Imperfect mirrors of the Universe
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Making maths make money: Will analytical models of complex systems in nature also predict the movements of financial markets? Mathematicians in the US are hoping to get rich while they find out
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The secret world of animal experiments: Despite the 1986 act, the public still has little say on what is done in animal experiments. Ethical committees could give lay people a voice
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A fair press for animals: When they write up their research, scientists should give details of any adverse effects on animals so that others can avoid making the same mistakes
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Are power lines bad for you?: People first drew possible links between power transmission lines and cancer in 1979. Evidence gathered since then has been inconclusive, but new studies could provide a way forward
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Technology
Technology: 'Brass rubbings' breathe life into architects' plans
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Technology: Latex men help doctors to predict strokes
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Technology: Slick paint gives graffiti the brushoff
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Technology: BBC scrambles for profits in the dead of night
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Technology: One sniff of lemon stuns a barking dog into silence
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Technology: Computer games make learning virtually irresistible
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Technology: The flight of the powerless aeroplane
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Science: A radical approach to electromagnetic fields
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Science: Metallic buckyballs in a class of their own
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Science: Did comets give Titan its atmosphere?
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Technology: Will ozone in the laundry leave detergents all washed up?
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Technology: Fake fish steer dolphins away from danger
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Science: Genetic code gains a new letter
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Science: Earthquake tension builds up in California
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Focus: Who pays for the Earth Summit? - Good intentions are all there is to show for more than a year of preparations for the Earth Summit. The most fundamental issue is still unresolved: who will pay? And how much?
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Asimov dies
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Sick seals
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Starring role for Atlantis astronatus
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Renewable energy
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Squabble over how to spend Exxon's Valdez compensation
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Concern over cars
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French HIV tests
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Doping horses
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Ukraine shuns links with republics
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Demolition of a disastrous dam
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French firm in Australian radar rumpus
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Gene may give early clue to bowel cancer
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Is it a bat or is it a monkey?
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German naturalists defend Red Army's legacy
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Genetic tests identify plane crash victims
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Academia 'needs links to industry'
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Southern Europe's women 'face greater AIDS risk'
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Legal row breaks out over hepatitis test
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Patents thwart genome project
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Japanese river scheme survives barrage of criticism
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Britain keeps its cool as the world warms up
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Why the Japanese like it sour. . .
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'Open skies' treaty suffers blurred vision
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Europe exposed to ultraviolet risk as ozone levels hit all-time low
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Hermes boosts Russian space industry
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Earth Summit 'seriously devoid of vision'
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Opinion
Features
Imperfect mirrors of the Universe
Features
Making maths make money: Will analytical models of complex systems in nature also predict the movements of financial markets? Mathematicians in the US are hoping to get rich while they find out
Features
The secret world of animal experiments: Despite the 1986 act, the public still has little say on what is done in animal experiments. Ethical committees could give lay people a voice
Features
A fair press for animals: When they write up their research, scientists should give details of any adverse effects on animals so that others can avoid making the same mistakes
Features
Are power lines bad for you?: People first drew possible links between power transmission lines and cancer in 1979. Evidence gathered since then has been inconclusive, but new studies could provide a way forward
Features
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Review: A novel interpretation of icy inspiration and heroism
Books & Arts
Review: Operating systems that gum up the works
Books & Arts
Forum: Dear Minister. . . - Arnold Wolfendale offers some advice for an incoming minister for science
Forum
Thistle Diary: Not with a whimper but a bang - Tam Dalyell finds out about Russian nuclear research
Forum
Review: Ancestral cannibalism gives us food for thought
Books & Arts
Forum: The problems of being bioethical - Priscilla Alderson and Naomi Pfeffer search for links between science and society
Forum
Review: Men rule maths, but that is not OK.
Books & Arts
Review: Changing the rules of the game in process
Books & Arts
Review: Edinburgh's Festival of Science
Books & Arts
