Where did you get your brains? – Baby mice may inherit their mother's wits and their father's basicinstincts, but what does this mean for us, asks Gail Vines
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A drop in the ocean - Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports
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An inside story
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The heat is on – As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants' noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate
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News
Science : Toxic chemistry turns air acid
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Technology
Technology : Human cells make `perfect' proteins
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Science : Chimps beat HIV with loop vaccine
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Technology
Technology : Smart window spells curtains for blinds
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Technology
Netropolitan :
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Technology
Technology : Radiation beams de-ice planes
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Science : Mighty mountains grow in hot climes
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Science : Scorpius star is twinned with Sun
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Science : Pigeons play follow my leader
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Science : Galaxy points `finger' of antimatter
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Science : Heroin habit linked to gene
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Science : Did ancient gases inspire powers of prophecy?
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Secrets and lies in Europe
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The longest number ever crunched
News
Young hearts
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Acid future
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Three-tailed comet
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Salt of the sea
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Domain dispute
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Treaty triumph
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Sucked dry
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Troubled TV station seeks help from space
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You won't want to tangle with the NYPD
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Killer fungus swarms all over locusts
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`Laundered' birds fly out of New Zealand
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Heirs of the Vikings cash in on their heritage
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New view of death could save thousands of lives
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Space monkeys `were put at risk'
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Chinese biotech woos the West
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Net lobby praises German bill
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Burning plastic raises a stink
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Data police warn corporate Web miners
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Superbug spectre haunts Japan
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Opinion
Features
Where did you get your brains? – Baby mice may inherit their mother's wits and their father's basicinstincts, but what does this mean for us, asks Gail Vines
Features
A drop in the ocean - Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports
Features
An inside story
Features
The heat is on – As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants' noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate
Features
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Forum : Cruelty at the hands of the critics
Forum
Washington diary : Icy moons and leaky secrets - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
Forum
AustralAsian : When the company engineer meets the lab scientist - Bob Johnstone talks to a physicist working with Sony
Forum
Review : Festival times
Books & Arts
Review : Stalin rules
Books & Arts
Review : Birth of reason
Books & Arts
Review : Magnetic south
Books & Arts
Review : Tick-tock, tick-tock
Books & Arts
Review : Pills and spills
Books & Arts
Review : A hundred years young
Books & Arts
Review : Animal rights, beastly wrongs
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works
Books & Arts
Bestsellers : from London
Books & Arts
Forum : The big, the small and the average
Forum
Review : Do you feel lucky?
Books & Arts
Review : God and sex
Books & Arts
Review : Into the deep blue yonder
Books & Arts
Review : Crypto debate
Books & Arts
Review : Happy daze
Books & Arts
