Inventor with a diamond edge: For Ernest Nagy, inventions are there to be used. His simple technique for making thin films of diamond has astounded scientists, while his openness about it has shocked industrialists
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Mirage of the shifting sands: The UN is planning another counterattack against advancing deserts. But will it work? And is more land really becoming arid?
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When a reactor blows: A nuclear reactor not far from the south coast of France will undergo a core meltdown six times over the next six years. It will be no accident, but part of a unique experiment
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Technology
Technology: Lasers boost optical signals across the Caribbean
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Technology: Swirling cylinders spin power beneath the waves
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Science: Answer to crater mystery could be blowing in the wind
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Science: Chemical family born in a flash
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Science: Drunkard's walk helps unfold secret of polymers
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Technology: Robot Dante's voyage to hell and back
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Technology: Parachuting without tears
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Technology: Britain urged to coordinate reality research
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Science: Asteroid belt is shadow of its former self
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Science: Pacific islanders were world's first farmers
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Science: Protein warns of colon cancer relapse
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Rights to health
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Focus: Deep rumblings from Little Rock - With a month to go before he moves into the White House, Bill Clinton looks set to make sweeping changes to American policy on technology, science and the environment
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Lagging behind
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Helping hand
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Pandolfi to go
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Salty taste from icy roads
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Cockles and conservation in East Anglia
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Doomsday averted
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Greener bank
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AIDS inquiry
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Flea with a mysterious frill
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Will Europe warm to high-definition TV?
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Drug watchdogs aim for transatlantic pact
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Britain dithers over gene therapy
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US alters cold virus to treat cystic fibrosis
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Import controls of rare species scrapped
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'Business as usual' for traders in toxic waste
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Blocked tunnel may save brown bears
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Research plans 'short-sighted'
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Life under water is rotten to the core
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Hologram to herald resumption of ivory trade
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Top quark glimpsed, possibly
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Risk of miscarriage found in 'clean room' workers
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Putting Asian acid rain on the map
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Opinion
Features
Inventor with a diamond edge: For Ernest Nagy, inventions are there to be used. His simple technique for making thin films of diamond has astounded scientists, while his openness about it has shocked industrialists
Features
Mirage of the shifting sands: The UN is planning another counterattack against advancing deserts. But will it work? And is more land really becoming arid?
Features
Space
Where planets boldly grow
Features
Physics
Why sales reps pose a hard problem
Features
When a reactor blows: A nuclear reactor not far from the south coast of France will undergo a core meltdown six times over the next six years. It will be no accident, but part of a unique experiment
Features
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Forum: Taking a pot shot at the truth mongers - Amorey Gethin claims that social scientists should explain themselves
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Thistle Diary: Poisonous times in the countryside - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Review: The sense and sensibility of bird preservation
Books & Arts
Forum: When will Earthlings see the light? - Nigel Henbest believes that NASA's search for ET is on the wrong wavelength
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Review: Images of other worlds
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