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The queen's favourite forger

Features

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Thrill or chill

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Inside story

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Beastly passions

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Shallow grave

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News

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Carbon guzzlers

WARM springs cause trees to increase their take-up of carbon, complicating efforts to determine the link between climate change and the carbon cycle. A new study of a deciduous forest in Canada shows that it takes up more carbon in years with warm springs, says Andy Black of the University of British Columbia. The average …

News

Toxic mop

News

Crunch time

News

Flying by smell

News

All in the mind

News

Trial by laptop

News

Water cooled

News

Ticked off

News

Easy MP3

News

Easy clean

News

Macedonian mix-up

News

Good Samaritans are really vampires

News

It's not our fault

News

Mysterious particles go round the bend

News

Hitting the nerve

News

Robostripper makes short work of old paint

News

Health

Warning signals

News

Technology

Up and away

News

Technology

Softening the impact

News

Technology

Blood blocker

News

Rainbow vision

News

Eggs with attitude

News

Savour the aroma

News

Identifying victims of pesticide poisoning

News

On the record

News

Technology

Stolen moments

News

Counting the cost

News

Surprises in store

News

Weakened by disease

News

Prize skull

News

Please come . . .

News

Life

Elephant nations call a truce

News

Life

Plant poachers

News

Life

Eating our relatives

News

Life

Shawls of shame

News

Life

Save our sharks

News

Life

Shell shock

News

Wild at heart

News

Space

There's no ER in orbit

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

IT CAN happen to anyone. You go into a store, see an item you like the look of, find that you have just enough money to pay for it and, when the clerk rings it up, you realise you forgot to add on sales tax and can't afford it. That's how Representative James Sensenbrenner felt …

Opinion

Learning business

Opinion

Trouble ahead

Opinion

My pet possum

Opinion

Road to survival

Opinion

Features

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The queen's favourite forger

Small, thin and tarnished, the silver sixpence doesn't look like the cause of so much trouble. But the clues are there. Its impressions of the bejewelled Queen Elizabeth I and of the English and French coats of arms are clear-cut. Its edge is sharp and almost perfectly round. For, unlike its predecessors, this coin was …

Features

Thrill or chill

Features

Inside story

Features

Beastly passions

Features

Shallow grave

Features

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See Mars!

The success of Mars Pathfinder—100 million hits on the NASA website—did not go unnoticed by Hollywood. Now, three years later, we have Brian de Palma's Mission to Mars. The makers did their homework on Mars, but lost the plot with the, er, plot. NASA's scientists, with $70 million to play with, would have created a …

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Books & Arts

One man's cosmos

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Drowning in it

Books & Arts

Beauty in distress

Books & Arts

Save me

Books & Arts

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Feedback

READERS with a taste for the banal may be interested in a new online magazine, the Journal of Mundane Behavior. Hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, the JMB is a "scholarly journal devoted to the study of the `unmarked'—those aspects of our …

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