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Life
Pigeons, pests and people
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Plastics, waste not, want not: Unless we can reclaim more plastics from waste, recycling will never be worthwhile. But this has not stopped manufacturers from trying to develop better recycling methods
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Earth
Climate Change: Global warming, back to the future
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No surrender in Sarawak: In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, protests against logging are a matter of life and death, not only for those who live in the rainforest but also for those who campaign to save them
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Science: Isolating the chemicals that cause cancer
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Science: Birds with a talent for applied chemistry
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Science: Structure of HIV receptor laid bare
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Science: Why women aren't men
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Technology
Technology: 'Sensitive flowers' of British hi-fi may be trampled
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Technology: Ice-breaker tipped to make waves on Tyneside
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Technology: Roadside detector brings mobile polluters to light
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Science: 'New men' hold sway among tamarins
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Science: Deep-sea fishing dries up the gene pool
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Science: Dinosaur count reveals surprisingly few species
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Painless smoking
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Radio survey
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Nuclear power sails down the river
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Rules for fishing
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Rebates on rubbish
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Sjogren's virus
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Copernicus lives
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Mad breeding
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Nuclear plans divide Baltic neighbours
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Czechs push ahead with Danube dam
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American pressure thwarts studies on 'abortion pill'
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Cash crisis threatens 'big science'
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CERN dips into pension fund
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A flake of film foiled Hubble
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Women, AIDS and survival
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The mercury the physicists left behind
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Queensland tops world skin cancer league
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Bleak future for British conservation
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Logging agreement fails to protect Sarawak
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One small scoop for media kind
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Opinion
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The Galactic empire
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Life
Pigeons, pests and people
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Plastics, waste not, want not: Unless we can reclaim more plastics from waste, recycling will never be worthwhile. But this has not stopped manufacturers from trying to develop better recycling methods
Features
Earth
Climate Change: Global warming, back to the future
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No surrender in Sarawak: In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, protests against logging are a matter of life and death, not only for those who live in the rainforest but also for those who campaign to save them
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Forum: An approximate view of the world - It doesn't always pay to be exact
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Thistle Diary: Luck holds for albatross - Comment from Westminster
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Forum: The perils of impure speculation - It's easy to set off on a wild goose chase
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Forum: Don't count it, audit - A warning for environmental scientists
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Forum: Let me through, I'm a lawyer - A worrying trend in medicine
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Go in the machine
Books & Arts
Forum: Inside the postgraduate poverty trap - It's not just undergraduates who have a raw deal
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Review: Gasps of wonder - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Cultivate a weather eye
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Review: An 18th-century eye on nature - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Visitors of mystery - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Work it out for yourself - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Wet, wet, wet - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: The autumn yields it crop of greenery - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Stars of wonder, stars of light - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: How can you draw a crater on the Moon, sketch a glowing nebula or photograph a constellation? - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Botanical treasures from the tomb - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents - Dudley Moore
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Review: Mandelbrot's set on a mug - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Videos
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Review: Chaos from Cornwall - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Bend it, break it, build with it - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: There was a jolly miller - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: There I was, nothing on the clock - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Just wild about bats - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Blow, blow, thou winter's cold - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: A frabjous book - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Tales of the weird and wonderful - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: They never yet could find my measure - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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Review: Stalk the wild trajectory - Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents
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