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Laser-toting superpowers turn on the locusts

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The incredible shrinking Mississippi Delta

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Technology: Sunlight gives toxic waste a tanning

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Technology: Record switch speed for silicon transistors

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Endangered squirrels drive Arizona's astronomers nuts

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Technology: Dual vision lenses give a better view

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Technology: Our fibres go further than yours, say Japanese

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In the name of science / Review of 'Lyndon LaRouche and The New American Fascism' by Dennis King

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Technology: Excited crystals put the squeeze on light

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America's migrating birds decline as tropical forests shrink

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Science: Meteorites that struck Moon disrupted Earth's ionosphere

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Science: Newborn stars may grow suddenly brighter

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