Breast cancer: turning figures into facts - Recent findings have raised women's hopes of better treatment for breast cancer. How were the results reached and how easily can the improvements be put into practice?
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Stalking the safe mushroom: People are risking indigestion for the sake of a tasty morsel of mushroom. Spotting the safe varieties is a fine art
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The mind of a very special machine?: Likening the mind to a computer does not have to be dehumanising. For the computational systems that interest psychologists are no ordinary 'machines'
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The thinking woman's guide to the mind: Philosopher and self-styled computational psychologist, Margaret Boden uses artificial intelligence as a way of understanding aspects of the human mind
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Piecing together the Pacific: The largest ocean of the world is also the oldest, according to a new reconstruction of the position of the continents nearly 750 million years ago
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News
Engineering becomes art
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Zagury cleared
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Blood and body bags
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Gulf viruses
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Nuclear families
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Science: Six-bonded silicon surprises the chemists
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Science: Polluted atmosphere offsets ozone hole
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Science: Supernova debris broadcasts its latest hit
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Science: Harmful ultraviolet doubles in Antarctica
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Science: Do bigger eggs breed stronger birds?
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Science: Why microwave cooking fails the taste test
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Science: Colder winters for northern Africa as deserts expand
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Technology
Technology: 'Inertia' keeps Britian's roads noisy
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Sex-test confusion could create havoc at Olympics
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Spanish athlete wins the gender contest
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'Uranium for sale' rumours spark new proliferation fears
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HIV in prison
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German jobs
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The space probe that lost its voice. . .
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Japanese budget ruled out support for US supercollider
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Satellite companies fight a war of interference
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Are Americans older than we thought?
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'Recession has ended' says electronic economist
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British university pitches for postgraduates
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Clean up, or else
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Police attacked over DNA fingerprinting
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Campaigner arrested
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Rush to patent human genes 'will hinder research'
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Gene therapy promises cure for cystic fibrosis
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Doubts over animal health delay milk hormone
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Charities want guidelines for breast cancer treatment
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Technology
Technology: No safe place yet for toxic waste
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Technology
Technology: Motorists head for windscreen displays
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Technology
Technology: Neural network, teach thyself
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Opinion
Features
Breast cancer: turning figures into facts - Recent findings have raised women's hopes of better treatment for breast cancer. How were the results reached and how easily can the improvements be put into practice?
Features
Stalking the safe mushroom: People are risking indigestion for the sake of a tasty morsel of mushroom. Spotting the safe varieties is a fine art
Features
The mind of a very special machine?: Likening the mind to a computer does not have to be dehumanising. For the computational systems that interest psychologists are no ordinary 'machines'
Features
The thinking woman's guide to the mind: Philosopher and self-styled computational psychologist, Margaret Boden uses artificial intelligence as a way of understanding aspects of the human mind
Features
Piecing together the Pacific: The largest ocean of the world is also the oldest, according to a new reconstruction of the position of the continents nearly 750 million years ago
Features
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Forum: The air sacs and the tennis court - Mark Williams finds fault with some established truths
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Thistle Diary: Make hay while the birds live - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Review: Buckyballs, diamonds from junk
Books & Arts
Review: Exhibition in London's Natural History
Books & Arts
Forum: Why science education is failing - Green science teachers should give up photosynthesis, argues Guy Claxton
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Forum: Between a rock and a hard place - Bob Ward calls for action to end the postgraduate poverty
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Forum: In the nuclear hot seat - Roger Milne meets Britain's chief nuclear regulator
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Review: A speculative account of physics
Books & Arts
Review: Evidence after death
Books & Arts
Review: Looking anew at science
Books & Arts
Review: Histories built on animal bones
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