The perils of green pessimism: We have no business advising on environmental policy until all the evidence is in. If we do, we risk undermining the best scientific practice
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When electrons go with the flow: Remove the obstacles that create electrical resistance, and you get ballistic electrons and a quantum surprise
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Can LA kick the car habit? America's second biggest city opened its first underground railway this year. But can a city that has grown up without extensive public transport change its ways and abandon private cars?
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Stalking HIV in the red light district: Statistical methods developed by ecologists to count animals in the wild are finding an unlikely new lease of life as health officials try to monitor the spread of HIV
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Technology
Technology: Carbon fibre smartens up concrete
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Science: Buckyball film is no rough diamond
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Technology
Technology: Now, the videophone in your PC
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Russia throws out shuttle programme
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Research chiefs fearful as privatisation looms
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Warren Spring closure: has the decision been taken?
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Friendly DNA kit for schools
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Imitating art
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Hot potatoes
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Cable link-up
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Tarnished mile
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Pumping less carbon
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Skins smuggled
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Britain's dirty deeds at Maralinga: Fresh evidence suggests that Britain knew in the 1960s that radioactivity at its former nuclear test site in Australia was worse than first thought. But it did not tell the Australians
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Science: How carbon dioxide makes dyeing better
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Science: Gravitational potholes pull in the stars
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Science: How to spot nitric oxide in the body
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Science: Asteroid crater buried beneath the sea bed
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Science: 'Supershells' tell of galactic cannibalism
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Science: Animals and fungi closer than anyone expected
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Science: Neutrinos are insufficient to hold galaxies together
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Was killer virus carried by rats?
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Zimbabwe to end experiment in conservation?
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South Africa's bantam satellite weighs in at air show
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A la recherche du perks perdu
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Japan 'forgets' giant canal
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Third World aid is 'too political'
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Solar electrons mimic ozone hole
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Uganda's AIDS agony revealed
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Cash could cut epidemic by half
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Condors clash with the modern world
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Panel hears conflicting views on biology of violence
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Worst-hit areas lose out in plan to cut acid rain
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Shareholders' greed destroys Britain's R&D
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Will Clinton get the electronic message?
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Opinion
Features
The perils of green pessimism: We have no business advising on environmental policy until all the evidence is in. If we do, we risk undermining the best scientific practice
Features
When electrons go with the flow: Remove the obstacles that create electrical resistance, and you get ballistic electrons and a quantum surprise
Features
Can LA kick the car habit? America's second biggest city opened its first underground railway this year. But can a city that has grown up without extensive public transport change its ways and abandon private cars?
Features
Stalking HIV in the red light district: Statistical methods developed by ecologists to count animals in the wild are finding an unlikely new lease of life as health officials try to monitor the spread of HIV
Features
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Heart attacks
Inside Science
Forum: The Biggest Story Ever Told - Barry Fox recalls the days when the screens were big and curved
Forum
Review: Noble tales of molecules and men
Books & Arts
Forum: What price coal research? - Ian Fells fears that Britain is in danger of destroying its innovative industrial base
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Review: Food for thought
Books & Arts
