Desert fires cast a shadow over Asia: If Iraq blows up Kuwait's oilfields they could blaze for a year or more. The resulting smoke could change the climate of the Middle East and stop India's summer monsoon
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Life
A matter of life and patents
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A quantum leap to smaller chips: Semiconducting materials such as gallium arsenide are allowing physicists to create tiny devices tailored to work at the quantum level
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How to find oil without really trying: Everyone has heard of North Sea oil, but petroleum lurks, seeps and bubbles up in some of the most unexpected places throughout Britain
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Historical clues to conservation: Management techniques that reproduce old farming practices may yet save one of the last remaining heathlands in Britain
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Epstein honoured
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Cavendish closures
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AIDS ruling
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Unhealthy relations
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France taxes waste
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Technology
Technology: Academic engineers race to solar victory against Japan
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Science: Will wayward asteroid become a moon of Jupiter?
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Technology: Opening shots fired in digital tape war
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Technology
Technology: Shot in the arm for contraception
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Technology
Technology: 'Seismic animals' cast a net round San Francisco
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Technology
Technology: All wired up for the electronic home
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Science: Is dyslexia a general learning deficiency?
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Science: Too many insects, and not enough entomologists
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Science: World's rice crop vulnerable to changing atmosphere
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Research councils 'to blame' for lack of funds
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Czechs attacked over 'unsafe' reactor
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Trees trigger heavy-metal 'time bomb'
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French go for gas
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BT phone numbers change and change again
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Once in a green moon
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Legal straitjacket could drive psychiatry underground
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Rare horses ready for return to Mongolian home
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Canada to test Kenya's disputed HIV drug
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Astonomer Royal pledges support for basic science
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Gulf troops may be guinea pigs for untested drugs
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Judges may free India to renew battle over Bhopal
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Drugs denied to Germany's new citizens
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NASA reveals plans to cure Hubble's poor eyesight
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Americans compete for control over sex
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Opinion
Features
Desert fires cast a shadow over Asia: If Iraq blows up Kuwait's oilfields they could blaze for a year or more. The resulting smoke could change the climate of the Middle East and stop India's summer monsoon
Features
Life
A matter of life and patents
Features
A quantum leap to smaller chips: Semiconducting materials such as gallium arsenide are allowing physicists to create tiny devices tailored to work at the quantum level
Features
How to find oil without really trying: Everyone has heard of North Sea oil, but petroleum lurks, seeps and bubbles up in some of the most unexpected places throughout Britain
Features
Historical clues to conservation: Management techniques that reproduce old farming practices may yet save one of the last remaining heathlands in Britain
Features
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Review: Green shades in the waiting room
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Review: Slaves to the discovery
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Review: Ladybirds, horse chestnuts and kittens
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Review: Time flies like an arrow
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Review: The most foul of deadly plagues
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Talking Point: Safety - The perils of self-regulation
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