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Know your enemy

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Close cousins

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Enigma variations

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High in protein

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Beyond the genome

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Land of opportunity

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Extended family

IN THE past two months, four more moons have been discovered orbiting Saturn, bringing the total to 22—more than any other planet in the Solar System. The moons are only 10 to 50 kilometres across. Their orbits have not yet been calculated, but they are thought to be irregular. This suggests that, like one of …

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Space

Strange face of Eros

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Life

Too darn hot

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Life

Reef relief

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The dark side of black cats

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Surprisingly cool

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Head cases

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Blown wide open

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Guardian genes

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Space

Europa's lifelines

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Bugs vs bugs

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Technology

Chilled out

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Technology

Wired cuisine

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Technology

A cleaner rig

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Bursting bubbles

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Deadly dose targets prostate cancer

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Virtually indestructible

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Power of two

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Quick escape

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Fat watch

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Feel no pain

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Life

Eve came first

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The human tragedy may be just beginning

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Slower, costlier, safer

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Walk tall, die young

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Home truths

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All change

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Coming unstuck

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Maize on the move

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Trojan breach at Microsoft's gate

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Health

How it all went so horribly wrong

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A killer is born

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Mad meat

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

PHILIP COHEN'S article on "antibody therapies" to treat drug addiction, or "vice vaccines" as they are sometimes called (10 June, p 22) , interested me greatly. In a nutshell, the idea is that it should be possible to vaccinate people against addictive chemicals. I asked Mo Mowlam what the government's attitude is to such a …

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Show us the money

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Into the unknown

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Switched on

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Choice is all

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End of an era

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Know your enemy

IMAGINE fighting a war against a mysterious enemy. You don't know what he looks like, where he is hiding, or how or when he plans to strike. Your adversary is highly coordinated, with sophisticated tactics and weaponry to attack from many angles at once. All you have are a few rusty hand grenades to lob …

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Close cousins

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Enigma variations

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High in protein

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Beyond the genome

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Land of opportunity

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Much ado about nothing

The Book of Nothing by John Barrow, Jonathan Cape, £16.99, ISBN 0224059629 WE REALLY don't know whether nature abhors a vacuum. But humans, at least those who inquire into nature in the Western tradition, clearly do. They have ignored nothingness, or denied it. They have filled it with various "ethers". Now we have the quantum …

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AN UNEXPECTED spin-off of the overfishing of our seas is an accumulation of old fridges and washing machines on the ocean floor. Let us explain. Modern trawlers are sweeping the sea clean of fish. The only way rod-and-line anglers can get any sport is to fish from the shore or go out to sea in …

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