Will machines ever think?: Love or hate the idea of an intelligent machine, the prospect of building one remains remote. Researchers have reckoned without the complexity of the rules that govern thought
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Measuring the monsoon
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The Dutch way of death: Doctors and nurses in the Netherlands can practise euthanasia if they stick to certain guidelines. Yet many patients receive lethal injections without giving their consent
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Dying rites: the ethics of euthanasia - Most philosophers argue that euthanasia is justified when a patient is dying and suffering intractable pain. But would legalising it cast doctors and nurses as executioners?
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Making green labels stick: Shoppers will soon have some help in picking environmentally friendly products. An official label will distinguish the greenest goods
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Technology: Magnificent flight with flapping wings
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Technology: Computers aim to solve the sloshing problem
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Technology: Computer gives robot's eye view of optical surgery
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Technology: Melting moment makes a microfilm reusable
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Technology: Mars rover begins life in Death Valley
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Science: Earth's water did not come from comets
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Technology: Sounds from space could kill record store
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Science: Mappers track planet's surface
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Science: Molecular machine springs trap for cancer cells
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Science: Teething problems of a punch-up
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Science: Shrill stallions make the best fighters
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Science: Rats cured of Parkinson-like symptoms
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Science: Herpes virus turns tumour cells into sitting ducks
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Science: When bird-eating spiders ruled the Earth
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Science: Nitrogen stays fixed in Pluto's atmosphere . . .
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Focus: Nuclear alchemy: France's impossible dream? - The French want to use a fast-breeder reactor to turn long-lived radioactive elements into less hazardous waste. But the possibility of transmutation is masking more difficult decisions
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Velvet revolution no longer green
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East Europeans cash in on animal trade
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War warning
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Afraid to invest
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Directive delayed
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Hitching a lift to the wild
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Very large job
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Blow to wind power
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Soviet dump
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No widescreen TV
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Earth Summit: Earth at the mercy of national interests - Fred Pearce reports from Rio de Janeiro on the final days of the Earth Summit
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Third World fends off controls on forests
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'Malaysia is still covered in trees'
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Rio's poor make their point
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Britain clashes with US over survival of the species
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Ripped off at Rio, say summiteers
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Desert deadlock
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Oil producers campaign against carbon cuts
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Save our seas
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Bush still out on a limb
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Revamp promised for British research
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Drugs companies ahead on R&D
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Clampdown on cellphone swindlers
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Pentagon 'suppresses too many inventions'
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Insects in the driving seat
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Dumping ground
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Soviet plutonium plant 'killed thousands'
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Opinion
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Will machines ever think?: Love or hate the idea of an intelligent machine, the prospect of building one remains remote. Researchers have reckoned without the complexity of the rules that govern thought
Features
Measuring the monsoon
Features
The Dutch way of death: Doctors and nurses in the Netherlands can practise euthanasia if they stick to certain guidelines. Yet many patients receive lethal injections without giving their consent
Features
Dying rites: the ethics of euthanasia - Most philosophers argue that euthanasia is justified when a patient is dying and suffering intractable pain. But would legalising it cast doctors and nurses as executioners?
Features
Making green labels stick: Shoppers will soon have some help in picking environmentally friendly products. An official label will distinguish the greenest goods
Features
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Thistle Diary: The Minister replies . . . - More comments from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Review: The political abuse of science
Books & Arts
Forum: Psst! You wanna buy a piece of moon rock? - Philip Bagnall probes under-the-counter trading in extraterrestrial objects
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Forum: Science should turn to time share - Alison Brooks shares a money-spinning idea for science
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Review: Spiders, scorpions, mites and more spiders
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