Rock around the block: Geology can offer what money cannot buy: true street credibility. Yes, the streets of London may not be paved with gold, but with a little knowledge you can still walk all over history
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Editor's picks
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The white coat of courage
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Albert joins the fold: Paper folding began as a simple art form in ancient Japan. Modern folders have raised it to a level of technical artistry that knows no bounds. And just to prove it, for Christmas, you can liberate Albert, David Austin's recalcitra
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Root and branch in the groves of academe: 51¶¯Âþs from Newton on have adopted the tree as a symbol. From stately, spreading giant to the tiniest twig and leaf, trees and their various parts have become the commonest images in all branches of science
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Ships that scaled the seven seas: Airfix kits may evoke memories of glue and brown plastic. Yet the company's designers showed great nautical ingenuity in recreating the sailing ships of the past
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A Christmas ghost in the machine: Bugs in the computer system may be the remnants of redundancies past
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The meteorite only knocks once: If you're lucky, a meteorite will land near you. If you're unlucky, it will land on you. Some people go to the ends of the Earth to find one . the rest of us can simply buy a mail-order lump
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Letter: I'm glad you brought that up . . . - 51¶¯Âþ's agony aunt, Constance Pugh, answers letters from her heaving postbag
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Boondoggles we knew and loved: How many great ideas have you had today? Just thank your lucky stars that no one took them seriously. Others have not been so fortunate and have had to live with the consequences
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Pharmaceutical magic from the Magi: Ancient remedies based on frankincense and myrrh have something to offer modern medicine
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James Moriarty - a forgotten mathematician: We remember Sherlock Holmes's greatest adversary for his involvement in serious crimes, but he was also a mathematician of exceptional gifts
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Art of darkness: Braving explosions, underground rivers and rock falls, photographers have been taking pictures of the underground world for nearly 130 years - from the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky to coal mines in England
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A calendar for all seasons: Two hundred years ago, the scientists of the French Revolution devised a calendar based on reason rather than tradition. Despite their best efforts, it lasted for only 17 years
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Technology
Technology: The smooth tones of the redesigned bassoon
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Technology: Pedal power lifts helicopter into history . . .
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Technology: ... as human-powered hydrofoils walk on water
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Science: Sharp increase in atmospheric oxygen indicates ancient cell activity
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Science: Viral protein knocks the guts out of caterpillars
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Science: 51¶¯Âþs fail to find dioxin in mummies
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Science: All-carbon molecule looms in sight
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Science: Optical beaming may explain zoo of active galaxies
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Technology: Shadows illuminate polar puzzle
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Science: Genetic jabs for whooping cough
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Correction: EC funding
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Politicians told how to listen to scientists
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Bulgaria in 'secret trials' of AIDS drug
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Money piles up for Bangladesh's flood protection plan
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Botanic gardens unite for diversity
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European Space Agency seeks new director-general
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Tunnel ruling
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Cambridge green?
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Australian ecologist goes home
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Challenge in US to law on HIV
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Sugar labelling urged
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Kyshtym 'almost as bad as Chernobyl'
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4.2 billion pound budget approved for European projects
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Licence row hangs over Soviet waste
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Embryo Bill could allow children to trace biological fathers
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Rail link up the junction
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Particle physics at bay
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British power stations find it hard to come clean
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Opinion
Features
Rock around the block: Geology can offer what money cannot buy: true street credibility. Yes, the streets of London may not be paved with gold, but with a little knowledge you can still walk all over history
Features
Technology
The white coat of courage
Features
Albert joins the fold: Paper folding began as a simple art form in ancient Japan. Modern folders have raised it to a level of technical artistry that knows no bounds. And just to prove it, for Christmas, you can liberate Albert, David Austin's recalcitra
Features
Root and branch in the groves of academe: 51¶¯Âþs from Newton on have adopted the tree as a symbol. From stately, spreading giant to the tiniest twig and leaf, trees and their various parts have become the commonest images in all branches of science
Features
Ships that scaled the seven seas: Airfix kits may evoke memories of glue and brown plastic. Yet the company's designers showed great nautical ingenuity in recreating the sailing ships of the past
Features
A Christmas ghost in the machine: Bugs in the computer system may be the remnants of redundancies past
Features
The meteorite only knocks once: If you're lucky, a meteorite will land near you. If you're unlucky, it will land on you. Some people go to the ends of the Earth to find one . the rest of us can simply buy a mail-order lump
Features
Letter: I'm glad you brought that up . . . - 51¶¯Âþ's agony aunt, Constance Pugh, answers letters from her heaving postbag
Features
Boondoggles we knew and loved: How many great ideas have you had today? Just thank your lucky stars that no one took them seriously. Others have not been so fortunate and have had to live with the consequences
Features
Pharmaceutical magic from the Magi: Ancient remedies based on frankincense and myrrh have something to offer modern medicine
Features
James Moriarty - a forgotten mathematician: We remember Sherlock Holmes's greatest adversary for his involvement in serious crimes, but he was also a mathematician of exceptional gifts
Features
Art of darkness: Braving explosions, underground rivers and rock falls, photographers have been taking pictures of the underground world for nearly 130 years - from the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky to coal mines in England
Features
A calendar for all seasons: Two hundred years ago, the scientists of the French Revolution devised a calendar based on reason rather than tradition. Despite their best efforts, it lasted for only 17 years
Features
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Forum: Know your onions? - A pickle about preservation
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Forum: Hold onto your hat! - Eerodynamics of the bowler
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Of safeguards, ethics and Falklands fires
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Forum: Riding on a donkey? - Some people have all the luck
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Forum: Out of the icebox, into the fire - The refrigerator that found its way into a reactor
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Forum: Going through the motions - Problems making a special delivery
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Forum: So much for labour saving - Household gadgets
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In search of Schrodinger's reindeer
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Rooms with a purpose in view / Review of 'The Exploratory'
Books & Arts
An element of unpredictability / Review of 'Chemistry of Tin' edited by Phillip G. Harrison
Books & Arts
Live longer, suffer more / Review of 'Sickness, Recovery and Death, a History and Forecast of Ill Health' by James C. Riley
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An account of the heavens / Review of 'Cosmic Perspectives' edited by S. K. Biswas, D. C. V. Mallik and C. V. Vishveshwara
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An enhanced calendered-cellulose probe / Review of 'Tech Speak or How to Talk High Tech' by Edward Tenner
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In pursuit of Sophia / Review of 'Science and Philosophy' by Derek Gjertsen and 'Physics and Philisophy' by Werner Heisenberg
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Patterns of decay and dissolution / Review of 'Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Palaeobiological Implications' by Johannes Weigelt
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