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Wicked weather

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Sick to death

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Health

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Signal boost?

THE BBC last week took the first steps towards preventing its World Service radio broadcasts being jammed or switched off by governments or rebels that don't like its message. The corporation has signed up to a digital satellite radio service called WorldSpace, which will deliver a hard-to-jam signal from space to a new generation of …

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Cholera gives up its secrets

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Painful start

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Stiff joints

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The worm turns

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Crystal solution

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Fractal music

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Sink or swim

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Technology

Virtual boffins

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Tumour destroyers

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Homes wanted

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They won't work…

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French fusion

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Breath test

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Chew on this

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All consuming faith

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Viral orgy

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Could sticky stucco quash quake damage?

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Hold your breath

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Utterly cool pants

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Doubling up

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Earth

Something in the air

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Phone more than home

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Plants to the rescue

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Life

That nesting instinct

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Flexible beamers

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Mixed origins

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Proof at last

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Molecular movies

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Technology

Tunnel vision

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Technology

Drug sniffer

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Technology

It's a gas, gas, gas

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Green light for son of Sojourner

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Lethal debris

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Stick a label on it

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Welcome home

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Comets crumble

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Dry floods on Mars

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Masters of disguise

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Opinion

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Beware smoking nuclear waste

AUSTRALIANS think nuclear waste is a bigger health risk than motor vehicle accidents, according to a research report released last month by the enHealth Council, an advisory body to the Federal government on issues of environmental health. More than 20 000 people died on Australian roads in the past decade, and a further quarter of …

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Humans

Westminster Diary

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Seeds of hope

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Lest we forget

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The survivor

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Fat chance

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Don't bet your shirt on life

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Blast it

WHACKING high explosives with a hammer is not the safest occupation in the world. Yet for Dana Dlott it's all in a day's work. He and his team routinely pummel explosives and other materials hundreds of times every second. But Dlott doesn't plan to cash in his life insurance just yet, because these experiments are …

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Wicked weather

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Sick to death

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Health

The obesity bug

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Cancer research

New advances in technology mean that cancer research is now a broad church, covering basic cell and molecular biology and pathology, but also going off into epidemiology, structural biology and immunology. Scientists want to understand what goes wrong in the basic processes that underpin cancer, from cell proliferation and cell death to how cells become …

Careers

Ben's feasts

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It's in the can

Books & Arts

Nature's revenge

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Dive in

Books & Arts

Sniffling rats

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Green fingers

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Feedback

THEY DRINK an awful lot of coffee in Seattle—so much so that an investigation into local water pollution has literally gone down the drain. Water quality researchers had planned to use caffeine—which doesn't occur naturally in water but gets into sewage through people's urine—as a tracer to determine where treated sewage flows when it enters …

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