Computer maps guide the surgeon: Doctors are using three-dimensional images produced by computers to help them to perform difficult and delicate operations on the skull
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Life
Sexual politics in the cell
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Frustration on the factory farm: Animals kept in close confinement pace their cages or bite their bars because of frustration, not boredom. Changes in housing can reduce the problem
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Euler and the Konigsberg bridges problem
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Cracking the secret of eggshells
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Making molecules by numbers: Assigning numbers to molecular structures allows us to predict the behaviour of a wide array of chemical substances. It also offers a new approach to the design of plastics, drugs and even tastier beer
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Intercepting the messengers of cosmic violence: Shuttle repairs permitting, NASA's second great space observatory will be launched soon. It will search the Universe for gamma rays - generated by the most violent events in the cosmos
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Patents: Wind-up bus
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Patents: Sniffer enzymes
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Technology
Technology: Inside-out motor gives Australia's sheep a cool shave
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Technology: Sea water takes the sting out of acid rain . . .
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Technology: Sea water takes the sting out of acid rain . . . as self-cleaning coal scrubs the sulphur
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Technology: Wrist pump delivers drugs on time
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Technology: Channel 5 TV will interfere with millions of video recorders
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Technology: Satellite images come down to Earth
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Science: Microbial mergers and the single-celled organism
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Science: Murderous mink wipe out water voles
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Science: Quark hunters on the trail of the densest material in the Universe
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Science: Variable gravity could solve cosmological problems
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Science: Asteroid impact emptied Gulf of Mexico . but Soviet crater complicates the picture
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Science: How a photon can be in two places at once
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Science: Asteroid impact emptied Gulf of Mexico . . .
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Forgotten phones
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Spillage spending
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Beaches and benzene also linked with childhood leukaemia
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Confusion over official policy on sweeteners
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Foreign investors back gene-snippers
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Underground current electrifies Australia
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BSE breakthrough
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R&D goes down
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Equal risks
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Private ward for wounded tree
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Celltech pulls out
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Dounreay deal?
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Kuwait opts for science and self-help
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Berlin's Spreewald: a well protected site
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Last act of American science 'soap opera'
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Moscow throws out nuclear reactors
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Functional foods for the age of health fads
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Science 'stripped to the bone' say Lords
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AIDS drug in American patent battle
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Loophole in code to restrict multiple births
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Drug 'speeds the spread' of HIV
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Opinion
Features
Computer maps guide the surgeon: Doctors are using three-dimensional images produced by computers to help them to perform difficult and delicate operations on the skull
Features
Life
Sexual politics in the cell
Features
Frustration on the factory farm: Animals kept in close confinement pace their cages or bite their bars because of frustration, not boredom. Changes in housing can reduce the problem
Features
Euler and the Konigsberg bridges problem
Features
Cracking the secret of eggshells
Features
Making molecules by numbers: Assigning numbers to molecular structures allows us to predict the behaviour of a wide array of chemical substances. It also offers a new approach to the design of plastics, drugs and even tastier beer
Features
Intercepting the messengers of cosmic violence: Shuttle repairs permitting, NASA's second great space observatory will be launched soon. It will search the Universe for gamma rays - generated by the most violent events in the cosmos
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Thistle Diary: Arranging the future of taxonomy - Comment from Westminster
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Forum: Who needs mathematics? - Arturo Sangalli searches for a meaning to mathematical life
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Forum: How to succeed without really conforming - Gail Vines examines the inside story of a successful outsider
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Forum: Out in Africa, looking for a guide - Martyn Kelly thinks that Africa needs its own botanists
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Review / Third International Science Festival
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Review: On the relation of everything
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Review: A gift for a China scholar
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Review: Starvation and plenty
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Review: Eat your way to health or death
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Talking Point: Unacceptable threats to Antarctic science
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