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Where the power lies: While the world may have vast stocks of fossil fuels, exploiting them is far from straightforward
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Review: A fascinating obsession
Books & Arts
Science: All in the family?
News
Science: When bird-eating spiders ruled the Earth
News
Review: Cooking up a storm
Books & Arts
Technology
Technology: News travels fast after Californian quakes
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Review: A sponge for streams, a home for saltflats
Books & Arts
Ozone hole hunters look north
News
When sleeping giants wake
Features
Lucky escape for Europe’s oldest flying insect
News
Slicing through a continent: For the first time geophysicists have modelled a cross section through Europe’s continental plate. Already, their results are surprising, but the real work has only just begun
Features
Mountain building under the microscope
Features