Pioneer, the persistent probe: Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to head for Jupiter, proved that probes could reach the outer planets of our Solar System. Twenty years on, it is sending us messages from interstellar space
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Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer
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Conservation and the ivory tower
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The oldest ice in the world: Snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved in the Greenland icecap. Drilling this summer will unlock the clues it holds to the climate before the last ice age
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Storm warning over Southeast Asia: Many developing countries say the North has sown the seeds of global warming. But a new report shows that it is the South that could reap the whirlwind
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Technology
Technology: Book and blackboard rolled into one
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Technology
Technology: Hot chips chill out with 19th-century heat pump . . .
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Technology
Technology: . . . while diamonds provide a cooler coating
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Technology
Technology: All change as Manchester brings back the tram
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Patents: Flying dustbuster
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Patents: Mac happy
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Patents: Still pending in the old Soviet Union
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Patents: Smokers only
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Patents: Military secrets
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Science: Will electrons charge down the buckytube?
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Science: Kenyan fossil from skull of oldest human
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Science: How 'mutant' molecules fight for survival
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Science: Puzzle of galaxy that points two ways
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Technology
Technology: 'Human' antibody goes on trial
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Bankrupt watchdog
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Sakharov centres
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Keeping track of penguin power
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Car recycling
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Dangerous journey
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Bright spot
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Implants in question
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Telephone U-turn
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Science: Hole in the sky stunts Antarctic plankton
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Science: A glass of urine a day keeps the stress away
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Science: Winking stars could reveal Galaxy's black hole
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Water tribunal rules on Cree homelands
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Wayward current takes California by storm
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Bears 'worth more dead than alive'
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Amazon nations name their price
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LINK scheme earns mixed reviews
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Officials eat humble pie over mystery noise
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Death sentence for pit bulls that breach the law
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Cot death studies hampered by imprecise terms
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Sanctions hit Iraq's ancient sites
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Russia breathes life into 'nuclear' monster
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Fresh safety concerns stall anti-cancer trial
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Europe bans CFCs
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Mind
High lead levels may permanently lower IQ
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Bids close in BTG sale
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Commons calls for break-up of green police
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Faraday or Newton to bridge the innovation gap
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Science jobs separate the prunes from the plums
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Opinion
Features
Pioneer, the persistent probe: Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to head for Jupiter, proved that probes could reach the outer planets of our Solar System. Twenty years on, it is sending us messages from interstellar space
Features
Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer
Features
Conservation and the ivory tower
Features
The oldest ice in the world: Snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved in the Greenland icecap. Drilling this summer will unlock the clues it holds to the climate before the last ice age
Features
Storm warning over Southeast Asia: Many developing countries say the North has sown the seeds of global warming. But a new report shows that it is the South that could reap the whirlwind
Features
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Thistle Diary: Give and take with Community cash - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Running out of time - Garry Smith thinks he knows when the world could end
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Forum: Classrooms and conservation - Anthony Toole bemoans the impact of exams on the environment
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Forum: Freud, fantasy or filing cabinet? - Donald Gould dreams of getting to the bottom of dreams
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Review: The labels that cripple
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