The hidden cost of Canada's cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world's largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?
Features
This week's magazine
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Editor's picks
South Africa's other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region's prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs
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Life
How the wild beasts were tamed
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Splitting images: sex and science - Sexual stereotypes are hard to change. It may be because the notion of polarity has bitten deep into our culture
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Beating the uncertainty principle: Experiments with interfering atoms designed to test wave-particle duality are helping physicists to understand the bizarre side of quantum theory
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A premier league for university research?: Changes in the way the government allocates money to universities will benefit a chosen few but could put a stop to research in many departments
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Technology
Technology: Chip revolution no flash in the pan
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Technology
Technology: The news on the radio gets itself out of a tangle
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Science: Starlight and the seven dwarfs
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Science: African Eve theory takes a step back
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Science: Salmon brains offer clues to nerve growth
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Science: Molecular memory
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Science: Overactive T cells may cause asthma
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Science: What happens when sheets of carbon curl up in a saddle
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Science: Is Universe's 'missing mass' in faint galaxies?
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Science: Brownian motion sparks renewed debate
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US argues over nuclear weapons research
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The riddle of the Sphinx revisited: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Diagnosis by computer: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Skull reconstructions speak for Neanderthals: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Patriot missiles misled by 'accidental' decoys: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Runaway greenhouse warming 'cannot be rule out': The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Blood on stone opens doors to human origins: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Third World countries should control their genetic resources
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Iceland goes it alone on whaling
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Awesome secret of the Indiana banana: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
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Nuclear stores planned
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Industrial giants poised to quit the Netherlands
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European funds 'demolish' the environment
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US environmentalists oppose world trade deal
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Satellites help Australia count its dung
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Britain blazes an alternative trail for gene therapy
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Aid for DNA research
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Industry 'does not need research'
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Opinion
Features
The hidden cost of Canada's cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world's largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?
Features
South Africa's other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region's prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs
Features
Life
How the wild beasts were tamed
Features
Splitting images: sex and science - Sexual stereotypes are hard to change. It may be because the notion of polarity has bitten deep into our culture
Features
Beating the uncertainty principle: Experiments with interfering atoms designed to test wave-particle duality are helping physicists to understand the bizarre side of quantum theory
Features
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Review: A biker's approach to boffinry
Books & Arts
Review: To be shown
Books & Arts
Review: Picks of the Paperbacks
Books & Arts
Forum: Hands on the tiller of democracy! - Igor Aleksander looks askance at the forthcoming election
Forum
Forum: The habits of woodlice - Derek Ager stalks the soul of some creepy-crawlies
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Thistle Diary: Time to rejoin UNESCO? - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Musical squares - Tony Jones hits the road to see how science is sold
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