Fact, fiction and fossil DNA: Analysis of ancient DNA should give clues about the origin of species and how they evolved over time. But only if the DNA really is ancient
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Atoms caught in a web of light: Atoms cooled to within a whisker of absolute zero and trapped by crisscrossing laser beams may be weird science, but it could produce better microchips and more accurate atomic clocks
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How thin is your skin?: Skin seemed like such a good way of keeping the outside world at bay until toxicologists started to worry about the harmful chemicals that breach the barrier
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Freezing time at the zoo: Forzen sperm, eggs and embryos at the heart of controversial reproductive strategies in humans could also be central to preserving endangered species
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Patents: Dial-a-pen
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Patents: Grey layers
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Patents: Blast-proof data
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Patents: After-dinner squints
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Science: Surprise legacy of Germany's flying bombs
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Science: Urine tests confirm fears about passive smoking
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Technology
Technology: How to pick a drug in a million
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Technology
Technology: We'll be back after the break
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Technology
Technology: Sound response makes for kinder cuts
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Science: Double black hole flares up on cue
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Science: Leafy hords invade the Arctic
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Science: First flowers emerge form Triassic mud
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Science: Thinning bones blamed on single gene
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A lizard in the bush . . : The massive world trade in reptiles and amphibians threatens to drive some species to extinction. Biologists are now trying to protect the animals in the wild while still supplying the market
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Anchors away
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Russian trial
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Electronic libel?
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Border bother
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Boost for bones
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Top Guns trigger sea lion stampedes
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Holy row over Christian physics and maths
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Information overload may swamp climate computers
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Let's have a cup of nice, safe plutonium
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If you can't save them, freeze them
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Great little pyramid
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Ozone warning
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Brinkmanship threatens JET
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Shaken Californians hunt for quake trouble spots
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If it's warm it must be a workday
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Could HIV tests land doctors in court?
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Britain clears the airways for digital radio
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France swaps debt for rights to tropical timber
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Computer giants join the search for aliens
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Lords lay into Waldegrave's partnership plans
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Opinion
Features
Fact, fiction and fossil DNA: Analysis of ancient DNA should give clues about the origin of species and how they evolved over time. But only if the DNA really is ancient
Features
Life
All in the mind
Features
Atoms caught in a web of light: Atoms cooled to within a whisker of absolute zero and trapped by crisscrossing laser beams may be weird science, but it could produce better microchips and more accurate atomic clocks
Features
How thin is your skin?: Skin seemed like such a good way of keeping the outside world at bay until toxicologists started to worry about the harmful chemicals that breach the barrier
Features
Freezing time at the zoo: Forzen sperm, eggs and embryos at the heart of controversial reproductive strategies in humans could also be central to preserving endangered species
Features
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