A glimpse at the evolution of life through mouldy bread
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Move over, San Andreas: Evidence from California's biggest quake in 40 years has fuelled a controversial theory that the continental margin is being recarved . . . 400 kilometres inland
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A death in the neighbourhood: Why did a giant red star turn orange before it died? Who stole its hydrogen? And what does it mean for the astronomers on the case?
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Waiting for the Big One: California's latest earthquake had a hidden and unexpected source. If it's a harbinger of worse to come, seismologists could be looking for the next one in the wrong place too
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They overheat horses, don't they?: Intense heat and humidity could provide one test too many for horses at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, says John Bonner. Researchers are desperately trying to find ways of keeping the animals cool
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Technology
Technology: Vaccine against gangrene could save limbs
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Technology
Technology: Apple bids for PC power
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Technology
Technology: Billing computers innocent, says BT
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Patents: Don't call us
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Patents: Brainstorming cure
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Patents: Software minnow triumphs over Microsoft
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Patents: Can-dough yeast
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Science: Living fast, dying young in the rainforest
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Snooper sale
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Majority rule for science: South Africa's first democratically elected government has a monumental task ahead in reforming a science system twisted by 45 years of apartheid
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Science: Female turtles play the field
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Science: No respite for Pacific mackerel as stocks dwindle
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Airlines take ozone monitors on board
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Intimate secrets of the snake's forked tongue
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Patients could lose out in tussle over gene bank
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Give us the dough to crack whet genome
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Only cohere
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Waste 'is safe'
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Very model molecules
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Macho munchers
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Post mortem
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Books to bedding
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Exercise machine works out the perfect work-out
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CERN plans shutdown to finance collider
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Swimming pool observatory fills gamma ray gap
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SET for success as science goes down the pan
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Fossil smugglers plunder Brazil
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Supermac's damp squibs
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Closely observed near misses
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Royal Society slams hasty review
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Millions at stake over 'human' mouse
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Opinion
Features
A glimpse at the evolution of life through mouldy bread
Features
Move over, San Andreas: Evidence from California's biggest quake in 40 years has fuelled a controversial theory that the continental margin is being recarved . . . 400 kilometres inland
Features
A death in the neighbourhood: Why did a giant red star turn orange before it died? Who stole its hydrogen? And what does it mean for the astronomers on the case?
Features
Waiting for the Big One: California's latest earthquake had a hidden and unexpected source. If it's a harbinger of worse to come, seismologists could be looking for the next one in the wrong place too
Features
They overheat horses, don't they?: Intense heat and humidity could provide one test too many for horses at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, says John Bonner. Researchers are desperately trying to find ways of keeping the animals cool
Features
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Review: Voyages round your computer
Books & Arts
Forum: So farewell Treem - and Bill Tidy - After 24 years on the front line, Grimbledon Down is closing down
Forum
Review: Rich pickings in deserted cities
Books & Arts
Review: How to play with the elements
Books & Arts
Review: Make your own morphic resonance kit
Books & Arts
