Surveying the options: Can a nation's mappers do a proper job without government support? David Rhind thought they could, but that was before he became the head of the Ordnance Survey
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Trees to fuel Africa's fires
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A trip into the unknown
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Not all fun at the fair: Many people face serious injury at funfairs this bank holiday weekend. The government's safety inspectors want tougher rules to control the way fairground equipment is designed to thrill
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Licensed to thrill: Human frailty rather than engineering expertise, it seems, limits the design of modern rollercoasters. But they are still becoming bigger and more daring
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Technology
Technology: Tyres in inferno yield oil and gas
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Patents: Self-destructing data
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Technology
Technology: Speedy sledge offers retreat from storms
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Technology
Technology: Fridge reprieved
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Technology
Technology: How Doctor Who was rescued from oblivion
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Technology
Technology: Battery mower cuts down on pollution
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Technology
Technology: MRS makes memories from spare parts
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Science: Do birds get hooked on hand-outs?
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Technology
Technology: Faults highlight problems of nuclear software
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Science: The darkest galaxy cluster of all
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Science: Mollusc menace unmasked
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Environment
Science: Some baboons like it wet. . .
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Science: Quiet! Toxic chemicals at work
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Science: Early vertebrates given new teeth
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Science: Planet proves to be mere mirage
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Science: Riddle of the 'time wanderer'
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Swan song for the neglected dolphin
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Making waves in the North Atlantic
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Technical fixes 'cause poverty and hunger'
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Saxon boat builders on the right tack
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Memory jogger
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Focus: Return to Turtle Bay - Four-fifths of the Mediterranean's loggerhead turtles lay their eggs on one Greek beach - but for how much longer?
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Cheap TB drug 'too dangerous' for Africa
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Boost for safer paracetamol
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Caring for those who suffer for their art
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Plutonium ship secretly sets sail for Europe
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Japan buys into gene project
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US colleges wary of software battle
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Coffins lift the lid on atmospheric change
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Museum audit
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Fungus foragers threaten forests
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Industrial research slumps in eastern Germany
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Japan takes stock of its technology gap
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Foresters pass sentence on grey squirrel
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Is government funding harming Britain's research?
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Medical research suffers rigor mortis
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Public seal of approval for science
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Parasitic proteins provide the key to malaria vaccine
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Privatisation costs jobs at technology group
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Meteorite shakes Dutch province
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Opinion
Features
Surveying the options: Can a nation's mappers do a proper job without government support? David Rhind thought they could, but that was before he became the head of the Ordnance Survey
Features
Trees to fuel Africa's fires
Features
A trip into the unknown
Features
Not all fun at the fair: Many people face serious injury at funfairs this bank holiday weekend. The government's safety inspectors want tougher rules to control the way fairground equipment is designed to thrill
Features
Licensed to thrill: Human frailty rather than engineering expertise, it seems, limits the design of modern rollercoasters. But they are still becoming bigger and more daring
Features
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Forum: Does business have an attitude problem? - Harold Thimbleby explains why market forces do not bring out the best in science
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