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What's love got to do with it?

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Fatal flaw

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Up in smoke

Brush fires in Western Australia have raised air pollution in the outback to ten times its normal level. The plume of smoke can be seen in satellite images and was confirmed by the observatory at Lake Argyle in Western Australia. Researchers think heavy rain last summer caused rapid plant growth in areas that are often …

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Schizophrenia gene

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Now Jupiter's got a great white spot

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Caspian catastrophe

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Full-fat milk

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Stretching it

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Wonder cuppa

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Secret histories

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Battle stations

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Cut and paste

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Nano lenses

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Why spiders shouldn't jump out of planes

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Only the best

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Finding your way back home

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Real softies

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Wet windows wash away filthy heating bills

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Final battle

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Clever leg

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Read it here first

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Sock it to your pocket

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Indelible evidence

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La folie française

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Crisis time for Europe's ravaged forests

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Fatal flaw

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Bye-bye Parc?

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Shark deaths

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A kinder cut

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Heat from the depths

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Darwin strikes back

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Sunshine watch

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Keep that laptop

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Robot muscle

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Short-lived victory

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The next revolution

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Make them safe

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Don't buy this

WOULD you want to see Prozac advertised routinely in Britain's newspapers, magazines or on TV? For more than two years, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has been pushing to change the law to allow "direct-to-consumer advertising". In other words, marketing to the public what are currently prescription-only medicines. And with scarcely a …

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Seconds out, round two

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Radio days

In the league table of unsung heroes of science, Stanley Hey, who died earlier this year, must rank near the top. Little known to the outside world-or even to today's astronomers-this unassuming physicist made the next three important discoveries in radio astronomy after the initial detection of cosmic radio waves. His story begins in the …

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Alive it's

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What's love got to do with it?

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Just drugs

Drugs, poisons and the contents of your doctor's bag: they're all the same brew. John Mann's wonderfully readable Murder, Magic and Medicine, now out in a revised edition, tracks the substances from shaman to pharmacy, and poisoned arrow to junkie's hypodermic. Published by Oxford University Press, £9.99, ISBN 0198507445.

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Feedback

SEX , as everyone knows, can be quite a complicated matter for us humans. But the uncertain and confused among us can at least take comfort that we are not Diaprepes abbreviatus beetles. Feedback's attention has been drawn to a study conducted last year for the US Department of Agriculture Research Service in Florida by …

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