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Resilient reactors: Nuclear built to last centuries

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Resilient reactors: Nuclear built to last centuries

Can we build a new breed of nuclear power plants that run for hundreds of years rather than a couple of decades, asks Fred Pearce

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Exploring the ancestry of your desktop PC

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The man behind the hockey stick graph

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Protection efforts may not save endangered animals

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Break bad habits by forming good new ones

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Forget fittest, it's survival of the most cultured

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Natural gas – a fuel too far?

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Natural gas – a fuel too far?

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New male spells death for unborn monkeys

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New male spells death for unborn monkeys

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Was early ungulate first mammal to echolocate?

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Was early ungulate first mammal to echolocate?

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How Nazi laws stymied German nuclear dreams

In The Quantum Exodus, Gordon Fraser explores whether Nazi Germany could have had the H-bomb if it had not expelled Jewish scientists

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Do we really need cash any more?

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The secrets of solving mathematical puzzles

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The never-ending search for fresh ideas

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Climate change may stir geological mayhem

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