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Designer solvents for clever chemistry: Fluids designed to act as 'universal solvents' can bring together molecules that otherwise would never meet and react
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Where the wild plants are: Ecologists have just completed the largest ever survey of Britain's vegetation, paving the way for a radical new approach to plant conservation
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Is anyone out there?: NASA researchers have started to search the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life. What sort of life do they hope to find?
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The strains of the HIV war
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Science: Algae help to clean up contaminated water
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Science: Vitamin E could reduce heart risk
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Science: Did methane curb ice ages?
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Technology: This is your hip joint calling
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Technology: Neural network takes the twinkle out of stars
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Technology: Sunny future for solar voltaic cells
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Technology: Mini CD jogs into the recording race
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Technology: Pocket encyclopaedia
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Technology: Chaos equations pack more images into computers
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Technology: Commercial satellite receiver beats Pentagon at its own game - Brett Wright reports from the International Aerospace Congress in Melbourne
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Technology: Computer juggling act provides happy landings
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Patents: Greener fridges
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Patents: Posture alarm
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Patents: French battle to outsmart Amstrad
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Patents: Chilled out
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Patents: Farewell to fraud
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Science: Hole at the centre of the Galaxy
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Science: Chemists mimic energy molecule
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Power companies fight Green law
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Indians cheer halt to Canada's giant hydro scheme
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Abortion pill in US
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Sky spies
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Chauvinists in space
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Bubble people shoot at northern lights
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HIV increase
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Sex prints
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Tree wise men
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Mission to sell
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Call for independent forensic advice
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Luxury research
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French 'super-ministry' will take on US and Japan
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Villagers will have a stake in Indian forest
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Legal loophole allows altered organisms to travel by post
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Hunt is on for the last of the 'fossil' fish
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White House changes rules for genetic engineering
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Teeside takes on industry over local health
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Polytechnics to join research elite
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Promising Down's syndrome test .. at a price
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Jailed Soviet reactor is homeward bound
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Opinion
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Saving mud monuments: Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust - the words sum up the fate of buildings made from earth. But experiments in the New Mexico desert are bringing ancient adobe back from the dead
Features
Designer solvents for clever chemistry: Fluids designed to act as 'universal solvents' can bring together molecules that otherwise would never meet and react
Features
Where the wild plants are: Ecologists have just completed the largest ever survey of Britain's vegetation, paving the way for a radical new approach to plant conservation
Features
Is anyone out there?: NASA researchers have started to search the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life. What sort of life do they hope to find?
Features
Health
The strains of the HIV war
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Thistle Diary - Comment From Westminster: It's the supercomputer that counts
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Forum: When science should be a humanity - Bruce Charlton calls for a revision of the ways we teach science
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Review: Maternity and the marketplace
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Review: Pick of the Paperbacks
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Forum: If it's not saving, it's not working - Kenneth Mellanby is unconvinced by the low-energy bulb
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Forum: The orphan bears of Romania - Christine Laurent reports on the bears Ceausescu left behind
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Forum: A plague of planets - Ken Croswell wishes astronomers would stop crying wolf
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Review: The nature of purpose
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Review: Britain's inventions of the past
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Review: An American eye in the sky
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Review: Bones talking
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Review: How good is technology's weather eye?
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Talking Point: Making equality work for women
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