Designer drugs head for the marketplace: Pharmaceuticals companies spend millions searching for new drugs; some chemists prefer to design them. Their approach could help us to fight AIDS, diabetes and high blood pressure
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Breaking the mould: Strong engineering plastics are one of the fastest-growing parts of the world's chemicals business. They are also forcing suppliers and customers into closer relationships to develop new manufacturing technologies
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The turn of the screw worm
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Laboratories for all: Children with disabilities are out in the cold when it comes to doing science experiments. A new generation of gadgets is now bringing them into the school laboratory
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Enabling technology?: Technology could transform the lives of many disabled people, giving them greater independence and control over their lives. In practice, however, there is too little, too late
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Chaos, catastrophes and engineering
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BSE - what madness is this?: As beef is banned from the school menu and sales of Britain's national joint plummet, scientists are in pursuit of the unknown agent that causes BSE - 'mad cow disease'
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Technology
Technology: The greening of Eureka
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Technology: Three-dimensional TV is really old hat
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Technology: Air conditioner freezes in the heat of the night
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Technology: Farmers offered cheap aerial surveillance
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Technology: Gene probes may help to spot listeria in food
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Technology
Technology: Tobacco could be new food source
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Technology
Technology: Last round in battle of CD video giants
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Technology
Technology: Japan's electromagnetic ship prepares to test the water
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Science: How to repair damaged nerves
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Science: Are 'minicomets' peppering the Earth's atmosphere?
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Health
Science: Brain diseases may be triggered by toxins in food
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Science: Children of firefighters may suffer heart defects
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Science: Small wormholes change our picture of the big bang
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Science: The Midas touch
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Gene call
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Reverse drain
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Think-tank rethink
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Walk wary
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Science: Molecule slips through a loophole
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. . . as dry spell saps British soil
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MRC launches inquiry into animal experiments
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American biology student sues over dissection
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Hunters turn protectors on Brazil's turtle beaches
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Timber traders fail to quell fears over rainforests
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Backs and money
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Chimps 'immunised'
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The touch that turns to money
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Fast French
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Dutch army attacks soil pollution
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Religious cult lands in hot water over drilling scheme
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs oppose bid to lift whaling moratorium
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British Telecom rings the changes on phone fraud
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Australian telescope catches cosmic calamity
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Drought threatens French power supplies . . .
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. . . as Germany brings forward ban on CFCs
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US seeks major Japanese role in supercollider
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Supersonic plans 'threaten ozone layer' . . .
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Opinion
Features
Designer drugs head for the marketplace: Pharmaceuticals companies spend millions searching for new drugs; some chemists prefer to design them. Their approach could help us to fight AIDS, diabetes and high blood pressure
Features
Breaking the mould: Strong engineering plastics are one of the fastest-growing parts of the world's chemicals business. They are also forcing suppliers and customers into closer relationships to develop new manufacturing technologies
Features
The turn of the screw worm
Features
Laboratories for all: Children with disabilities are out in the cold when it comes to doing science experiments. A new generation of gadgets is now bringing them into the school laboratory
Features
Enabling technology?: Technology could transform the lives of many disabled people, giving them greater independence and control over their lives. In practice, however, there is too little, too late
Features
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Review: Fiction mangles science
Books & Arts
Review: Darwin on the brain
Books & Arts
Forum: Science with a human face - More researchers should write autobiographies
Forum
Forum: The real thing - school dissections
Forum
Forum: Missing, presumed dead - A bird in the Sun
Forum
Review: Retrieving the scholarly past
Books & Arts
Review: Rise and Decay
Books & Arts
Review: Breaking the chains of deductive logic
Books & Arts
