Chips off the young blocks: For an electronics invention to be commercially viable it needs more than a bright idea - as a competition for young engineers recently showed
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No Southern comfort at Rio?: Poor nations are unfairly blamed for the world's environmental ills and the Earth Summit will do little to alter this perception, argue two leading greens from the developing world
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Animal experiments the American way: ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs in the US have more leeway than colleagues abroad when it comes to deciding what animal experiments can be performed
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The laboratory rat's guide to Europe: The single European market could be good news for laboratory animals. It might reduce the number used in toxicity tests - if only bureaucrats could agree
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The resistible rise of skin cancer
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Science: Flatfish is a dab hand at monitoring pollution
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Technology: News travels fast after Californian quakes
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Technology: TV fails to stump up for hidden cameras
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Science: Cancer drugs target cells that other treatments miss
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Science: Does etching lend light to silicon?
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Science: Scorpions in a cold climate
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Science: Superfluid helium could make neutrino detector
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Science: Ewe-turn for maternal behaviour
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Science: Gene gives clue to how cancers grow
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Science: Black hole caught swallowing a star
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Science: Pacific warming
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Socialising in cyberspace: San Francisco is home to a unique experiment aimed at creating a computerised community. Social rules are new and fluid and people are redefining what passes for acceptable behaviour
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Space probe wakes
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Breast still best
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Cholera campaign
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Crystal composition steals the show
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Future format
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Rocket row
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Sleep of death
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Coastal defence
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Probably the oldest lager in the world . . .
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Soils spoilt by farming and industry
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Charity may join gene-mapping venture
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Stepping out across the innovation gap
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Britain signs deal to protect dolphins
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Rio forest will be gone in 30 years
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Wobbly start for space salvage crew
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Writs fly in battle to save flock of crows
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Physics adds muscle to British industry
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Nuclear bonfire for chemical weapons
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Fear for lives of Iranian journalists
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Draft treaty fails to put limits on emissions . . .
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. . . as Europe weakens carbon tax
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Australia to crack down on fossil smugglers
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Opinion
Features
Chips off the young blocks: For an electronics invention to be commercially viable it needs more than a bright idea - as a competition for young engineers recently showed
Features
No Southern comfort at Rio?: Poor nations are unfairly blamed for the world's environmental ills and the Earth Summit will do little to alter this perception, argue two leading greens from the developing world
Features
Animal experiments the American way: ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs in the US have more leeway than colleagues abroad when it comes to deciding what animal experiments can be performed
Features
The laboratory rat's guide to Europe: The single European market could be good news for laboratory animals. It might reduce the number used in toxicity tests - if only bureaucrats could agree
Features
Health
The resistible rise of skin cancer
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