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Lost and found

ONLY about half the hydrogen gas in the early Universe ended up in galaxies like our own—the rest went missing. Now astronomers claim they've found it. "A substantial amount of it appears to be in superhot clouds hiding in intergalactic space," says Todd Tripp of Princeton University in New Jersey. Astronomers suspected that a huge …

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Seeing through the clouds

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Lie detectors

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Oxygen attack

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Reflect on it

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Sweet salt

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Rivers of fire

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Power struggle

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Space invaders

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Phantom pain

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Worlds without end

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Still hunting

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We lost weight

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Richest of reefs

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Meet Morpheus

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Please eat me

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Moon of mystery

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Space timing

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Want to know the time? Ask the space station

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Life's encyclopedia

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Phone power

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Web wand

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Cloth keyboard

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One giant leap

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For adults only

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Food curbs

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Missile blaster

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Allergy alert

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A droid for all seasons

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Go forth and multiply

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Fix on the flow

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Ride the Net

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Chemo choice

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Baste with oil

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Mum versus Dad

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Killing off an archetype

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Deeper meaning to a glittering enigma

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Blocking tactics

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Humans

Westminster Diary

GEORGE STRAUSS, who was the long-serving MP for the south London constituency of Vauxhall and Minister of Supply in the Labour government led by Clement Attlee fifty years ago, took on the old London Electricity Board in a famous libel case. At issue was whether information provided by Strauss to a constituent and then repeated …

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Not guilty

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Groundhog day

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Only the best will do

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Homeless

IN A few weeks, tourists will start appearing in Glacier National Park in Montana. With cameras whirring like insect wings, they will jostle for a glimpse of Rocky Mountain peaks jutting into the sky, ridges cowering behind thick ice and meadows flashing with yellow lilies. But all is not well amid this splendid scenery: every …

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Hard at the top

Hard science fiction predominates in a very strong shortlist for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award. There are three near-future scenarios. Justina Robson's excellent debut, Silver Screen (Pan), is an exploration of artificial intelligence and the meaning of consciousness. Bruce Sterling's Distraction (Bantam) wittily details the machinations of a genetically altered political campaign manager in …

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Feedback

IF YOUR name is D'Arcy, don't visit asteroid 9491 Thooft. A few weeks ago, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a pair of asteroids in honour of two Dutch Nobel laureates, Gerard `t Hooft and Martin Veltman. The asteroids, which orbit between Mars and Jupiter, are now called 9491 Thooft and 9492 Veltman. Now `t …

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