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oil and gas

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Environment

Why we need to leave wiggle room for the planet

In The Human Quest scientist Johan Rockstrom and photographer Mattias Klum make a compelling case for why we need to stay within environmental boundaries

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Vaccine protects monkeys from lethal 'Contagion' virus

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Vaccine protects monkeys from lethal 'Contagion' virus

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Stephen Hawking: man, icon and myth

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Cyborg makes art using seventh sense

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Software reveals the most influential Victorian novelists

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Software reveals the most influential Victorian novelists

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The strange world of sleep

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Space fuel crisis: NASA confronts the plutonium pinch

Space

Space fuel crisis: NASA confronts the plutonium pinch

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Iran Space Agency to launch a monkey into space

Space

Iran Space Agency to launch a monkey into space

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How to measure consciousness

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Japan could become second biggest solar power nation

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Japan could become second biggest solar power nation

A mega solar park planned just 10 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant trumpets new Japanese investment in solar power

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Did black holes shape the evolution of the universe?

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Surveying North America's Arctic shores

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Health

Light-activated brain cells boost monkey skills

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The simple cells that came before everything

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