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Cancer probe has glowing future
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Forum : Eyeless in the observatory – Schoolchildren may never get the chance to see the rest of the Milky Way, laments Charles Seife
Kinky characters – Telephone handsets, climbing plants and soil bacteria all follow the same rules
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Tricky light – They may look like exploding stars to amateur astronomers, but the truth is more mundane
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Jet-setting black holes bare all
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Stars of the small screen
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Where am I? – Navigation satellites’ signals are vulnerable to jamming
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Dowsing on the Moon – An American probe returns to the Moon in search of ice
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Exotic planet is gone with the wind
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Gel makes go-faster chips
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Light-hearted planet
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Noise power
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