basics

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The collectors

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Self improvement?

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Feedback

WE RECENTLY reported that Australians are so confused about the country's new goods and services tax (GST) that the Australian Tax Office has had to set up a helpline to answer their queries (22 July) . For those who are still confused, reader Alistair Pike points out that they can try reading the actual GST …

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