A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved instead into an anti-apartheid campaigner and leading light in the study of the beginnings of the human species
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Light gets a quantum squeeze: Physicists have cheated the laws of quantum mechanics to create exceptionally pure light. Now they are using it to test the fundamentals of nature, and spies have a tool for eavesdropping
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Prospectors for tropical medicines: Tiny Costa Rica is taking control of its explores its forests for future medicines in world's largest drugs company
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Painting the sky red: The glowing colours of a sunset are a continuing source of wonder - but how natural are they? At the end of the day, atmospheric pollution shows its true colours
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The killing minefields of Cambodia
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South America declares war on Chagas disease: Health ministers from seven South American countries are about to agree plans for one of the biggest campaigns ever mounted against an insect-borne disease
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Technology
Technology: Breakers decapitate disused reactor vessel
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Technology: Belt tunes in to fetal heartbeat
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Technology: Satellites strike back against solar flares - The 42nd Congress of the International Astonautical Federation
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Technology: Navigating the Northeast Passage - The 42nd Congress of the International Astonautical Federation
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Technology: HOTOL hitches a lift from the Soviets - The 42nd Congress of the International Astonautical Federation
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Technology: No escape from the global telephone
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Technology: Radioactive antibody highlights bowel cancers
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Technology: Canny camshaft saves on fuel
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Technology: Hologram conjures up a crystal's structure
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Evil exports
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Tiresome topic
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Technology: Making drugs the milky way
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Science: Rabbit virus could carry contraceptive
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Science: Burst of pollen triggers asthma attacks
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Science: Polymer emerges from watery beginnings
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Science: Ultrasound catalyst could help turn coal into petrol
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Science: DNA evidence strengthens Eve hypothesis
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Science: Molecular clip gets a grip on enzyme action
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World Bank's conservation record under fire
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Voracious supercollider kills off fusion project
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Ozone hole hunters look north
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Yes to AIDS drug
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Dounreay deal
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There's gold in them there frills
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Blue boxes
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All change
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Will Europe's spaceplane leave the drawing board?
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AIDS trial goes on
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Dug-out dugouts in Paris
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Gene hunters close in on cause of deafness
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Road to Rio strewn with cant
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Financier slams modern agriculture
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Russia takes the lion's share of Soviet science
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Grand unified strategy for particle physics?
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France must be seen to be green, say MPs
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Europe rethinks patent on the Harvard mouse
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Rainforest wrecked for satellite launches
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Enter the kangaroo cowboy
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Opinion
Features
A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved instead into an anti-apartheid campaigner and leading light in the study of the beginnings of the human species
Features
Light gets a quantum squeeze: Physicists have cheated the laws of quantum mechanics to create exceptionally pure light. Now they are using it to test the fundamentals of nature, and spies have a tool for eavesdropping
Features
Prospectors for tropical medicines: Tiny Costa Rica is taking control of its explores its forests for future medicines in world's largest drugs company
Features
Painting the sky red: The glowing colours of a sunset are a continuing source of wonder - but how natural are they? At the end of the day, atmospheric pollution shows its true colours
Features
The killing minefields of Cambodia
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Degradable plastics
Inside Science
Review: 'The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World' by Guido Mano
Books & Arts
Forum: Ask a Mars question, get a Mars answer - Wendy Grossman has been to a meeting of European skeptics
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Forum: Danger? What danger? - Jeremy Burgess has a revelation on a mountain top
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Forum: Onward Christian boxers - Donald Gould doubts that boxing creates good citizens
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Thistle Diary: The price of special scientific interest - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: May the muse be with you - Verse shouldn't be a vice in academic papers, says Elisabeth Geake
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Review: Moewus, his method and myth
Books & Arts
Review: The world's webs of information
Books & Arts
Review: Peter Atkins' Molecules
Books & Arts
Review: Catch a lion by the tail
Books & Arts
Review: A case of good timing
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Review: Only time separates a garden from a nature reserve
Books & Arts
Talking Point: No research please, we're British
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