Obscure origins of desire: As researchers chart the links between brain and behaviour, they have stirred up a fierce debate over whether the roots of homosexuality lie in the womb
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This week's magazine
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Can nuclear power ever pay its way?: Postwar pioneers were convinced they could generate electricity cheaply. But nearly 40 years later, nuclear power is still struggling to survive without subsidies
Features
Fears, fantasies and fallout: Fuelled by images from science fiction and startling claims from scientists, our perception of nuclear energy has run out of control. But, with some respect, not irreversibly so
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Arms and the ban: The world has failed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. Total disarmament may now be the only way of insuring stability and averting disaster
Features
The day Chicago went critical
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Technology
In good conscience
Features
Recovering from the Cold War: Now that old adversaries are gone, Britain should consider how military research could help the nonmilitary sector
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News
Patents: Filling in the gaps
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Patents: Licensing makes for a fair fight
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Technology
Technology: Brain scan gives fresh angle on Alzheimer's
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Technology
Technology: Computer responds to the tender touch
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Technology
Technology: Dry run for deepest dive
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Technology
Technology: French opt for overkill on hospital waste
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Technology
Technology: Black box gives Indy racing a crash course in safety
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Technology
Technology: Robodoc carves a place in medical history
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Science: Arctic ozone threatened by greenhouse warming . . .
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Science: . . . and dust from last year's volcanoes
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Science: Fish fathers are set good parenting test
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Science: Plants that can do what chemists can't
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Science: The Milky Way's shrinking heart
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Science: Fastest laser pulses yet
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Science: Rock art evokes beastly echoes of the past
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Crystals fail the microgravity test
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Island telescope
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Brain drain saps Russia's space plans
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Focus: The battle for Britain's bogs - Lowland bogs are the last remnants of an ancient landscape. A report published last week warns that their existence is seriously threatened
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Woke up this morning with those chaotic blues
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Scince advisers call for radical reforms
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Secrets of China's toenails
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Blood scandal rocks New Zealand
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Bush's 'boring' tapes
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Europe wrangles over Herman's sex life
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Cloud of colour in the Amazon
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Icy reception
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Reactor abandoned
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Questions over origin of Darwin cash
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The shadow that follows the march of HIV
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Too little, too late for India's dams?
News
Opinion
Features
Obscure origins of desire: As researchers chart the links between brain and behaviour, they have stirred up a fierce debate over whether the roots of homosexuality lie in the womb
Features
Can nuclear power ever pay its way?: Postwar pioneers were convinced they could generate electricity cheaply. But nearly 40 years later, nuclear power is still struggling to survive without subsidies
Features
Fears, fantasies and fallout: Fuelled by images from science fiction and startling claims from scientists, our perception of nuclear energy has run out of control. But, with some respect, not irreversibly so
Features
Arms and the ban: The world has failed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. Total disarmament may now be the only way of insuring stability and averting disaster
Features
The day Chicago went critical
Features
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Thistle Diary: To be, or not to bee: that is the question - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Dark thoughts on bright skies - Derek McNally thinks we are interfering too much with the world of astronomy
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Forum: Repeat prescription for London's ills - Donald Gould says teaching hospitals should not be saved at the expense of community care
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Review: The earth sciences in one box
Books & Arts
Review: Square meals for information scavengers
Books & Arts
In Search of a Better World: The world according to Karl Popper
Books & Arts
Review: A voyage of fun through the Universe
Books & Arts
Forum: A breakthrough or just another bomb? - William Bown considers the justification for commemorating the science of destruction
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Review: Christmas comes early for the techie
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