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Magicology: Casting a spell on the mind
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The return of Elektro, the first celebrity robot
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How kangaroo burgers could save the planet
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How to knit a brain
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Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect
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Chocolate in peril
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How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage
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DNA dating: Can genes help you pick a mate?
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Bye-bye boojums: Scientific names lose their sparkle
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Physics
The scientific guide to gift wrapping
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End of year quiz
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What killed Dr Granville's mummy?
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Table of contents
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Space
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: The year NASA's star began to wane
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Space
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Asia's space race takes off
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Earth
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Reality returns to the White House
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Earth
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 08: China quakes, but the dams don't break
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Technology
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Large Hadron Collider makes physics sexy
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Oil shock hits the world
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Hunger bites as food crisis deepens
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Life
Ecstasy over G spot therapy
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Human genes become commodities
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: How 'rocket science' failed the banks
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Is the Exxon Valdez oil spill finally cleaned up?
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Earth
Nobel laureate to be next US energy secretary
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Switch to biofuels boosts insect pest
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Earth
Blight hits world's vanilla supply
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Health
Struggle over bird flu samples drags on
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Life
Judges junk bogus neuroscience
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Technology
Malaria bed nets' usefulness is their downfall
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Earliest spider web and more
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World leaders 'failing to get' climate message
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Physics
Calls to scrap the 'leap second' grow
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'It appears that she does it for her own satisfaction'
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Space
Burrowing black holes devoured first stars from within
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Mind
Monthly shot to stop alcoholics' holiday relapse
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Earth
Great fireworks, shame about the toxic fallout
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Mind-reading software reveals brain images
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Technology
Satnav device gets the shopping done fast
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Technology
Transparent memory makes for see-through phones
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Technology
Software plays pop mogul
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Technology
Gizmo: Nanny cars
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Space
Flaw may have sent Beagle 2 to a fiery doom
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Earth
Snowflake maker to improve weather forecasts
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Earth
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: The year in science
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Humans
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: Gay people may be born that way
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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ review 2008: The best and worst of the year
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Opinion
Features
Technology
Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect
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Earth
Chocolate in peril
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Mind
How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage
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Life
DNA dating: Can genes help you pick a mate?
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Space
Bye-bye boojums: Scientific names lose their sparkle
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Physics
The scientific guide to gift wrapping
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End of year quiz
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Humans
What killed Dr Granville's mummy?
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