The fires that cracked a contintent: Rivers that run the wrong way, enormous eruptions of lava and the break-up of the continents could all have a common cause: plumes of hot rock in the depths of the Earth
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Arthritis and the collagen connection: Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, breaks down in arthritis. A better understanding of the cocktail of enzymes at work may lead to more effective drugs
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The burning issue of Australia's toxic waste: Environmental protests have so far prevented the construction of Australia's first high-temperature incinerator. But government authorities are still determined to build one
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Stone Age psychedelia
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Korea wakes up to the environment: South Korea's economy has been seen as a model for developing countries. Now the Koreans are being forced to question the environmental costs of rapid industrialisation
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Technology: Digital paparazzi
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Technology: Coke with pores cleans emissions from dirtiest coal
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Technology: 'Intelligent newspapers' build up data on their readers
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Technology: Alarm sounds when blood rushes to the brain
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Technology: Europe joins battle for future TV
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Technology: 3-D video doubles up on tape
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Science: Damaged teeth put the horse before the cart
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Science: A slow start for the Milky Way
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Technology: Dutch 'phone phreaks' dial world for free
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Science: 'Altruistic vaccine' boosts hopes for halting malaria
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Science: Earth's ice hangs in the balance
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Science: Handy way to a more effective painkiller
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Science: Sexes battle over size of their offspring
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Anglo-French talks
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Dealer dealt with
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Legacy in milk
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Iraqi uranium
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Trade bans lifted
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Moses the moth hides in rushes
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Filling that hole
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Not rising yet
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Equal rights for experimental octopuses?
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Environmentalists condemn Japan's Olympic plans
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Not all pit bulls are killers . . .
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. . . but can you tell from their genes?
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Palladium promises cheaper route to cleaner cars
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Research project fails to build links
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America hoists the white flag in HIV war
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Patent battle over AZT heats up
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Bush backtracks on AIDS immigration
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Whalers spurn plans for 'scientific' quotas
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Asthma deaths force official inquiry
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Eclipse in sight of world's best telescopes
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America's conspiracy to buy world uranium stocks
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Life-threatening latex prompts medical alert
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Telltale 'swarms' warned of Japanese eruption
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'Green Cross' to protect environment in wars
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Opinion
Features
The fires that cracked a contintent: Rivers that run the wrong way, enormous eruptions of lava and the break-up of the continents could all have a common cause: plumes of hot rock in the depths of the Earth
Features
Arthritis and the collagen connection: Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, breaks down in arthritis. A better understanding of the cocktail of enzymes at work may lead to more effective drugs
Features
The burning issue of Australia's toxic waste: Environmental protests have so far prevented the construction of Australia's first high-temperature incinerator. But government authorities are still determined to build one
Features
Stone Age psychedelia
Features
Korea wakes up to the environment: South Korea's economy has been seen as a model for developing countries. Now the Koreans are being forced to question the environmental costs of rapid industrialisation
Features
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Forum: Have you got what it takes? - Marc Nicholls wonders about the root of scientific genius
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Forum: The truth about telephones - Barry Fox has been making his own inquiries
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Forum: Making a success out of a museum of failure - Antony Anderson wants us to own up to our mistakes
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Thisle Diary: Sackcloth and postage stamps - Comment from Westminster
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Forum: Excuse me for being alive - Jeremy Burgess is in danger of being overwhelmed by his guilty environmental conscience
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Review: Leonardo's bequest
Books & Arts
Review: A journey without answers
Books & Arts
Review: The Sun in History
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Review: Tropical tragedies
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Review: Where no birds sing
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Review: An exhibition of serendipity
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Talking Point: A plea for more European reserch
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