Elephant in the hole
15 November 2006
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Ways of seeing
15 November 2006
A simpler life-form than a virus
15 November 2006
Classic article from 1960: Research on animal and human disease are forcing biologists to consider a hitherto unsuspected class of infective agents
The genetic code explained
15 November 2006
Classic article from 1962: We are privileged to witness a major breakthrough in biology, courtesy of Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner
The flashing maser
15 November 2006
Classic article from 1960: If physicists can produce monochromatic light which is coherent like radio waves, it might be used for communications
Abortion ban reversed in South Dakota
15 November 2006
Residents vote to overturn a law banning almost all abortions in the state, but the issue is unlikely to go away
Herbal medicines given air of effectiveness
15 November 2006
There is a concern that the official registration of herbal medicines in the UK may be misconstrued as medical approval
Fleeting particle has shades of Higgs
15 November 2006
The world's most wanted particle, the Higgs, may have already appeared under our very noses without anyone noticing
Drug trial double standards
15 November 2006
Why don't people who volunteer for clinical trials in the developing world get the same safeguards as those in the west, asks Sonia Shah
Influenza wave from the east
15 November 2006
Classic article from 1957: A major flu epidemic is approaching from the Far East, having originated in Hong Kong