Looking for trouble: Animals survive only by being vigilant for predators. How can we tell where an animal is looking and what it is looking for?
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You did it, didn't you?: The police often argue that the tough 'interviewing' of suspects is the best way to extract the truth. But such strategies are exactly the sort to provoke false confessions
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Mind the bugs don't bite
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Techniques to create the nonexistent / Computer sculpture
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Good vibrations from the stars: Our planet rings like a bell after a large earthquake. Stars can ring, too. Astronomers use these vibrations to probe stellar interiors and even estimate the age of the Universe
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Sculptures in the void: You can look, but you can't touch. Computers and art meet to produce three-dimensional representations of sculptures that do not actually exist
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A unifying force for Third World science
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Technology
Technology: The bacteria at the heart of a good snowfall
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Technology: Soot turns to diamond
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Patents: It's not patently obvious
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Technology: Japanese memory chips win another round
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Technology: Engine company goes for the strong, silent type
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Technology: Sorry, no numbers - The day the US's telephone network crashed
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Technology: Proteins with a cool, quick test for salmonella
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Science: Meteorites that struck Moon disrupted Earth's ionosphere
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Science: Newborn stars may grow suddenly brighter
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Science: The making of a molecule in a billion billion
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Science: Humans may have come from Greece, not Africa
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Environment
Science: Rainforest yields 'extinct' lemur
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Science: Ancient hunters kept their meat under water
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Science: Plan to map dark matter in the Milky Way
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Dutch euthanasia provokes storm
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USSR calls for green code
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Global choking
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New role for ABRC
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Death of cave research woman
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'Ozone culprits' named by American pressure group
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Radioactive gas threatens three times as many homes as thought
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Britain in row with neighbours over North Sea dumping
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West German toxic waste may no longer go East
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Public debate rejected on tunnel safety
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NHS reforms 'could divert money from research'
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German scientists demand right to genetic research
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US asks to rejoin East-West think tank
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No evidence of asbestos danger in schools, say critics
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NASA report sparks tug of war over control of space policy
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'Hundreds killed' by South Africa's border fence
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Ignorance of malaria puts travellers at risk
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Scotland to host rail gun test-bed
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Deformities found in North Sea fish embryos
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Opinion
Features
Looking for trouble: Animals survive only by being vigilant for predators. How can we tell where an animal is looking and what it is looking for?
Features
You did it, didn't you?: The police often argue that the tough 'interviewing' of suspects is the best way to extract the truth. But such strategies are exactly the sort to provoke false confessions
Features
Mind the bugs don't bite
Features
Techniques to create the nonexistent / Computer sculpture
Features
Good vibrations from the stars: Our planet rings like a bell after a large earthquake. Stars can ring, too. Astronomers use these vibrations to probe stellar interiors and even estimate the age of the Universe
Features
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Forum: Research on a shoestring - All you need is a little ingenuity
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Forum: If ethologists studied chairs - Can biologists even begin to be truly objective?
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Thistle Diary - Another round-up from Westminster: Weapons, paternity suits and nuclear subs
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Decision time for animals / Review of 'Problems of Animal Behaviour' by David McFarland
Books & Arts
The late origins of Man / Review of 'Human Origins' edited by John Durant
Books & Arts
A flood tide of numbers / Review of 'The Empire of Chance' by Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty and Lorenz Kruger
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Forum: A briefer history of time - Time isn't what it used to be
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Forum: First, catch your baby - A plea for more romance in the schoolroom
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Forum: If the shoe fits . . . - Who says scientists don't have soles?
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Maths on the road / Review of 'Pop Maths Roadshow'
Books & Arts
Clothing dry fragments of fossil bone / Review of 'In Human Evolution' by Maurice Wilson at the Natural History Museum
Books & Arts
The fats of evolution
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