First aid for the Amazon: The world's richest nations want to save the rainforests. This time they are putting their money on research and modernisation
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A brief history of Stephen Hawking
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Hospital waste: a case for treatment - Dirty old incinerators are the dumping grounds for most clinical waste. Tougher laws are putting pressure on Britain's hospital managers to clean up their act
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Icy moons of the Solar System: Our planet's dynamic surface owes its mobility to heat in its depths. The same processes operate, but for different reasons, on the icy moons that circle the outer planets
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Who is the greenest of them all?
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Buried in the manifestoes: The future of British science is low down among the parties' promises for the election. Is there anything to choose between them?
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Patents: Current fraud cure
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Patents: Solicitor settles out of court
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Technology
Technology: White noise silences Japanese cars
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Technology
Technology: Crews try fresh tack with laser guns
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Technology
Technology: Minibars help to keep vaccines cool
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Science: Muscular dystrophy could soon succumb to gene therapy
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Science: Distant galaxy upsets magnetic theory
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Technology
Technology: Improve your wash with a load of balls
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Technology
Technology: State of the arc for waste disposal
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Technology
Technology: Britain backs coconut composts
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Technology
Technology: The mother of all pearls
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Science: The lost continents of early Earth
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Physics
Science: Time travel without the paradoxes
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Science: How to make a bucky polymer
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Green timber merchant turns on ecologists
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Down ozone way
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Blood money
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School kit that measures huff and puff
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Sacking was legal
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Bonn accord
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Dirty Britain
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Shut and open
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'Efficiency' may break up DNA fingerprinting team
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Russia plays down nuclear accident
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Abortion pill confuses debate on Germany's twin laws
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Brazil's green man goes
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Europe's one small step to save the planet
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Chemicals industry threatens to go West
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Do long noses save dogs from passive smoking?
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Flood plans fail to protect Bangladeshis
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Pentagon homes in on Patriot critic
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US sceptical over germ warfare controls
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'Unscientific' hunters set off to kill more seals
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Lethal TB strains catch drugs companies on the hop
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Latin America calls for cash to combat cholera
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Unhappy birthday for Star Wars
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Opinion
Features
First aid for the Amazon: The world's richest nations want to save the rainforests. This time they are putting their money on research and modernisation
Features
Space
A brief history of Stephen Hawking
Features
Hospital waste: a case for treatment - Dirty old incinerators are the dumping grounds for most clinical waste. Tougher laws are putting pressure on Britain's hospital managers to clean up their act
Features
Icy moons of the Solar System: Our planet's dynamic surface owes its mobility to heat in its depths. The same processes operate, but for different reasons, on the icy moons that circle the outer planets
Features
Who is the greenest of them all?
Features
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Thistle Diary: Science budget and forest medicines - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: A rare contamination - John Hewish thinks we should beware a mould misplaced
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Review: In search of the mind's I
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Forum: Getting younger by the day - Donald Gould fears that what can be done will be done
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Forum: A migration of brain versus brawn - Vera Rich muses on who gains from the wandering Eastern scientist
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