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Radar explorers of the Solar System: What are asteroids made of? Is there ice on Mercury? Astronomers are turning to a technique devised to locate objects on Earth to find out more about the Solar System
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Raising a stink in Boston: One of the biggest civil engineering projects in America aims to stop Bostonians polluting their harbour. But the scheme could simply create a problem for someone else
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A sticky end for disease: While sticky molecules help hold our bodies together that may not be all they are good for. By manipulating their stickiness, scientists are hoping to develop new treatments for illnesses
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Time to shelve the library?: Who needs libraries now that the world's information is accessible through computer networks? Soon only historians may be interested in these shrines to learning
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Back to the days of deadly smogs: Forty years ago this week, four thousand Londoners died in the worst air-pollution disaster on record. London has cleaned up its act, but smog is killing again in other cities
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Science: Fossils force rethink of origins of Man
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Science: How to take a 'visible X-ray'
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Technology
Technology: North sea oil rigs will be safer by design
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Science: Sun's cycles not main cause of climatic change
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Science: Warmer world brings hurricane warning
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Science: The neutron star in our backyard
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Working together
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Lies, damn lies and government statistics: In the spirit of the Citizen's Charter, the government has forced local councils to publish statistics to check on their performance. Whitehall itself is not playing by the same rules
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Science: Merlin's magic finds cosmic mirages
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Science: How to spot the farthest quasars
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Science: Macaque attacks succeed best during sex
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Science: The Milky Way's darkest secret
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Science: Hard-rock cafe
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Science: Test promises early detection of TB
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Moon runs rings round Geneva physicists
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Divisions deepen over Danube diversion
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Transplant success
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Agreement reduces damage to ozone layer
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Will Britain fail the acid test?
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Timber trouble
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Ancient art
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Advice sought
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A cell to capture the imagination
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Pig protest
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Networking Europe
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Pollute and publish
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Fusion researchers angry over White House gag
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Darwin memorabilia go under the hammer
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France takes the lead on medical ethics
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US Army asked to widen vaccine tests
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Genome patents 'a waste of time'
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Lean times for the glasshouse people
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Where have all the young men gone?
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All I want for Christmas . . .
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Governments queue up to buy US spy satellites
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What Maggie didn't want to know
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Opinion
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Life
The great brain race
Features
Radar explorers of the Solar System: What are asteroids made of? Is there ice on Mercury? Astronomers are turning to a technique devised to locate objects on Earth to find out more about the Solar System
Features
Raising a stink in Boston: One of the biggest civil engineering projects in America aims to stop Bostonians polluting their harbour. But the scheme could simply create a problem for someone else
Features
A sticky end for disease: While sticky molecules help hold our bodies together that may not be all they are good for. By manipulating their stickiness, scientists are hoping to develop new treatments for illnesses
Features
Time to shelve the library?: Who needs libraries now that the world's information is accessible through computer networks? Soon only historians may be interested in these shrines to learning
Features
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Thistle Diary: A question of Britain's heritage - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Forum: Not a job for the faint-hearted - Jeffrey Williams sounds a clarion call to rally scientists to make their case
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Forum: Creativity is all, Mr Waldegrave - David Ward spells out his fears for the future of academic research
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Review: The day the stork ran out of luck
Books & Arts
Review: Red skies in the morning
Books & Arts
Review: Variety is the spice of life
Books & Arts
Review: Images of Earth as a teacher's aid
Books & Arts
Review: Third World debt is a burden to us all
Books & Arts
Review: An aerial view of Britain's past
Books & Arts
Review: Chimpanzees and the question of culture
Books & Arts
Review: Playing God
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