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A genetic blueprint of your unborn baby

Health

A genetic blueprint of your unborn baby

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but it also brings dilemmas, says Harriet A. Washington

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Hail Jeremy Hunt, the new minister for magic

Health

Hail Jeremy Hunt, the new minister for magic

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If 2013 breaks heat record, how will deniers respond?

Earth

If 2013 breaks heat record, how will deniers respond?

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Biotech is thrusting us into new political territory

Life

Biotech is thrusting us into new political territory

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We're still on the slippery slope to peak oil

Earth

We're still on the slippery slope to peak oil

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New remote warfare: Smaller, better, deadlier?

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Olympic blade runner challenges our view of humanity

Life

Olympic blade runner challenges our view of humanity

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No need to panic over kids' sleep

Health

No need to panic over kids' sleep

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Why Sally Ride's sexuality really matters

Space

Why Sally Ride's sexuality really matters

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The battle of freedom and control in a networked world

Technology

The battle of freedom and control in a networked world

Networked individualism is reshaping social interaction as we renegotiate the balance between the one and the many, say Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

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Health

Rip up new Olympic sex test rules

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Life

We should have banked Lonesome George's cells

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Environment

South Korea must be dissuaded from resuming whaling

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Terror tactics: Science in the anarchists' cross hairs

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