January - 2001 Articles
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Organ scandal
31 January 2001
Public distrust has lead to a drastic drop in post-mortem organ donations, threatening crucial research, say UK pathologists
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Bugs keep HIV at bay
31 January 2001
A dose of live bacteria could help fight off invading viruses
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Phone friend
31 January 2001
Software agents can use your pattern of mobile phone use to foil thieves
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Eating arsenic
31 January 2001
A fern is found that thrives on sucking up large amounts of the toxic pollutant
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Killer clicks
31 January 2001
Dolphins stun their prey with sound, suggests video evidence
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Predicting disaster
31 January 2001
Aerial surveys of volcanoes can help predict where deadly torrents of rock and water might flow
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Mir mystery
31 January 2001
How did radioactive uranium get into space? Russia's space station bows out with an enigma
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War games
31 January 2001
A virtual space war reveals the US's over-reliance on commercial satellites
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Cyborg plug-in
31 January 2001
The first people with completely artificial hearts could exist by July, after the US regulator gives the go-ahead
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Clone killer
31 January 2001
A few misplaced carbon atoms may be why clones die so often
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Sperm spotter
31 January 2001
A new test for male infertility can detect 'hidden' sperm defects, saving women from pointless fertility treatments
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Clone killer
30 January 2001
A few misplaced carbon atoms may be why clones die so often
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Blood alarm
30 January 2001
A wide range of patients could have received blood donated by a vCJD victim and may be untraceable
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Mir mission
29 January 2001
The spacecraft that will shunt the Russian space station to destruction docks
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Bad memories
29 January 2001
Gene-altered smart mice may be more sensitive to chronic pain
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Read my mind
27 January 2001
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Fast ignition
27 January 2001
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Bottle it
27 January 2001
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Shocking shot
27 January 2001
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Solvent hang-up
27 January 2001
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Helping herb
27 January 2001
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The idea that took the steppes by storm
27 January 2001
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Feedback
27 January 2001
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The last word
27 January 2001
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Möbius like
27 January 2001
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Radio farm
27 January 2001
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Correction
27 January 2001
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Animal instincts
27 January 2001
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A healthy mind
27 January 2001
Why are great apes resistant to the ravages of dementia?
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Tourists in the mist endanger gorillas
27 January 2001
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Eau de body
27 January 2001
What scent says about you
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A taste for poison
27 January 2001
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Hot laughs
27 January 2001
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Name that tune
27 January 2001
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Food of the immortals
27 January 2001
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Sliced by ice
27 January 2001
Did frozen rivers cut a swathe through the Red Planet?
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Cod's last gasp
27 January 2001
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Don't stop the music
27 January 2001
Satellite radio for cars? Two firms are attempting the impossible
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Line up here for a tangled Universe
27 January 2001
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Hit and run on the high seas
27 January 2001
Slowing down the traffic will save right whales from extinction
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Bag that bug by its barcode
27 January 2001
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Eat beans to stay rich and green
27 January 2001
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Sex on eight legs
27 January 2001
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27 January 2001
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You scratch my back…
27 January 2001
Favours in baboon society may come with a price tag
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Flights of fancy
27 January 2001
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The strange case of Mr Calculus
27 January 2001
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Oliver Sacks
27 January 2001
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Trouble in paradise
27 January 2001
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Loyal citizen scientists
27 January 2001
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The rat catcher
27 January 2001
By the time you've read this, hundreds of thousands of rats will have been born, destined to colonise our congested cities, spreading disease and economic havoc wherever they go. Why is this so? City life and misguided policies mean today's
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Starry tales of genes and geniuses
27 January 2001
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Antony Hewish
27 January 2001
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Red, willing and able
27 January 2001
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Tales of the sea
27 January 2001
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27 January 2001
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What happened to the depleted uranium?
27 January 2001
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Stay at home
27 January 2001
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Off the rails
27 January 2001
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Famines don't just happen
27 January 2001
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Washington diary
27 January 2001
Andreas Frew reports from Washington
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Chinese medicine goes high tech
27 January 2001
Bob Johnstone looks at a productive partnership in Taiwan
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Finding the energy
27 January 2001
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. . . . .
27 January 2001
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A very modern murder
27 January 2001
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To gently glide
27 January 2001
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Anyone out there?
27 January 2001
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Stand your ground
27 January 2001
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Defending Einstein
27 January 2001
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Never say die
27 January 2001
As the world warms, what's in store for the Amazon rainforest? New Scientist goes digging for clues from the ice age
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Press V for virus
27 January 2001
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Boston coffee party
27 January 2001
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Stem cell go-ahead
27 January 2001
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Explosion sank sub
27 January 2001
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Out in the open
27 January 2001
Will public scrutiny make risky trials safer?
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We are all guilty!
27 January 2001
It's official, people are to blame for global warming
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Confusion over BSE test
27 January 2001
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Light stops dead
27 January 2001
Does the key to quantum computing lie in freezing a light beam?
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Stench bugs
27 January 2001
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Animal madness
27 January 2001
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Balance of power
27 January 2001
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Battle of the quarks
27 January 2001
Rival atom smashers clash at an international conference
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Drying bogs may release years of pollution
27 January 2001
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Impossible goal
27 January 2001
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Adieu Amazon?
27 January 2001
Clear away the trees, Brazil says it's time to get digging
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Sobering thought
27 January 2001
Drunks can keep the lid on their temper, if they want to
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Even water makes you stupid
27 January 2001
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Scope for improvement
27 January 2001
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Fires on film
27 January 2001
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Blame game
27 January 2001
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Worm warning
26 January 2001
The first computer worm to attack Linux-based systems in the "wild" is a wake-up call, say experts
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Indian earthquake
26 January 2001
A huge earthquake kills thousands in north-west India
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Rice unravelled
26 January 2001
The sequencing of the first entire genome of a crop plant may unlock genetic secrets for all cereals
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Kumbh Mela
25 January 2001
The largest human gathering ever is photographed from space
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Galapagos disaster
25 January 2001
The full impact of the oil spill on wildlife may never be known, as existing data on animal numbers is poor
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Bug uncovered
25 January 2001
A deadly bacteria's genome is sequenced, revealing "shocking" surprises
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Food facts
25 January 2001
There is no evidence that organic food has health benefits, says report
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Bug sniffing
25 January 2001
Spraying bacteria up children's noses slashes the recurrence of an ear infection
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Satellite radio
24 January 2001
Billions are being spent to try to deliver ad-free radio stations from satellites to moving vehicles
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Body odour
24 January 2001
Your genes help determine which perfume you prefer, according to new research
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Mir mission
24 January 2001
The spacecraft that will drag the derelict Mir space station to destruction is launched
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Galapagos disaster
23 January 2001
Favourable winds move the oil slick away from the islands as criticism of the state oil company emerges
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Cracking up
23 January 2001
An ultrasonic detector of rail defects may have missed the crack that caused a fatal UK crash
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Light of life
23 January 2001
If aliens are signalling Earth with laser pulses, a new telescope could pick up the call
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Clone age
23 January 2001
UK scientists can now create early cloned embryos in the search for treatments for serious diseases
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Kursk sinking
23 January 2001
The Russian submarine was sunk by a double explosion, not a collision, suggests seismic data
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Troubled waters
22 January 2001
A fuel spill close to the Galapagos Islands is an environmental "disaster"
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Hot warning
22 January 2001
Climate scientists blame "most" climate change on human activity, as governments prepare for key talks
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Animal lab saved
22 January 2001
Anonymous financial backers save UK animal testing lab, but opponents vow to fight on
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Cloning catch
22 January 2001
New rules allowing therapeutic human cloning may be blocked in the UK parliament
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Perfect partnerships
20 January 2001
How can you turn materials that are weak and brittle into materials that are tough and strong? The secret lies in selecting the right combination of metals, fibres, plastics and ceramics to give you the exact material you need. Welcome
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Cloning controversy
20 January 2001
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The last word
20 January 2001
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Heart of darkness
20 January 2001
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Oh deer
20 January 2001
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Dirty deeds
20 January 2001
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Slipping to our attention
20 January 2001
Ian Lowe uncovers a natural disaster
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Britain and the Space Station
20 January 2001
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Feedback
20 January 2001
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Strip off for success
20 January 2001
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Flap about Venice
20 January 2001
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Flight 007
20 January 2001
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Give us a smile
20 January 2001
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Never trust a tsetse fly
20 January 2001
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P for …
20 January 2001
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20 January 2001
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Intoxicating Minds by Ciaran Regan
20 January 2001
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One too many
20 January 2001
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No sweat
20 January 2001
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A clear winner
20 January 2001
Magnets and microchips combine in a transparent supermaterial
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Moment-after injection could block HIV
20 January 2001
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Gene machine
20 January 2001
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I'm your tiniest fan
20 January 2001
A horde of micropropellers will keep your chips chilled
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Northern exposure
20 January 2001
If Siberia sneezes the whole northern hemisphere catches a cold
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From the heart
20 January 2001
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Pollution purgatory, fact or fiction?
20 January 2001
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Star Wars: the new menace
20 January 2001
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Would you believe IT?
20 January 2001
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Cushy acoustics
20 January 2001
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Take your partners
20 January 2001
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What went wrong?
20 January 2001
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After the war is over
20 January 2001
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Uranium-burgers
20 January 2001
Of course depleted uranium's safe, the government says so
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20 January 2001
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Meddling with monkeys
20 January 2001
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Wild heritage
20 January 2001
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Too close for comfort
20 January 2001
If it's monkeys today, will it be humans tomorrow?
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Death of Noah
20 January 2001
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Signs of a split
20 January 2001
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The big cull
20 January 2001
Time is running out for a band of Scandinavian grey wolves
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Cut-off genes are all the rage
20 January 2001
Philip Cohen reports from the Gene Therapy 2001 meeting in Snowbird, Utah
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Spirit of the road
20 January 2001
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Everyone's recorder
20 January 2001
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Talking with skyscrapers
20 January 2001
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The freelance poisoner
20 January 2001
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Morning Glory
20 January 2001
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Fool's gold
20 January 2001
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Fighting back
20 January 2001
As Africa's spokesman on biotech issues at the UN, Tewolde Berhan Egziabher has taken on the West and won. He has convinced developing countries to hold off licensing genetically modified crops until more is known about the risks. He has al
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The prince's poison
20 January 2001
To some people, the lilac-petalled autumn crocus is just a pretty flower, a welcome touch of colour in a drab October landscape. The delicate blooms, known to British countryfolk as meadow saffron or dainty maidens, spring up after the leav
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Bestsellers from Cambridge
20 January 2001
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From eternity to here
20 January 2001
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Westminster Diary
20 January 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Hug the mountain eat the rock
20 January 2001
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A drug in rehab
20 January 2001
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Fair play
20 January 2001
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The ideas machine
20 January 2001
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Sprinters set the pace for flagging hearts
20 January 2001
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Revolution aborted?
20 January 2001
Embryonic stem cell research may grind to a halt
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Big science gets the silent treatment
20 January 2001
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An ill wind
20 January 2001
Campaigners on climate and the environment fear the worst
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Farewell to arms control
20 January 2001
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Udder nonsense
20 January 2001
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Lacking that spark
20 January 2001
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Treated like garbage
20 January 2001
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To hell and back
20 January 2001
Braving plasma storms and pillars of fire leaping millions of kilometres into space, a tiny craft will give us our first close-up look at the Sun, and then return for more. Ben Iannotta reports
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Junk food
20 January 2001
A diet of plastic pellets plays havoc with animals' immunity
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Carefree calling
20 January 2001
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Early-bird gene
20 January 2001
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Jungle jeopardy
19 January 2001
The Amazon rainforest could be hugely damaged by road building, say scientists
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Brain teaser
19 January 2001
Serious doubts are raised about the idea that tough clumps of protein in the brain cause Alzheimer's
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Living forever
18 January 2001
Ordinary, non-cancerous rat cells can replicate forever, scientists discover – limitless human transplant tissues could follow
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Stop light
18 January 2001
Scientists stop light in its tracks, overcoming a fundamental obstacle facing quantum computing
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Feeding debate
18 January 2001
No labels are required for genetically-modified foods, says US regulator, and other foods cannot be called "GM-free"
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Brain teaser
18 January 2001
Serious doubts are raised about the idea that tough clumps of protein in the brain cause Alzheimer's
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3D data
17 January 2001
Mobile phone channels could be trebled by exploiting the reflection of radio waves
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Keeping it in the family
17 January 2001
English cattle inbred for over 300 years are almost clones but remain fertile
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Cool running
17 January 2001
Computer chips might one day be cooled by armies of microscopic fans
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Rapid relaxation
17 January 2001
A secret of sprinting success could boost sluggish hearts
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Go ahead
17 January 2001
Removing a block on nerve regrowth could lead to treatments for spinal injury
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Mapping hormones
17 January 2001
Women's spatial abilities vary as their hormone levels rise and fall
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Testing times
17 January 2001
Britain's largest animal experiment company could close down, but will the experiments simply be exported?
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Wiggle it
16 January 2001
NASA delay the next space shuttle launch to "wiggle test" cables
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Big hitter
16 January 2001
Particle physicists produce the densest matter ever – recreating the first moments of the Universe may follow
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Breaking the ice
16 January 2001
Analysis of giant ponds of melt water shows the Antarctic ice shelves are closer to break-up than thought
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Divine ship returns
16 January 2001
China's plan to put astronauts in space marches on with the landing of its second test mission
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Turn over
15 January 2001
Farming without a plough? The largest ever study of green farming shows surprising successes
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Seek and destroy
15 January 2001
Immune cells engineered to hunt down and kill leukaemia cells start human trials
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Tall, dark and stranger
13 January 2001
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Don't drink the water... it's radioactive
13 January 2001
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Stuck on chips
13 January 2001
Even quantum computers can't do without old fashioned silicon
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Dinner with destiny
13 January 2001
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Bestsellers from Melbourne
13 January 2001
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Westminster Diary
13 January 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Whispering sands
13 January 2001
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Soak up the sunshine
13 January 2001
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Sexual healing
13 January 2001
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Hand over your keys
13 January 2001
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The peanut in your garden
13 January 2001
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Splendid isolation
13 January 2001
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Peak experiences
13 January 2001
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Walk like a pendulum
13 January 2001
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Out of this world
13 January 2001
He is one of the world's leading authorities on planets outside our Solar System. But although Geoffrey Marcy has been officially credited with finding 38 of the 53 suspected worlds that have been identified so far, he was beaten into the h
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A firm start
13 January 2001
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Primeval crystal
13 January 2001
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Long-lasting qubits
13 January 2001
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Herd mentality
13 January 2001
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The lost city
13 January 2001
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Vaccine victory
13 January 2001
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Mad calf
13 January 2001
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2001: end of an odyssey
13 January 2001
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Pile 'em high
13 January 2001
Worms gave reefs a head start
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Watch out for the bends
13 January 2001
A wristwatch that monitors blood gases could save divers' lives
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Birthday suits
13 January 2001
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Nowhere to hide
13 January 2001
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Magical mystery sound
13 January 2001
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Idle hands
13 January 2001
Immune cells with nothing to do may attack the body
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Shot puts an end to body's rash behaviour
13 January 2001
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The genie is out
13 January 2001
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The right to choose
13 January 2001
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Disaster in the making
13 January 2001
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Off target
13 January 2001
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The man from down under
13 January 2001
Ancient DNA strikes at "out-of-Africa" theory
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Doomed tombs
13 January 2001
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Batten down the hatches
13 January 2001
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There's no such time as the present
13 January 2001
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Death by chocolate
13 January 2001
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Dead seas
13 January 2001
As temperatures rise, the fate of ocean life hangs in the balance
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Now where did I put it?
13 January 2001
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Terrestrial tot
13 January 2001
Our home planet may prove to be wet behind the ears
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Some like it hot
13 January 2001
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Melting mountains on the skids
13 January 2001
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Speed bumps give humpbacks a surprise boost
13 January 2001
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Magnets help ships repel all boarders
13 January 2001
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All loved out
13 January 2001
Popping Es could club your sex life to death
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The clearest beer
13 January 2001
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Pay-as-you-go radio
13 January 2001
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Skinny tellies
13 January 2001
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Drilling for Martians
13 January 2001
NASA plans to burn holes in the Red Planet
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Don't drink and fly
13 January 2001
Stay sober on long-haul flights to avoid "economy-class syndrome"
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Being there
13 January 2001
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Making space a safer place
13 January 2001
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Rights for trees
13 January 2001
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Fleet of foot
13 January 2001
Umbrella boots are perfect for getting around in microgravity
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The last word
13 January 2001
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Biological warfare
13 January 2001
Ian Lowe looks at a hidden battle
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Shifting thoughts
13 January 2001
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13 January 2001
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Feedback
13 January 2001
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Against the flow
13 January 2001
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Loads of energy
13 January 2001
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Fish vs mozzies
13 January 2001
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In the deep
13 January 2001
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Brains and bevvies
13 January 2001
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Black whole
13 January 2001
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Low-tech teeth
13 January 2001
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Rare clone dies
12 January 2001
The first animal born after the DNA of one species was put into the egg of another dies after just 48 hours
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Balancing act
12 January 2001
Techniques used to rehabilitate NASA astronauts can "cure" dyslexia, claims a British team
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Unfair advantage
12 January 2001
Golf handicaps give better players a serious edge reveals statistical research
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Micro-plumbing
12 January 2001
Electric charges can be used to pump fluid around tiny pipes
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Monkey business
11 January 2001
The world's first genetically-modified monkey could aid medical research but some scientists are sceptical
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Living and dyeing
11 January 2001
The key to stem cells' remarkable feats of transformation may been revealed by a dye
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Killer virus
10 January 2001
An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon
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Night shift
10 January 2001
Home-building worms may have laid the foundations of great coral reefs
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Climate key
10 January 2001
A single enzyme in peat bogs is the only thing preventing a catastrophic release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide
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Old timer
10 January 2001
The oldest mineral on Earth is found, challenging ideas about the birth of the Moon
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Beware booze
10 January 2001
Stay sober on long-haul flights to avoid "economy-class syndrome"
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High danger
10 January 2001
British and Australian doctors warn that blood clots may be killing thousands of airline passengers
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Pigs in space?
10 January 2001
China launches mystery animals into space, a step towards Chinese astronauts
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Weapons threat
09 January 2001
European fears over depleted uranium prompt crisis talks but it is not yet known if the reported illnesses exceed expected levels
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Concrete evidence
09 January 2001
Virtually every stone in Stonehenge has been straightened, moved or set in concrete, new research reveals
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Assembly line
09 January 2001
A marvel of biochemical engineering means cells can produce DNA enzymes to attack cancer
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Ancient Aussie
09 January 2001
The oldest human DNA ever recovered dents the "out-of-Africa" theory
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Clone alone
08 January 2001
The birth of the first cloned animal created using the egg of another species is imminent
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Patently useful
08 January 2001
The US toughens rules for gene patenting but opponents remain unhappy
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Fatal flaws
08 January 2001
Scientists aim to make gene therapy safer by learning lessons from the death of Jesse Gelsinger
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Divide and conquer
08 January 2001
Slicing a virus in half makes it 100 times better at smuggling active genes into cells
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Space fission
08 January 2001
A rocket powered by thin films of nuclear material could get to Mars in two weeks, say scientists
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Acquired taste
06 January 2001
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Ancient bones still good for soup
06 January 2001
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Next-generation fashion
06 January 2001
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Easy does it
06 January 2001
An aerial rope trick takes the ouch out of touchdown
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Daily dose of rocket fuel
06 January 2001
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Great expectations
06 January 2001
Landmark vote clears the way for stem cell research in Britain
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Sizzling skies
06 January 2001
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Vaccine boost
06 January 2001
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Total impact
06 January 2001
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Single file please
06 January 2001
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Remember your HRT
06 January 2001
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Big, buoyant and back in business
06 January 2001
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Bright encounter
06 January 2001
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But is it art?
06 January 2001
What do you call a transgenic rabbit that glows green when you expose it to blue light? A funky pet? A lab animal? A violation of animal rights? Here's a clue: its creator is the Chicago-based artist Eduardo Kac. He says the rabbit, calle
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Walking with Neanderthals?
06 January 2001
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Thrash it out
06 January 2001
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A cut above
06 January 2001
Smart scalpels could transform cancer surgery
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Who needs 3G?
06 January 2001
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Cold war, hot secret
06 January 2001
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Dinner's on the Web
06 January 2001
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Shock of the fold
06 January 2001
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Porpoise-built nets
06 January 2001
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Screen test
06 January 2001
When should a women start having routine breast X-rays?
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Tainted air
06 January 2001
Is ozone responsible for the asthma epidemic in children?
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Keep drinking the water
06 January 2001
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Sex on eight legs
06 January 2001
A silky little number is all a girl needs for a good night out
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Pluto or bust
06 January 2001
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Eyes on the prize
06 January 2001
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Great ape escape
06 January 2001
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Iridium watches the weather
06 January 2001
Failed phone system finds a new lease of life
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Deep waters
06 January 2001
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Asteroids face ant attack
06 January 2001
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There's a lot of them about
06 January 2001
The future is looking brighter for coelacanths
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Bodies of evidence
06 January 2001
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Pleased to meet you
06 January 2001
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Bang goes the dung
06 January 2001
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06 January 2001
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06 January 2001
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Feedback
06 January 2001
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Waterworld
06 January 2001
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Change the script
06 January 2001
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Fuelling debate
06 January 2001
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Not so hot
06 January 2001
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06 January 2001
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Prize writing
06 January 2001
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Patently alien
06 January 2001
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Moving on up
06 January 2001
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Stand your ground
06 January 2001
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Westminster Diary
06 January 2001
Comment from Tam Dalyell
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Play time
06 January 2001
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Fool the mind
06 January 2001
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The perfect bait
06 January 2001
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Invisible galaxies
05 January 2001
A trail of stars and gas reveals a dark matter galaxy, say astronomers
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Killing fields
05 January 2001
AIDS is devastating rural communities, threatening widespread food shortages in Africa
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Test ban
05 January 2001
UK team recommends immediate three-year moratorium on the use of genetic test results by insurance companies
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Cutting risk
05 January 2001
UK government spends £200m to lower the chance of vCJD transmission during surgery
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Death by chocolate
05 January 2001
High blood glucose levels are putting half of adults at higher risk of fatal heart attacks, says a UK study
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Quantum quiet
04 January 2001
Delicate quantum states can be shielded from destructive noise, say physicists, bringing quantum computers a step closer
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Hair today
04 January 2001
A treatment stopping the hair loss that follows chemotherapy is developed in rats
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Mountain concern
04 January 2001
Melting permafrost threatens Alpine communities with deadly landslides
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Snoring snag
04 January 2001
Real-time scans of severe snorers reveal why surgery is often unsuccessful
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Bad medicine
03 January 2001
Disorderly and dangerous contractions of heart muscle can be calmed by a tarantula toxin
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Cutting edge
03 January 2001
Molar teeth, the secret of mammals' evolutionary success, may have developed twice
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Flood defence
03 January 2001
Malaysian ants keep their nests dry by peeing the floodwater away
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Wipe out
03 January 2001
A vaccination programme has almost eradicated Meningitis C in the UK in just one year
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Impotence boost
03 January 2001
A new treatment for male impotence may work where Viagra does not
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Brain gain
02 January 2001
Leading UK scientists could receive huge hikes in salary
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Insulin inhaler
02 January 2001
A new inhaler for diabetics could replace daytime injections
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Sea change
02 January 2001
Ice in the heart of Antarctica is melting, causing sea level rise