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Environment

Embracing shale gas may help cut emissions

It's anathema to greens, but in his new book The Carbon Crunch economist Dieter Helm argues that shale gas may be what we need to get rid of coal

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Climate downgrade: Human emissions

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Climate downgrade: Human emissions

Features

The engineer who defeated the wind

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Extinct birds come alive in a cartoonist's imagination

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Who benefits from big biology projects?

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American dream of oil independence on horizon

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American dream of oil independence on horizon

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India's thorium-based nuclear dream inches closer

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India's thorium-based nuclear dream inches closer

Analysis

What smells with its feet and pees with its head?

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The true story of alchemy

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Humans

Will we ever understand how our brains work?

Several projects are trying to reverse-engineer the brain. In How to Create a Mind, futurist Ray Kurzweil champions their cause

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Orang-utans infected by mystery Ebola-like virus

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Technology

Will software revamp guard grid against cyberattack?

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Parcelling up nature in One Cubic Foot

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Physics

Exploding the myths about the Higgs

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