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Meet the Nobel Science Prize-Winners
Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Chemistry and Physics go to research from as early as 1970s

Link between Hormone and Vulnerability to HIV
Do contraceptives containing progesterone increase the likelihood of HIV infection?

New CJD Marker enables Diagnosis
New marker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in spinal fluid helps diagnosis

A Better View of the Birth of a Galaxy
The Hubble Space Telescope's new pictures show how galaxies might form

BSE Epidemic 'will be over by 2001'
The BSE epidemic years away but the worst is already over, report Oxford researchers

Funding Cuts Result in unsafe UK Labs, claim Scientists
Save British Science group blames unsafe university labs on government funding cuts

New Report 20 Years after Seveso Disaster
Unusual sex ratio reported in births in Seveso in the first years after dioxin accident

Are these the Remains of Microbes from Mars?
Nasa's claims that fossils of micro-organisms have been found in a meteorite from Mars

Early Bird is 115 million years old
Spanish bird fossil is the first specimen with alulae or wing flaps for slow flight

Partial Repair of spinal Injury in Rats
Research into repairing the spinal cord with nerve fibres in rats raises hopes for humans