A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix. Should the credit go to him or to his car?
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Smart ways to treat materials: Will artificial materials ever be smart enough to respond as if they were part of a living organism? It could mean tissue healing more quickly and aircraft flying more safely
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Fickle constants of physics: Fundamental constants turn up in all sorts of equations. There may be nothing fundamental about them at all, and science may not need them
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Faithless female seeks better genes
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Last Olympics for the sex test?
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News
World’s inventors to get common rights?
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Cut lines led to phantom calls
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Hidden hazards at the hairdresser
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How card forgers withdraw cash on demand
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It’s official: there is a brain drain
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Visitors flock to threatened zoo
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Embryo body calls for counselling
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Key nations defy whaling commission
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Darwin Initiative proves slow to evolve
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Safer sex
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Murderous experiments of Stalin’s police chief
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Tide turns for gravity waves
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Biodiversity Convention a ‘lousy deal’, says US
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University on trial for rigging prices
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Astronauts need daily dose of gravity
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French pharmacists fight for right to sell vitamin C
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Some of our alcohol is missing
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Brussels faces German invasion
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Avoiding diabetes
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Abortion agreed
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AIDS drug approved
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Reactor stays shut
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Green forces
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The sound of Monica’s greatist hits
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Ripa goes home
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Bull bailed out
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Select science
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Focus: Today we will design a hamburger – In technology classes children are taught the principles of cookery and design. But they are missing out on practical skills
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Science: Nautilus take slow lane to survival
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Science: Action replay revives wasted muscle
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Science: Light slows gases’ giddy whirl into a black hole
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Science: Runaway star formation drives primeval galaxy
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Science: Is there a ‘successful’ immune response to HIV?
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Science: Stocky rhinos confound the zoologists
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Science: Mutant enzymes quicken the pace of chemical reactions
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Technology
Technology: Surveillance device slips through the net
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Technology
Technology: Athletes sleep their way to the top
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Technology
Technology: Pressure-cooked wood is a square deal
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Technology
Technology: Oven test adds glow to irradiated food
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Technology
Technology: Sound idea for music lovers
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Technology
Technology: Robot eye follows surgeon’s every move
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Technology
Technology: Arty accelerator tackles Louvre’s flinty problems
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Opinion
Features
A winning formula for Mansell: On Sunday, Nigel Mansell is expected to win the French Grand Prix. Should the credit go to him or to his car?
Features
Smart ways to treat materials: Will artificial materials ever be smart enough to respond as if they were part of a living organism? It could mean tissue healing more quickly and aircraft flying more safely
Features
Fickle constants of physics: Fundamental constants turn up in all sorts of equations. There may be nothing fundamental about them at all, and science may not need them
Features
Faithless female seeks better genes
Features
Last Olympics for the sex test?
Features
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