Over the edge: stress and schizophrenia - Recent research suggests schizophrenia is a brain disease activated by stress, opening up new avenues of help for sufferers
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Inside the mind of a monkey
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Stay awake, stay alive: Every year, thousands of motorway accidents seem to be caused by drivers falling asleep. The problem is particularly acute at early morning and late afternoon
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Mining with microbes: Extracting metals from low-grade ores is usually a tricky business, but some bacteria have no problems with it. The metal industry is using these tiny helpers to make their mines both green and profitable
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Europe debates the ownership of life: In an attempt to harmonise laws across Europe, officials in Brussels are wrestling with the legal and moral issues of whether companies should have the right to patent life
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Technology
Technology: Rapid screening for dental X-rays
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Technology: Police computer fuels fears of 'European connection'
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Technology: Simpler software smooths the path to the stars
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Technology: Tidings of great ill for CD pirates
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Technology: Slim circuits trim the fat off silicon chips
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Science: Curious case of the self-destructing galaxies
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Science: Genetic weeding and feeding for tobacco plants
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Science: Astronomers double the age of the Universe
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Nuclear crash
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Nuclear jobs
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Nuclear loss
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Heritage in danger
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A star for Europe
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Australian sheep let their hair down
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AIDS progress
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Soviets cut interference
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Baby monkey brings joy to conservationists
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Changing numbers spell costly chaos
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Bombers target Scottish primate centre
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Tough assignment for Russia's new science supremo
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Good hope for Cape's endangered medicinal plants
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Thirty years on: the secret plot to kill Blue Streak
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Nuclear extravagance
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Energy charter
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Poverty holds up Africa's fight against AIDS
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'Slower' virus is also a killer
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Siberians menaced by radiation lurking in lake
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UN fears pollution curbs could raise temperatures
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Opinion
Features
Over the edge: stress and schizophrenia - Recent research suggests schizophrenia is a brain disease activated by stress, opening up new avenues of help for sufferers
Features
Inside the mind of a monkey
Features
Stay awake, stay alive: Every year, thousands of motorway accidents seem to be caused by drivers falling asleep. The problem is particularly acute at early morning and late afternoon
Features
Mining with microbes: Extracting metals from low-grade ores is usually a tricky business, but some bacteria have no problems with it. The metal industry is using these tiny helpers to make their mines both green and profitable
Features
Europe debates the ownership of life: In an attempt to harmonise laws across Europe, officials in Brussels are wrestling with the legal and moral issues of whether companies should have the right to patent life
Features
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Forum: Keep death off the homes - British winters kill far too many people, says Crispin Aubrey
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Forum: A hospital for nonhumans - Gail Vines has been visiting a wildlife teaching hospital
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Thistle Diary: Ill-judged parsimony with our partners - Comment from Westminster
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Forum: Intimations of natural selection - Ralph Estling wonders whether it's worth frustrating foxes
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Forum: The ancient art of peer review - Wolf Seufert has been digging into the archives
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Review: Chernobyl - Insight From The Inside
Books & Arts
Review: Iconoclasts and mathematics
Books & Arts
Review: The war declared on the mosquito
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Review: Velvet Mites and Silken Webs
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Review: A history of the world's view of the past
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Review: It's a visible gas
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Review: Just hanging on the telephone
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