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Worlds beyond matter

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What's logic got to do with it?

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Technology : X-ray lens brings finer chips into focus

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Tabletop telescope with cosmic ambitions

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Science : Comet clue to missing neutrinos

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Bright light, black hole

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Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights

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Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe

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Science : Do X-ray comets shed carbon?

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Technology : I spy with my lobster eye

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Space

Planes, trains and wormholes

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Powerhouses of the cosmos: Gravity's Fatal Attraction by Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees, W.H. Freeman, £19.95/$32.95, ISBN 0 7167 5074 0

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