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Designer Sperm

Could human sperm be genetically altered?

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Computer Musical Appreciation

Could a computer ever learn to appreciate Louis Armstrong?

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Top Quark

Have scientists in Chicago really found a dozen examples of "top quark"?

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Murder, Magic, and Medicine

The history of extracting chemical substances from natural sources - including poisons

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New Glass, Better Lenses

How new glass technology will create better lenses

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Boxgrove Man

Dr Chris Stringer, Boxgrove Man, and the origins of Europeans

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Francis Crick

Nobel Laureate Francis Crick with his new book, The Astonishing Hypothesis

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St Pancras Station

Report from St Pancras Station in London as architects fight to save the building

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New Frontiers in Science

Imaging technology in brain surgery, and HERA, the electron-proton collider in Hamburg

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Death

Why do we have to die, what can kill us and what happens to the body after death?

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Gene Therapy

How gene therapy could be used to fight deadly forms of cancer

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Animal Behaviour

How studying animal behaviour could improve animal welfare

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Good Vibrations

The scientific principles of stringed instruments

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Reducing the Greenhouse Effect

Reducing the greenhouse effect, and computers that can learn to solve problems

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1000th Edition

Featuring transgenic sheep: particle physics: and Nobel laureate Professor George Porter

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Learning to Speak

How do children learn to speak, and why do some learn more slowly that others?

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Auditory Discrimination

How does auditory discrimination work?

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High Blood Pressure

How naturally produced endothelin-1 effects blood pressure

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Woods Hole

A special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts

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The 125th Anniversary of Nature Magazine

From the discovery of the electron in 1897 to Watson and Crick's structure of DNA in 1953

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Virtual Reality

How realistic is virtual reality? And when will the technology be publicly available?

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Turkey

A special edition looking at the geology and astrology of Turkey

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The Fight Against Aids

The world fight against Aids. Also, a new test for memory

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The Human Brain

Unravelling the workings of the human brain

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Keyhole Surgery

A special report on keyhole surgery

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Scientific News

Scientific headlines of the year including: Is the Universe Younger than its Stars?

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Festive Occasions

Why do some people enjoy parties more than others?

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Genetic Revolution

How the genetic revolution is changing the plant world

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High-Tech Industry

The growing trend for companies to invest in pure research

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Evolution

Evolution's long route out of the primordial swamp

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