Rich seams for chemicals
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Where the power lies: While the world may have vast stocks of fossil fuels, exploiting them is far from straightforward
Features
A very dirty business
Features
In search of a better burn: Coal could be the world's most attractive fuel in 20 years' time - clean and efficient to use, and in plentiful supply
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Cleaning up with cheap technology: The perfectly clean coal-fired generator may lie far in the future, but technologies that would be excellent stopgaps already exist. The biggest obstacle appears to be the generating companies
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Technology
Technology: Acid bath makes methane easier to handle
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Technology
Technology: Bubble-jet forces faxes into the future
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Science: Beast from the deep puzzles zoologists
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Science: Partners of Parkinson's patients show mild symptoms
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Science: Penguin chicks given a run for their mummy
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Science: A touching story of binary asteriods
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Science: Quantum double-talk makes messages cheaper
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Science for sale
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Sparkling silence settles on Rome
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Deadly dessert
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River blindness
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Big Blue's blues
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Deep sleep
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Focus: Buddy, can you spare a contract? - A constant threat of unemployment hangs over thousands of university researchers on short-term contracts. Now is the government's chance to offer them a career structure
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Biology bounces buckyballs out of charts
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Mystery marsupial
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Tempers flare over plan to mine protected wetland
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Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!
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Rocket debris rains down on Arctic
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False start for Brazil's satellite
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The magnetism of hidden Troy
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Plague of locusts
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Russia starts crach nuclear power programme
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Race, crimes and genetic fingerprints
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Doubts over DNA evidence 'exaggerated'
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Nature breaks up Iraqi toxic trail
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Chemical weapons ban: now for the hard work
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Triumph of a long campaign
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Pets need protection from the Sun
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'Dispersed' oil comes back to haunt Shetland
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For want of a pipe the ship was lost
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Breathless in Oracle, Arizona
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Vital research caught in patent crossfire
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Opinion
Features
Rich seams for chemicals
Features
Where the power lies: While the world may have vast stocks of fossil fuels, exploiting them is far from straightforward
Features
A very dirty business
Features
In search of a better burn: Coal could be the world's most attractive fuel in 20 years' time - clean and efficient to use, and in plentiful supply
Features
Cleaning up with cheap technology: The perfectly clean coal-fired generator may lie far in the future, but technologies that would be excellent stopgaps already exist. The biggest obstacle appears to be the generating companies
Features
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Thistle Diary: Nuclear goalposts and old tyres - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Forum: Through a glass strangely - Tony Lang has seen the light disperse and is confused
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Forum: Spelling it right in Karachi - Sidney Perkowitz is in search of immortalisation
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Forum: Frankenstein stalks the urban jungle - Alison Brooks goes in search of the legends of science
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Review: Thanks for the memories
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