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Science: Broken symmetry in the genetic code?
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Cinderladdin and the forty beanstalks: Missed the EastEnders Christmas Special? Father-in-Law getting on your nerves? Time to plug into our puzzle pages . . .
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Science: Hairy balls in higher dimensions
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Let T equal tiger . . . The shapes and patterns of living creatures may owe as much to mathematics as they do to biology
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Science: Thousand-page proof vindicates Fermat
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Science: Mathematicians learn how to read the ant-trails
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Review: How to survive in an unreal world
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Science: The mathematics of synchronised mountaineering
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Science and Fiction: Huge and nebulous dystopias
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Science: Finding the energy to solve a knotty problem
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Science: A million ways to wrap a rubber band round a potato
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Science: Testing time for numbers prime
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