The race to detect dark matter: Dark matter makes up most of the Universe, but no one knows what it is. Now physicists around the world are competing to detect new exotic particles that could explain all
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Do animals feel pain?: By drawing analogies between humans and other animals, researchers tentatively conclude that fish and octopuses can feel pain, but insects can't. But the cutoff point is inevitably fuzzy
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Telltale signs of a stressful life: Experiments have often deliberately caused stress to animals. The findings should now be used to improve their lot
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Computing the cost of health care: Britain's NHS is spending more than ever before on information technology to improve auditing and record keeping. But is it getting the best value for its money?
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The power behind the flower: What makes a plant flower? The event that poets down the ages have struggled to capture in words, molecular biologists are now seeking to define in the language of genes
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Patents: Chaff in the wind
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Patents: Making deals on digital phones
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Patents: Curved walls
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Patents: Fruity welder
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Patents: Video double taped
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Patents: Patents Information
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Science: The right time for a women to diet?
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Science: Galactic neighbour may harbour a black hole
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Science: Does the Universe go on for ever?
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Science: Cancer compound found in cuttlefish
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Technology
Technology: Lean batteries take the weight off electronics
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Technology
Technology: Sculpted fibre gathers up laser's lost light
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Technology
Technology: Interference as usual after Brussels bungle
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Science: The parasite that exploits the immune system
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Science: A second chance for the large copper?
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Science: The bird is gone, but the song lives on
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Costly CDs
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Safe waste
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Focus: Baltic states struggle for total power - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have won their political independence from Moscow and are racing towards the free market. But energy to drive their economies still comes from Mother Russia
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Ice abandoned
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Computer net
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American feminists fight for abortion pill
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Indians protest
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Rock bottom
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Bees in danger
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Europe goes bump in the night
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Kuwait's trial by fire observed from space
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Canada, land of dying lakes and forests
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Belated inquest on cold fusion blast
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Political fallout traps cash for Chernobyl
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Channel 5 should wait for digital technology
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Seaweed subsidy menaces Europe's marine life
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Aye-aye, it's a boy . . .
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Genome project leader to stay in Britain
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Beleaguered science wins Cabinet status
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Wrong bolts sent pilot into the blue
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Japanese pioneers raise kid in rubber womb
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Pundits pontificate while Etna erupts
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Nuclear waste may rise from the grave
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Opinion
Features
The race to detect dark matter: Dark matter makes up most of the Universe, but no one knows what it is. Now physicists around the world are competing to detect new exotic particles that could explain all
Features
Do animals feel pain?: By drawing analogies between humans and other animals, researchers tentatively conclude that fish and octopuses can feel pain, but insects can't. But the cutoff point is inevitably fuzzy
Features
Telltale signs of a stressful life: Experiments have often deliberately caused stress to animals. The findings should now be used to improve their lot
Features
Computing the cost of health care: Britain's NHS is spending more than ever before on information technology to improve auditing and record keeping. But is it getting the best value for its money?
Features
The power behind the flower: What makes a plant flower? The event that poets down the ages have struggled to capture in words, molecular biologists are now seeking to define in the language of genes
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Thistle Diary: Patents and computer software - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Physics professors and Polo mints - Tobias Chapman finds that communication skills are learnt in many ways
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Review: A journey to Earth's companion
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Forum: Though many are called, few are chosen - Donald Gould feels that the British medical hierarchy should be referred for treatment
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Review: What values in the new biology?
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