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Letters: In a spin

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Letters: In a spin

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Letters: In a spin

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Feedback

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Thistle Diary: Cowardice and mega-nonsense? - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Letters: No handcuffs

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Letters: Natural failings

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Letters: Storm in a teacup

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Letters: Applied handicaps

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Review: Art that reaches the parts the eye cannot see

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Review: Many minds and the quantum muddle

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Review: Bellamy's natural health warning

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Review: Flowing waters of war

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Review: Damage limitation in the earthquake zone

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Review: No compromise where the wild things are

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Forum: When the lights of reason go out - Francis Slakey ponders the faces of fantasy and New Age scientists

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Forum: Decline of the British university system - Denis Tither offers an academic view from industry

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The assault on B12: The gargantuan task of unravelling nature's route to vitamin B12 is almost complete. Alan Battersby has the summit in sight

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Road to ruin for Britain's wildlife: For more than forty years, conserving our natural environment has depended on sites of special scientific interest. Why is the government helping to bulldoze this scheme?

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Danger! Scientists at work - Dodging molten lava, sharks or gun-toting landowners - it's all in a day's work for some scientists

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Banksia: a life in pictures - This week an exhibition of watercolours opens at Kew to celebrate the first attempt to record an entire plant genus. But by the time the project ends some of the species may be extinct

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Technology: Shocking weapon of self-defence

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Technology: Talking to your television

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Technology: Wrist pager stores a little problem

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RSI on trial: More people suffering from repetitive strain injury are seeking compensation in court as fresh evidence comes to light about the symptoms and causes of this crippling disorder

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Technology: Murdoch's cryptic vision for global TV

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Technology: X-rays find growing future with seeds

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Technology: Big Brother is counting your vote

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Technology: Mapping the points where fits begin

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Technology: Virtually anyone could drive across Mars

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Technology: Video CDs will be seen, not heard

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Technology: A TV sensor to reduce fuel bills - Europe's annual showcase for electronic products, the Funkausstellung in Berlin, ran from 27 August to 5 September this year and attracted 740 exhibitors from 33 countries to its 30 halls and pavilions. Bar

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Science: Crops stand up to killer chemicals

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Science: Mutation helps dog-whelks survive toxic paint

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Science: Genes turn on to a puff of gas

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Science: Brown diamond gives up its secret

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Science: Hormone mimic sets a long-lasting trap to catch a tsetse fly

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Drugs take the iron out of malaria's fire

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Rising to Waldegrave's challenge . . .

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. . . with a boson at the Tories' cocktail party

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Can a culture stop AIDS in its tracks?

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Science: The day the lightning broke all records

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Science: How salamanders survive the deep freeze

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Timbers with a tale to tell

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Time to get out of the ghetto

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Wandered lonely as a scientist . . .

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Seagulls do the dirty on Dutch shellfish trade

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Having the guts to arrest brain disease

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Peck the button and sing along

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T. rex growled like a gippy tummy

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MS drug shortage prompts patient 'lottery'

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Space pact gives Russia a share of Freedom

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Weapons experts target counterfeit clothes

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Did northern forests stave of global warming?

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Britain 'ignores' Rio summit pledges

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Cash cuts squeeze research

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Key staff at Warren Spring refuse to move

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Hands off northern Siberia, oil companies told

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Comment: Runaway disaster

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