Taking the pulse of evolution: Do we owe our existence to short periods of change in the world's climate?
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The hottest rocks on Earth: Ancient lava could hold the key to what happened beneath the Earth's crust more than two and a half billion years ago-and help pinpoint new sources of the world's most valuable minerals
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Fat is a pharmaceutical issue: Every day millions of people turn to diet pills as a last resort. But as drugs companies continue to prey on this desire to be slim, more and more doctors are challenging the chemical fix
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Whose copyright is it anyway?
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News
Technology
Technology: Computer closes in on childhood's secret enemies
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Science: The changeable past of the world's climate
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Science: Women leave indelible mark on evolution
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Science: Nile silt yields secret of Egyptian civilisation
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Science: Secret satellites spy on Earth's trembling 'tear drop'
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Science: The truth about the colour purple
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Science: A supergiant step for black holes
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Technology
Technology: No winners at Chernobyl
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Rotting reservoirs
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Delayed action
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Second blast
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Packed and ready to go home
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Engine embargo
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Stolen fruit
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Mapping by starlight
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City planners against global warming - Rethinking the design of towns and cities could help to restrain the spiralling growth of traffic and cut emissions of carbon dioxide
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Science: Are we living next door to a cannibal?
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Triumvirate steers course for Britain
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Refreshment for the thirsty Everglades
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Whales doing well in the southern seas
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Strands from the dawn of time
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Fossil fuel plans for nuclear station
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Aerial tour of Britain's changing landscape
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Poison tent beats sleeping sickness
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Road plan to save dwindling dormice
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Toxins bloom round French coast
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Surprise quake hit Japan's 'blind spot'
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Welsh reactor shuts for good
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Europe's fishing rules slip through the net
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Tamoxifen trial 'too soon'
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Rare orchids handicap golfers
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Mapper records St Louis blues
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Gene hunters sound warning over gay link
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Opinion
Features
Taking the pulse of evolution: Do we owe our existence to short periods of change in the world's climate?
Features
The hottest rocks on Earth: Ancient lava could hold the key to what happened beneath the Earth's crust more than two and a half billion years ago-and help pinpoint new sources of the world's most valuable minerals
Features
Fat is a pharmaceutical issue: Every day millions of people turn to diet pills as a last resort. But as drugs companies continue to prey on this desire to be slim, more and more doctors are challenging the chemical fix
Features
Whose copyright is it anyway?
Features
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Paperbacks - Roy Herbert weighs up the lives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Isaac Newton, looks at left-handedness, sheep slayers and near death experiences, and ponders the mystery of speech
Books & Arts
Review: Authoriatarian attitudes in the schoolroom
Books & Arts
Review: Patterns for existence
Books & Arts
Review: A community of birds revealed
Books & Arts
Review: The writing on the landscape
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