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Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world’s most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe
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Gene therapy: the struggle for acceptance
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Technology: America cuts its launchers down to size
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New row over plans for US space station
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Japan may help US to ‘explore’ Mars and the Moon
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Technology: California cleans up its cars with methanol
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Protest groups move to halt space mission . . .
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. . . while experts ponder Ariane explosion
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Americans deprived of contraceptive choice, says report
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European nations want action now on global warming
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NASA moves to defuse space station row
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Bush rejects scientists’ call for action on global warming
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