A record for electronics: Never before has so much electronics technology been used at an Olympiad to monitor performances, record achievements and communicate with an audience of more than 3 billion
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On the right track: Athletics tracks can give runners and jumpers an unfair advantage. Barcelona has the first Olympic track with a surface designed to an international standard
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The brains behind the brawn: Why does weight-training have such a profound effect on the human physique? The answer lies in the flexibility of the genes that program muscle fibres
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Can science save its soul?: Some scientists have begun to talk confidently about understanding God and creation. They are crediting science with power it doesn't possess
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Elephants and birth control
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Table of contents
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How the media set conference agenda
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Funding levels out
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Abortions up as Russia runs out of condoms
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Berlin builds a second synchrotron
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Fast-growing HIV strain may speed onset of AIDS
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Genetic 'hoofprints' for harness horses
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Friendly apes
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Government adviser warns of cuts to come
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Watchdog targets telephone abuse
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Factories and traffic blamed for 'the hum'
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Save a bug for biotechnology
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Darwinian program pinpoints pollution
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Russian physicists give way to God
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Bill challenges secrecy over drug safety
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AIDS workers in monkey virus scare
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Technology
Technology: Electric power from satellite on a string
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Technology: Subtitles to order for films on video
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Technology: Cells and sponge support failing liver
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Technology: River robots raise the alarm on polluters
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Science: The biggest mass extinction of them all?
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Science: Method in the madness of lapwings
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Technology
Technology: NHS computer project 'should be scrapped'
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Technology
Technology: Invisible hearing aid gives eardrums good vibrations
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Science: Parental inequality leads to damaged offspring
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Science: Planet hunters pin down distance of nearby star
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Science: Enzyme takes toxins out of the soil
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Science: Will Antartctic ozone bite the dust?
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Science: Ringing the changes to make medicine easy to swallow
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Britain cannot host fusion project
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Law on paper
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Grains of sand
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Spreading east
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It's daft to be square
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Menace from tyres
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Opinion
Features
A record for electronics: Never before has so much electronics technology been used at an Olympiad to monitor performances, record achievements and communicate with an audience of more than 3 billion
Features
On the right track: Athletics tracks can give runners and jumpers an unfair advantage. Barcelona has the first Olympic track with a surface designed to an international standard
Features
The brains behind the brawn: Why does weight-training have such a profound effect on the human physique? The answer lies in the flexibility of the genes that program muscle fibres
Features
Can science save its soul?: Some scientists have begun to talk confidently about understanding God and creation. They are crediting science with power it doesn't possess
Features
Elephants and birth control
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