Maps that shape the world: Like a huge piece of orange peel
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A better recipe for making materials: In the industrial kitchens where materials are made, smart sensors and mathematical models are replacing rules of thumb and trial and error
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Did Tibet cool the world?: When India and Asia collided more
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No way to treat a body: Ten thousand people in Britain alone injure themselves deliberately and regularly. Why do they do it and how can they stop?
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Technology
Technology: Global positioning helps the world to know its
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Science: A young star on the edge of Galactic darkness
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Science: Heated exchange preserves life in desert
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Science: Hubble catches the last gasps of a dying star
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Science: Record-breaking reaction that has gone to pot
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Technology
Technology: Hi ho, hi ho, let's clean up Snow White
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Technology
Technology: The smart way to pay your fare
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Science: Thousand-page proof vindicates Fermat
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'AIDS tsar' named
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Cheaper condoms
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Cholera scare
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Rabies risk
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France's troubled transplant trade: The case of a dead teenager whose eyes were removed without his parents' consent shocked the French public. It exposed a transplant system riddled with legal and ethical failings
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Off target
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Saved for now
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Space repairs
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Spiders welcome a watery fen
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Disagreement fells timber treaty
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Anxiety mounts over 'divorce settlement'
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US takes a closer look at nuclear test veterans
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Two more victims of 'antiscience' bombing campaign
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Russia joins Eureka scheme
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Secret scientists threaten to strike
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The lab at the bottom of the sea
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Women hit hardest by HIV in divided South Africa
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How greenery can transform summer in the city
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Braer 'spill' exposes huge holes in emergency plans
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A painful problem for men and women
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Bank to bale out Bulgaria's reactors
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Chernobyl's critical lessons filter through
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Australia takes tough line on 'HIV plant'
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Game, set and match for Wimbledon wind tunnel
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Aliens slip through international 'safety net'
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Technology
Technology: Bookmaker looks for favourite with electronic punters
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Opinion
Features
Maps that shape the world: Like a huge piece of orange peel
Features
A better recipe for making materials: In the industrial kitchens where materials are made, smart sensors and mathematical models are replacing rules of thumb and trial and error
Features
Did Tibet cool the world?: When India and Asia collided more
Features
No way to treat a body: Ten thousand people in Britain alone injure themselves deliberately and regularly. Why do they do it and how can they stop?
Features
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Forum: Dr Faustus meets the dinosaurs - Douglas Palmer on the shortcomings of Steven Spielberg's latest scary monsters
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Forum: Time to join the real world - Carol Dent argues that research councils must learn to love the marketplace
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Software: How to handle quick connections to the net, symbolic algebra, text and circuits on screen
Books & Arts
Review: Overtaking Star Trek's technology
Books & Arts
Review: Silicon futures
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