Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
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How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport's most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf's growing popularity
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Computer chaos at medicine's cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
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Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
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Patents: Flight plan
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Technology
Technology: Ray of hope for 'old' televisions
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Technology: Monitor keeps fighter jets in finer fettle
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Technology: Old news acquires immortality on computer tapes
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Technology: 'Blind' ship sails bettter, says pilot
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Technology: A new calling for computerised phones
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Technology: Robots check the rotting of the reef
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American 'shoot to sterlise' policy
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Storm leaves sandy signature
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Vaccination risks are 'too small to count'
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Massive impact
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Pick and mix
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JET strike
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Spinning the light fantastic
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Sciencefest
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Fallow and fatal
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Dounraey danger
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Killer colour
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Living in harmony with forests: Next week, the first international system is launched for labelling tropical timber that has been sustainably produced
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Science: Buckyball electrons prefer pentagons
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Science: Poisonous peanuts linked to liver cancer
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Science: Molecular vase springs a better trap
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Science: Smooth flows the spreading seafloor
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Science: A curious tale of inflatable stars
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Science: Lightning clues to the world's temperature
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Science: Global warming cuts no ice
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Rabbit virus to be let loose?
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Big science under the microscope
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Are bats divided by more than a squeak?
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No ban on human genes in food
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'Come clean on acid rain'
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All is not well in the wok
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Industry to pay for data dream
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Your money or your satellite . . .
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First sight of 'invisible' matter
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Pesticides linked to breast cancer
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Opinion
Features
Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
Features
How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport's most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf's growing popularity
Features
Computer chaos at medicine's cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
Features
Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
Features
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Thistle Diary: Effluents, affluence and aliens - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Give us a break, Sir Ron - John Holman suggests ways of improving the science National Curriculum
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Forum: Fashion and fitness - Jeremy Burgess muses on the survival of some Darwinian meanings
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Review: Biology sticks to the basic text
Books & Arts
Review: Chemistry and the construction of life - A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ offers help by reviewing books on chemistry, biology, computing and physics
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