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The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Rosie Bloor. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

The DNA sequences of lots of long-dead beasts are already known. What scientists hadn't discovered

is how that DNA is folded and tucked into chromosomes,

the real owner's manual for how to run, say, a woolly mammoth.

That, though, just changed.

And everyone knows the painting The Scream by Edward Monk,

but few were haunted by it like Pal Enger was, so he stole it.

Our obituary's editor describes a thief who, under different circumstances, might have

been a friend of the artist.

First up, though. The war in Europe...

Battlefields have long served as proving grounds for new technologies.

To break the stalemate, Britain had introduced the tank. Germany was using liquid fire.

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