Recycling in Cairo: a tale of rags to riches - Cairo's 'unofficial' refuse collectors, the Zabbaleen, are more efficient at recycling rubbish than anyone in the West. Their industry has brought some wealth but what is their future?
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Culture clash: children and science - Children have their own common-sense view of how the physical world works. Teachers need to understand these ideas before they can challenge them effectively
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The bulging biosphere: Most of the species that inhabit our planet live around the equator, giving the diversity of the biosphere a distinct bulge. Why do most species prefer life at low latitudes?
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Creating Babbage's dream machine: How we built the Difference Engine
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The life and times of a computing pioneer: Charles Babbage invented all sorts of things besides automatic calculating machines, including 'cow catchers', flashing lighthouses and speedometers. Did he spread his talents too thinly?
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Counting the cost of catastrophe: April's cyclone brought havoc to vast areas of Bangladesh. Government and individuals are now starting to rebuild the economy and pick up the pieces of shattered lives
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Patents: Talking pipes
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Patents: Patent information
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Technology
Technology: Hydrogen-powered electric car sets sceptics wondering
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Technology: Computers hot up with cooler chips
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Science: Missing chaos challenges rule of quantum mechanics
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Science: Watery microbes fuel fresh fears over genetic release
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Science: How a parasitic fly can fool bumble bee studies
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Technology
Technology: Converted motors shed light on rural homes
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Technology: Cocktail of viruses finger the filthiest farms
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Science: One in the eye for plants
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Technology: Computers face up to 'Grand Challenges'
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Science: Unusual gene makes some men less vulnerable to blood clots
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Science: Quasar hides its light under a dusty doughnut
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Science: Synchrotron reveals structure of superconducting fullerene
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Nuclear power
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Unbearable behaviour in France
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Collision course
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Russian rethink
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River boss quits
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Forensic inquiry
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Package deal
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Natural protein provides clue in the hunt for drugs to combat AIDS
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Britain backs its PAL
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Virus may thrive in lining of sex organs
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Chin joins AIDS exodus
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Bush faces ultimatum on immigration ban
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Targets for training science teachers 'set too low'
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Government cash U-turn
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Scotland fuels debate over nuclear storage
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Conservation plan tipped to rescue London's Zoo
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Radioactive atoll
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Researchers take step towards gene therapy
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Defector exposes Saddam's nuclear secrets
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America backtracks on Antarctic mining ban
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'Bureaucracy' may compromise embryo watchdog
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Opinion
Features
Recycling in Cairo: a tale of rags to riches - Cairo's 'unofficial' refuse collectors, the Zabbaleen, are more efficient at recycling rubbish than anyone in the West. Their industry has brought some wealth but what is their future?
Features
Culture clash: children and science - Children have their own common-sense view of how the physical world works. Teachers need to understand these ideas before they can challenge them effectively
Features
The bulging biosphere: Most of the species that inhabit our planet live around the equator, giving the diversity of the biosphere a distinct bulge. Why do most species prefer life at low latitudes?
Features
Creating Babbage's dream machine: How we built the Difference Engine
Features
The life and times of a computing pioneer: Charles Babbage invented all sorts of things besides automatic calculating machines, including 'cow catchers', flashing lighthouses and speedometers. Did he spread his talents too thinly?
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Forum: The mystery of the musical box - Ian Cross tries to find out what makes music what it is
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Forum: They don't eat people in Somerset - Leastways, not any longer, says Ralph Estling
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Forum: Death by natural causes - John Timson wonders whether it is always right to save the doomed
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Forum: Stress? Who needs it? - Bruce Charlton finds that the concept of stress is getting on his nerves
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Review: Questions of life and death
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Review: 'Energy for Planet Earth' by Robert Malpas
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Review: Eye on the heavens
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Review: The length of memory
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Review: The roots of the electrical industry
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Review: It is all in the mind
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Talking Point: Reading the biotechnology barometer
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