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| This year’s Nobel in medicine is a hard-earned honour. A scientist had to become his own guineapig, report Prasun Chaudhuri and Sanjit Bagchi |
| The Nobel Prize notice issued by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute last Tuesday congratulated this year’s winners in physiology and medicine, Dr Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, for their “tenacity and a prepared mind to challenge prevailing dogmas.” But what the Nobel committee d... |
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| God & science |
| It was on the second day at Cambridge that enlightenment dawned in the form of a testy exchange between a zoologist and a paleontologist, Richard Dawk
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| Physics Nobel for studying light |
| A scientist who worked out a theory describing the behaviour of light using quantum mechanics and two scientists who used that knowledge to develop a
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| Less work, more play |
There’s no getting around it: Sometimes, a company’s name just seems
like part of its product name, and anything else just sounds weird. Take, for
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| QED: What’s meant by god?
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The bone of contention between Richard Dawkins and Simon Conway Morris at a seminar organised by the Templeton Foundation in Cambridge, UK, (as George Johnson reports on Page 3 of this issue) needs a little more elaboration, now that the inhabitants o
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Diseases are only mature ideas
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LOVERS AND LIVERS
Jacalyn Duffin
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The heavy, black cloud of depression can afflict people of all ages. Around 40,000 young people in Britain are taking some form of prescribed medication to treat it. However, last week, experts at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excell ... | 
