When shock waves hit traffic: What turns a fast-moving stream of cars into a stagnant pool of frustrated motoists? Bob Holmes talks to the traffic engineers who are beginning to crack the gridlock
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Keeping the blood flowing: Every year, thousands of angina sufferers face at least two hospital visits to clean out their clogged arteries. John Bonner reports on progress to refine the medical equivalent of unblocking the drains
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An instinct for language
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Challenge of the Giant Colliders
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Patents: Chew on this
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Patents: Correcting ozone
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Patents: Cold fusion rides again
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Science: Kinky mystery of gamma-ray bursters
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Technology: Holographic movies come in from the cold
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Technology: Great expectations for optical card trial
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Technology: And now, over to my front room
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Exxon could face billions in damages
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Pretty picture of pollution
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TB thrives
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Antarctic warming
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Spending surge
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Porn problem
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Atmosphere alert
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Digital rocking
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More whale hunts
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Focus: Will the scorpion gene run wild? - Fears over genetic engineering have been heightened by an Oxford scientist's plan to release a virus that carries a gene for scorpion venom. Andy Coghlan reports
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Science: Six inches enough for amateur astronomers
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Science: Beavers' rotten ponds fuel global warming
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Science: Desperate times forced rise of farming
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Science: The north and south of better catalysts
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Iceman's relatives traced to northern Europe
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Shaky start for French grand design
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Transport research jobs cut again
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Is cyber shopping in the bag?
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Hurry, hurry while Cold War stocks last . . .
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Bananas keep cancer at bay
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California's climate poised on a knife edge
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Treaty without a cause?
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Too early for vaccine trials says AIDS experts
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Deaths linked to London smog
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Fetal egg treatment may still be allowed
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Demob dolphins seek good homes
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When shock waves hit traffic: What turns a fast-moving stream of cars into a stagnant pool of frustrated motoists? Bob Holmes talks to the traffic engineers who are beginning to crack the gridlock
Features
Keeping the blood flowing: Every year, thousands of angina sufferers face at least two hospital visits to clean out their clogged arteries. John Bonner reports on progress to refine the medical equivalent of unblocking the drains
Features
Life
An instinct for language
Features
Challenge of the Giant Colliders
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Forum: A write way with papers
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Review: Money makes the universities go round
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Review: Never a dull moment
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Review: Medicine for all
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Review: Software - From Mathematica, the mysteries of complexity for dedicated readers to multimedia, maps, train timetables and the world of entertainment
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