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Natural solutions give their best: Suppose a sales rep has to visit several towns. What is the shortest, most economical route? This is just one optimisation problem that is benefiting from lessons learnt from nature
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The incredible shrinking Mississippi Delta
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Genes unlimited: A way of making millions of copies of any sequence of DNA has given molecular biologists a precise technique for detecting just one gene in a cell. Researchers have only begun to explore its potential in areas such as forensic science an
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Science: Shuttle's sonic booms put Los Angeles skyscrapers to the test
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Science: Mouse model brings leukaemia treatment closer
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Technology
Technology: Drugs industry turns animals into 'bioreactors'
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Technology
Technology: Foam model gives surgeons a spitting image
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Technology: Two designs shortlisted in search for safer ferries
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Sorry, ducks
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Porton challenge
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Planet X
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Science: Why arctic ozone has survived - so far
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Science: How careful sailing first won the Pacific
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Congress moves to clean up America's air
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Three Mile Island group wins battle for radiation data
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Aspirin aid
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Medical conflicts
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Join the dots into a well-known company
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EPA goes East
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Space talk
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Europe founds a school for astronauts
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CFC substitutes will still add to global warming
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Traders accused of beating ban on rhino horn
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International aid rescues plankton project
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Moscow 'blackmails' Armenia over polluting plant
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Soviet warning over axed radar station
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Tuna fleets banned from 'bombing' dolphins
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Science journals on the road to Romania
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Public being 'misled' over asbestos dangers
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How Britain's seismometers got it wrong
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WHO to speed up work on drugs for tropical diseases
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West Germany's gene law weakens role of public opinion
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Polish bishops denounce anti-AIDS protests
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Opinion
Features
Humans
Get thee to a laboratory
Features
Natural solutions give their best: Suppose a sales rep has to visit several towns. What is the shortest, most economical route? This is just one optimisation problem that is benefiting from lessons learnt from nature
Features
The incredible shrinking Mississippi Delta
Features
Genes unlimited: A way of making millions of copies of any sequence of DNA has given molecular biologists a precise technique for detecting just one gene in a cell. Researchers have only begun to explore its potential in areas such as forensic science an
Features
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Crossing the great divide / Breaking the language barrier
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Forum: Chemists as accountants - Why do so many of them go into the City?
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Forum: Whatever happened to the mini ice age? - The relationship between solar cycles and global warming
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Of genetic manipulations and Lizzie
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Review: Not accounting for women's work - 'If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics' by Marilyn Waring
Books & Arts
Forum: So what's so bad about green authoritarianism? - The idea that the countryside should be sacrificed for houses and jobs
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Review: A close look at the silver linings - 'Spacious Skies' by Richard Scorer and Arjen Verkaik
Books & Arts
Review: Detecting the watchers - 'Reflections on Intelligence' by R. V. Jones
Books & Arts
Review: Dinosaur art meets dinosaur science - 'Dinosaurs Past and Present' an exhibition at the Royal Museum of Scotland, 1 March to 27 May
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