Green designs on supersonic flight: Supersonic airliners for the next century are already taking shape on the drawing board, but still no one knows how much damage they are likely to cause the environment
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Dreams of the perfect plastic: Clingfilm and car bumpers are useful and fairly versatile, but wouldn't it be nice if you could design polymers to do whatever you wanted . . .
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When cleaning up is hard to do: An innovative project to restore Birmingham's polluted waterways could become a technological showcase for the rest of the country-but only if the political will is there
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Life
The subtle side of sex
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Space
Whatever became of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space?
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Technology
Technology: . . . and hello to playing music without keys
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Technology
Technology: Mobile cleaner sucks up PCBs
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Technology: Satellite rivalry reaches new heights
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Science: Shedding light on sticky polymers
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Science: Tunnels in space smoothed out big bang fireball
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Technology: It's virtually goodbye to computer keyboards . . .
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Science: The bad news about 'good' cholesterol
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Science: Insects are immune to mass extinctions
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Science: Visual cues govern gupp family planning
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Space yields the secrets of the heart
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Glowing reports on Thorp are a 'sham'
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Malaysia cracks down on loggers
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Hazards in the health laboratory
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Music fails to move mosquitoes
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Prize job
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Frog virus
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Pigs among the pines
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Titanic blast
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Sick trees
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Nauru settles
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Rise in refugees
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The Pentagon's green flag of convenience: American attack submarines, spy planes and satellites are being turned over to the peaceful pursuit of science. Are these new opportunities all that they seem?
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Science: Gene decides what tickles the tastebuds
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The night of a thousand turds
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Gut reaction fights fat
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South Africa neglects growing AIDS crisis
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Gemini project falls at the final hurdle
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Battle resumes over who found heavy elements
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Supercollider consortium sacked
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India backs down on Narmada dam
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Rain brings disease and death
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The boys done good with a sip of coca tea
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A chip to veto violence on television
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Forgive me computer, for I have sinned
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Nice research, shame about the profits
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Opinion
Features
Green designs on supersonic flight: Supersonic airliners for the next century are already taking shape on the drawing board, but still no one knows how much damage they are likely to cause the environment
Features
Dreams of the perfect plastic: Clingfilm and car bumpers are useful and fairly versatile, but wouldn't it be nice if you could design polymers to do whatever you wanted . . .
Features
When cleaning up is hard to do: An innovative project to restore Birmingham's polluted waterways could become a technological showcase for the rest of the country-but only if the political will is there
Features
Life
The subtle side of sex
Features
Space
Whatever became of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space?
Features
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Forum: Goodbye to life insurance? - John Timson wonders if genetic testing could mean the end of life insurance as we know it
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Thistle Diary: Plenty of things to grouse about - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Review: Bar codes and boulders
Books & Arts
Forum: Happy birthday, MRC - Gail Vines unearths some intriguing anecdotes about the Medical Research Council's past
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Review: Open surgery for the tough-minded
Books & Arts
Review: Careful Carruthers, that paper clip is loaded
Books & Arts
Review: How to become a ghostbuster
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Review: Exhausting history of the Nazi atom bomb
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Review: Birdwatching beneath the feathers
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Review: Is it drizzling in Siberia?
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Review: A warning from the world of physics
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