Life in a frozen lattice: The white, frozen worlds of the polar ice fields are virtually devoid of life. Yet below the ice, as David Thomas and Gerhard Dieckmann found out, are rich ecosystems with plenty of lessons for the planet
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Offices that breathe naturally: The nests of Western Australia's compass termites have given architects and engineers good ideas about how to keep offices at just the right temperature - naturally. Robert Webb reports
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World Cup 94: fever pitch for facts - Computers will be calling the shots this World Cup as never before. But, as Charles Arthur reports, they'll also be swamping football fans with more facts and figures than they ever knew they wanted to know
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And it's another goal . . .: Deep in the heart of Finland, a former footballer turned professor is pioneering a computer program that he hopes will help make the game more popular. Timo Paukku went to meet him
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Technology
Technology: Detector sniffs out stowaways
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Technology
Technology: Surgeons try out model operations
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Technology
Technology: Lenses lose their lethal glint
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Science: White-hot facelifts for old stars of Milky Way
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Science: Fatal attraction of fungus the parasite
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Science: Sharp-eyed shrimp has binocular vision
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Science: How mothers pass on asthma
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Science: Teeming life in ocean deeps
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Science: A paler shade of coral . . .
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Space
Science: Surfing to the stars on warped space
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Missing moss
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Fewer forms
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Theme park at the heart of rural Britain: The leisure industry is fast becoming the most lucrative of the countryside's cash crops. But at what cost to the environment?
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Healthy babies
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Road to a reptile's stomach
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Major accord
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Could Japan scrap plutonium?
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Toxic trainers run out of town
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US urged to join big physics club
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Monk seals to be captured for breeding study
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Drift net defiance
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Fusion record
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Virtual therapy reaches new heights
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Legal sting for caterpillar virus
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Poor join the cashless society
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Serengeti lions fall prey to distemper
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Counting Africa's trees for the wood . . .
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Bugging the bugs as they gobble the crops
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Europe pushes for a genetically modified future
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Frankenstein syndrome hits climate treaty
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'Molecule of life' is found in space
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Opinion
Features
Life in a frozen lattice: The white, frozen worlds of the polar ice fields are virtually devoid of life. Yet below the ice, as David Thomas and Gerhard Dieckmann found out, are rich ecosystems with plenty of lessons for the planet
Features
Offices that breathe naturally: The nests of Western Australia's compass termites have given architects and engineers good ideas about how to keep offices at just the right temperature - naturally. Robert Webb reports
Features
World Cup 94: fever pitch for facts - Computers will be calling the shots this World Cup as never before. But, as Charles Arthur reports, they'll also be swamping football fans with more facts and figures than they ever knew they wanted to know
Features
And it's another goal . . .: Deep in the heart of Finland, a former footballer turned professor is pioneering a computer program that he hopes will help make the game more popular. Timo Paukku went to meet him
Features
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Review: Time to declare interdependence
Books & Arts
Forum: Science policy in a tug-of-war - Francis Slakey reviews the battle in Washington over the role of the National Science Foundation
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Forum: The complete guide to exam cheating - John Croucher reveals some developing techniques in the hope that this will speed detection
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Review: Recruits to a risky business
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