Survival of the fittest molecules: One way of inventing new drugs and industrial catalysts is to tinker laboriously with nature's chemistry set. A better approach may be to mimic evolution in the test tube
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Black holes reveal themselves
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Making money mining gas: Extracting gas from unexploitable coalfields can be profitable. But getting fuel flowing is still a matter of chance
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Pixel tricks enrich flicks
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Corporate shades of green: 'Environmental audits' are the latest buzzwords in the greening of business. But are they just PR gloss, or are companies using them to tackle serious issues?
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Technology
Technology: Video buffs take home the reel thing
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Technology: Space 'umbrella' lights up the Earth
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Science: The trouble with solar neutrinos. . .
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Technology: British buses to run on flower power
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Science: Drug detective could help Parkinson's patients
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Science: Cosmic tennis blasts particles to infinity
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Science: Strange comet that came in from the cold
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Science: How to tits divide the spoils?
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Science: The dubious chemistry of desire
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Science: Will the Universe expand forever?
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Focus: Messages for the minister - William Waldegrave has canvassed far and wide for advice on shaping his forthcoming White Paper on science. What do the researchers who are working at the sharp end think?
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Science: Japanese join hunt for black holes
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Mystery syndrome
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Disengagement
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Backpacking toad gets travel bug
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Halon plateau
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Rescuers rescued
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Radon mines
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Spanning the globe
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Top quark man
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Legal confusion cuts French cornea transplants
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Dutch panic over polio outbreak
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Viruses in the electronic village
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Thais bypass blackouts with new energy campaign
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End of a golden age for proton research
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UN mounts last-ditch bid to save rhinos
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Flood water could wash away salt mine treasures
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Australia exports poisonous 'lentils'
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Brussels seeks bigger say in space plans
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Maastricht cloud over Framework
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Flamingos flourish in northern Germany
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Universities face outside competition for funds
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First round lost in battle to patent genes
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Landmark on human gene map
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Danes wary about engineered animals
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Doubts grow over Earth Summit promises
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Lead pipes must go to meet tougher targets
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Glasgow pays the price of childhood poverty
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Opinion
Features
Survival of the fittest molecules: One way of inventing new drugs and industrial catalysts is to tinker laboriously with nature's chemistry set. A better approach may be to mimic evolution in the test tube
Features
Black holes reveal themselves
Features
Making money mining gas: Extracting gas from unexploitable coalfields can be profitable. But getting fuel flowing is still a matter of chance
Features
Pixel tricks enrich flicks
Features
Corporate shades of green: 'Environmental audits' are the latest buzzwords in the greening of business. But are they just PR gloss, or are companies using them to tackle serious issues?
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Forum: Incentives for a life in science - As the Royal Society reports on the future of the science base, its president - Michael Atiyah suggests some ways to rescue British science from the doldrums
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Review: All polluted on the Eastern front
Books & Arts
Review: Feynman for children
Books & Arts
Review: Evolving visions of space and time
Books & Arts
Forum: How crumpled clothes could save the world - Vitali Matsarski questions whether ironing should be treated as a global environmental problem
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