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Mercury – the impossible planet?: By all accounts, the planet nearest the Sun is the wrong size and in the wrong place. Only a mission to Mercury can resolve the puzzle it poses

Microscopes with proton power

Wells of conflict on the West Bank: For thousands of years, the land that is now Israel has been short of water. Today, this shortage has become a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East

How plants fight back

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News

. . . but longer view threatened by lack of support

Chernobyl findings ‘excessively optimistic’ . . .

Anti-tick vaccines promise reduced costs for cattle farmers

Concern grows over toxic threats to Australia’s seas

Hong Kong backs off bid to cut smoking

Sweeping carbon dioxide under the ground

Shuttle launch ‘could have faced disaster’

Science: Placental clues to HIV spread in pregnancy

Science: Have early black holes left lingering traces?

Science: Synthetic success for yew tree ‘anti-cancer’ drug

Science: Ice age bacteria return from the dead

Science: ‘Heat pump’ drives oxygen supplies down to water-lily roots

Technology

Technology: Polymer cube offers data storage in three dimensions

Technology

Technology: Eye implant promises ‘reversible’ surgery

Technology

Technology: Panoramic lens focuses on the great indoors . . .

Technology

Technology: . . . as dieters find camera they can’t lie to

Opinion

Comment: Brussels misses the picture

Comment: Controlling dogs – by numbers

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Features

Mercury – the impossible planet?: By all accounts, the planet nearest the Sun is the wrong size and in the wrong place. Only a mission to Mercury can resolve the puzzle it poses

Microscopes with proton power

Wells of conflict on the West Bank: For thousands of years, the land that is now Israel has been short of water. Today, this shortage has become a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East

How plants fight back

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Talking Point: Testing time for science on our screens

Review: Religion’s private hold on Faraday

Review: Science’s debt to industry

Review: Revive your interest in biology

Review: Naming names in the celestial zoo

Review: Policies for a clean future

Forum: Who wants to drive a Porsch? – 杏吧原创s don’t come that cheap, says Steve Ellison

Forum: The capsules that time forgot – Brian Durrans reflects on messages buried for future generations

Forum: Is the pen now mightier than the Pill? – Pratap Chatterjee meets a man seduced by nonscientific publishing

Thistle Diary: Missing the interdisciplinary point – Comment from Westminster

Forum: It’s a pity about the panda

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