Do people make deserts?: The drylands of the Earth have bloomed under humid climates in the past. Perhaps the desert dwellers have lessons for us about utilising drylands and adapting to a hostile climate
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The junkyard in the sky: Space is full of rubbish. From tiny flecks of paint to the broken remains of old satellites and rockets, the debris orbiting the Earth could mean the end of spaceflight within decades
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New directions for science on TV: Three out of Britain's five regular television programmes about science have new editors. Their programmes are watched by about 15 million people. What are their views on TV's contribution to the public understanding of
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New life for old forest: As loggers and environmentalists battle over North America's ancient forests, a new philosophy is emerging. Canadian scientists are rewriting the ecological rules, with far-reaching consequences for the forestry of the future
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Getting around by common design: You can't pedal a deck chair, but its design is based on the tried and tested shape of the bicycle. Or so says the curator of London's latest transport museum
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Technology
Technology: Electric elephant fish are shocked by pollution
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Technology
Technology: American chip makers set for patents battles
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Technology
Technology: Charter ship highlights research squeeze
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Iraq not spotted
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Forest power
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Environment laws
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Science: A new field of carbon chemistry is born
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Science: Researchers sound out polymer production
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Science: Nerve fibres could bridge gaps in broken spines
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Science: Hubble homes in on distant stars
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Science: Airborne probe divines water under the desert
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Science: Solar particles break speed record
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Science: Magellan alters our images of Venus
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Science: Why is it difficult to put names to faces?
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Drug companies wary of European reforms
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Japanese justice fails mercury victims
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University research services are 'too cheap'
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Vitamin A saves lives
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High-flying weather project studies the Pyrenees
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Death of a physicist
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Rhino arrests
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Bombs return
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Plants reveal their genes in 3-D
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Ulysses heads for the Sun
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Bog people reveal their true colours
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Making a match of patient and donor
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Hard graft wins Nobel for working doctors
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AIDS in Africa: HIV may claim fewer babies
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Bad neighbours taken to task over Polish pollution
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AIDS researcher cleared
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Counting the cost of the Cold War cleanup
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Consumer groups claim free trade compromises food safety
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Opinion
Features
Do people make deserts?: The drylands of the Earth have bloomed under humid climates in the past. Perhaps the desert dwellers have lessons for us about utilising drylands and adapting to a hostile climate
Features
The junkyard in the sky: Space is full of rubbish. From tiny flecks of paint to the broken remains of old satellites and rockets, the debris orbiting the Earth could mean the end of spaceflight within decades
Features
New directions for science on TV: Three out of Britain's five regular television programmes about science have new editors. Their programmes are watched by about 15 million people. What are their views on TV's contribution to the public understanding of
Features
New life for old forest: As loggers and environmentalists battle over North America's ancient forests, a new philosophy is emerging. Canadian scientists are rewriting the ecological rules, with far-reaching consequences for the forestry of the future
Features
Getting around by common design: You can't pedal a deck chair, but its design is based on the tried and tested shape of the bicycle. Or so says the curator of London's latest transport museum
Features
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Review: Mudslides, hurricanes and Canute
Books & Arts
Arts: The globe, life, the Universe and almost everything
Books & Arts
Review: In science's hall of fame
Books & Arts
Review: The public understanding of technology
Books & Arts
Review: Correction
Regulars
Books / 'Visions of Space: Artists Journey Through the Cosmos'
Books & Arts
Forum: Sad story of Shetland's seabirds / A challenge to the government to face up to the seabird disaster
Forum
Review: Science and the Booker Prize
Books & Arts
Review: Botanists in a fast-moving world
Books & Arts
