As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Why the future of data is in our DNA
Forget USB drives, we can now store data – even text, music and video – in DNA, writes SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
An array of microscopic DNA spots showing expression levels of different genes
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
IN every one of your body’s tissue cells there is one of the most information-dense storage materials that has ever existed: DNA.
Your genetic data contains the information that your body needs to grow, change and maintain each of the organs of your body and, even more apparently, unused information.
The data is stored in a sequence of four chemicals of the DNA molecule — the rungs of the famous helical ladder.
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