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Science : Game theory backs crackdown on petty crime

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How right can you be?

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Data miners only strike fool's gold

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Specialist books : Knots landing

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Think trivial - You may have been told that only Big Questions can lead to Big Answers. But it ain't necessarily so, says Robert Matthews

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Erratic earthquakes keep forecasters on the hop

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Review : Going nuts over numbers

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Far out forecasting

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Britain's sea walls too low to stop floods

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League tables just don't add up

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Student books : Bayes means finds

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Antigravity machine weighed down by controversy

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