Ancient remedies find modern use
Medicinal Chemistry
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who is also well known for poetry and short stories: "He was working on the edge of the...
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Man-made mountains to climb
Life at the Extremes
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Guided tour of body's dreamy spires
Introduction to Protein Architecture
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Scant search for the Maker
The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism
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Bottom line on cheap loo roll
World Economics
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Abstracted ancestors
Family and Community History
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Holocaust engulfs the Jews' story
The Journal of Holocaust Education
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Wilder shores of nonsense
Philip Anderson appreciates a good debunking of pseudo-science. Martin Gardner is always a good read, whether as the world's pre-eminent expositor of mathematical puzzles and games or in his second...
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Our genes: little Hitlers or ciphers?
The Century of the Gene
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Why animal magnetism is all about me, me, me
Dearest Pet
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Opening the book on dissent
Despite living under a threat of death for over a decade, Salman Rushdie believes taking offence is all part of living in a free world. Nick Holdsworth reports from the 11th Prague Writers' Festival...
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If you hear a rumble in the jungle it's probably just the elephants talking
We might be a long way from talking to the animals, but according to Joyce Poole, when it comes to the African elephant, we are starting to understand them. Wachira Kigotho reports. Like the...
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Goebbels: a complex drama in two acts
David Barnett uncovers the conflicting theatrical pretensions of the Nazis' chief cultural thug, Joseph Goebbels. On May 10 1940, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary, "At night to the theatre....