Rescuing minds from disease and decay: Molecular genetics and brain scanning technologies are bringing the dream of repairing damaged brains a step closer to reality. But many obstacles still remain
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In search of a single Europe: Despite the escalating financial and intellectual demands of modern research and development, international collaboration in Europe remains patchy
Features
Hydrogen's evangelist: Mark Oliphant dared to suggest that hydrogen could be an exploitable source of energy. Sixty years on, he is still enthusiastic about its potential
Features
Battling on with veteran computers: The computers that underpin our everyday lives are getting old. Can we afford to throw them away or must we learn to live with the drawbacks?
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Superconductors go organic:
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The 'planet' that came in from the cold: The discovery of a world beyond Pluto, some six billion kilometres from the Sun, shows that our inventory of the Solar System has been missing a vital component
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News
UN environment chief defends dam builders
News
Research councils in conflict over policy review
News
Ambulance computer system was 'to complicated'
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Lead in lake blamed for floppy trunks
News
Pride of Prague to have a cleaner face
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Handshake symbolises India's AIDS awareness
News
Britain will plug on fast breeder programme
News
Technology
Technology: A roof and four walls from the sub-Saharan soil
News
Technology
Technology: Cancer test kits
News
Technology
Technology: Virtual emergency clue to people's behaviour
News
Technology
Technology: Taking the snow out of Greenland's television
News
Technology
Technology: Cracking solution
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Technology
Technology: Fast disc sets computer world in a spin
News
Technology
Technology: A tasty dish for farmed fish
News
Technology
Technology: Filtering out cancer's side-effects
News
Science: The splatter effect on Venus
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Science: A small star with a cool companion
News
Technology
Technology: Warding off bullets by a spider's thread
News
Technology
Technology: Clinics are glowing in the wind
News
Science: Genetic test for inherited thyroid cancer
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Science: Cutting X-ray lasers down to size
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Science: Who wants to live forever?
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Timber tales
News
Fine feathers of the male mosquito
News
Mean on matching
News
Biotech controls
News
Sludge for forests
News
Israel tests for HIV
News
Focus: Guess what's coming to dinner? - Creatures created by genetic engineering are used in laboratories, and their meat could soon appear on supermarket shelves. Do these animals raise new ethical issues?
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Science: Gravity waves rule the Universe
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Science: A moving experience for sponges
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Russian chemist faces 15 years
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Is Congress backing the wrong AIDS vaccine?
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'Warnings ignored' on prison blood
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Animal tests
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Roubles run out
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Opinion
Features
Rescuing minds from disease and decay: Molecular genetics and brain scanning technologies are bringing the dream of repairing damaged brains a step closer to reality. But many obstacles still remain
Features
In search of a single Europe: Despite the escalating financial and intellectual demands of modern research and development, international collaboration in Europe remains patchy
Features
Hydrogen's evangelist: Mark Oliphant dared to suggest that hydrogen could be an exploitable source of energy. Sixty years on, he is still enthusiastic about its potential
Features
Battling on with veteran computers: The computers that underpin our everyday lives are getting old. Can we afford to throw them away or must we learn to live with the drawbacks?
Features
Superconductors go organic:
Features
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Review: Reality and dreams in a sea of sculpture
Books & Arts
Forum: It takes two to tango - Howard Newby argues that the link between science and industry is the key
Forum
Forum: Mathematics for everyone - Arturo Sangalli on the challenge of mathematical education
Forum
Thistle Diary: Budgets, black gold and books - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Review: Showing off the cave of delights
Books & Arts
