Beastly images of childhood: Biology teachers are supposed to promote a respect for all forms of life. But to be effective they need to know what their charges think of animals in the first place
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The death throes of a red giant: Astronomers have known for years that old stars swell up to become red giants. Now they are beginning to understand how these stars cook up many important elements, such as carbon
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A random walk in arithmetic: God not only plays dice in physics but also in pure mathematics. Mathematical truth is sometimes nothing more than a perfect coin toss
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The guiding principles of nuclear war: If nuclear weapons exist only as a deterrent to threaten huge urban areas, then why have the armed forces spent so much time and money making their missiles deadly accurate?
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Life
Enzymes a la carte
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Earth
Alaska's silent spring: One year after the Exxon Valdez
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Technology: Fast-talking data link
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Technology: Predicting the unpredictable in Australia's tropics
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Technology: Measure very carefully, we will fly past only once
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Technology: Neural networks ditch digital ways
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Technology: Condom boom brings new life to rubber substitute (
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Technology: Electric filter flushes out the flues
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Science: Old stars put their weight behind the big bang theory
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Technology: Radar network watches where the wind blows
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Science: Friendlier CFC offers temporary ozone relief
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Science: New material makes light double its frequency
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Science: Water could finally reveal its complex structure
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Japan may help US to 'explore' Mars and the Moon
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Demand boosts prospects for chemical engineers
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Tokyo commercial TV station beats national space agency by six months in putting Japan's first citizen into space
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Trouble in orbit
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Prize increase
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Mengele's bones?
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In 1992, will Nina sail the cosmos blue?
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Nuclear strike
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SSC seeks aid
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Insulin complaint
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Carbon cuts
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French foot first
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Science: Plant fungus keeps its host in good health
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Science: Ants ride 'shotgun' on their companions
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AIDS director's resignation deepens crisis at WHO
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Winds of change thinned the arctic ice
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Americans puzzle over new form of hepatitis
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Spreading toads divide Australia's biologists
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Britain risks row over sulphur emissions . . .
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. . . while Thatcher says 'don't jump to conclusions'
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. . . and money runs out for acid rain research
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Dissent gathers around India's forestry minister
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British MPs stay cool about rejoining UNESCO
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Montreal nations agree tougher rules on CFCs
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Czech greens press for stronger control
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Opinion
Features
Beastly images of childhood: Biology teachers are supposed to promote a respect for all forms of life. But to be effective they need to know what their charges think of animals in the first place
Features
The death throes of a red giant: Astronomers have known for years that old stars swell up to become red giants. Now they are beginning to understand how these stars cook up many important elements, such as carbon
Features
A random walk in arithmetic: God not only plays dice in physics but also in pure mathematics. Mathematical truth is sometimes nothing more than a perfect coin toss
Features
The guiding principles of nuclear war: If nuclear weapons exist only as a deterrent to threaten huge urban areas, then why have the armed forces spent so much time and money making their missiles deadly accurate?
Features
Life
Enzymes a la carte
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Out of sight, out of mind / Review of Rock Solid: the Geology of Nuclear Waste Disposal' by Elspeth Reid
Books & Arts
Forum: The great chain of being - 51¶¯Âþs should be a little more modest in their claims
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In search of the fundamentals of Islamic science / Review of 'Explorations in Islamic Science' by Ziauddin Sardar
Books & Arts
The future in a box / Review of 'Science Fiction', a Yorkshire Television series
Books & Arts
Painters that bloom in the spring / Review of 'The Art of Botanical Illustration - From 1550 to 1990' by Lys de Bray
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Rays of hope and fearful portents / Review of 'State of the World 1990' by Lester Brown et al
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