The thick black line: How have the technologies to stop or get rid of oil slicks developed since the first big disasters in the 1960s?
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Humans
Breaking Chomsky’s rules
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The unbeatable lightness of aerogels: Take 10 parts of metal oxide, 90 parts of air, mix well – and watch industry fall upon the product with glee
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How to grow a green economy: As the planet teeters towards environmental catastrophe, the old certainties about how to measure the health of an ecvonomy are being undermined
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Lessons from the dead
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Table of contents
News
An active life makes a better brain
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Old wives’ tales ‘as good as sperm sorting’
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. . . as companies fail the innovation test
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British industry cuts research to the bone. . .
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Head of WHO returns despite Western opposition
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‘Cheap’ patent court fails inventor
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Money man takes charge in Germany
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Shetlanders roll out the straw carpet
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Is drug cocktail killing psychiatric patients?
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USS Waxahachie
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Russia’s far north opened up for the West
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Northern lights illuminated by radar
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Anti-AIDS scheme jeopardised as police move in
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Rail routes for dangerous cargos
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HIV ‘affects one in seven’ in Zimbabwe
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Mad kudus
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Polishing up a plesiosaur
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Fetal funding
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Driving by design
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Sudan epidemic
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Cancer vaccine
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Waste warning
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Mudlarks’ marks
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What turns an oil spill into a disaster?: With tens of thousands of tonnes of crude oil still washing round the coast of Shetland, is an ecological disaster inevitable?
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Science: Predators prefer prey with parasites
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Science: Dark matter in our own backyard
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Science: Role-swapping makes monkeys of macaques
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Science: Baby red dwarf screams across the radio bands
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Science: Sugar runs rings around rampant white blood cells
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Science: Demise of the fourth neutrino
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Science: Hopes fade in hunt for Planet X
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Technology
Technology: Logging in to the lost continent
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Technology
Technology: Spymasters fear bug-proof cellphones
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Technology
Technology: Gut power fuels cheaper coal oil
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Technology
Technology: French fight over role of radar in airline safety
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Technology
Technology: Molecule’s one-way route to electronics
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Technology
Technology: A quantum leap in secret communications
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Patents: Good for business?
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Patents: Safer for fish
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Patents: Drawing out enthusiasm
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Patents: Followed by phones
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Patents: On the button
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Patents: Kindly light
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Patents: Patents information
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Opinion
Features
The thick black line: How have the technologies to stop or get rid of oil slicks developed since the first big disasters in the 1960s?
Features
Humans
Breaking Chomsky’s rules
Features
The unbeatable lightness of aerogels: Take 10 parts of metal oxide, 90 parts of air, mix well – and watch industry fall upon the product with glee
Features
How to grow a green economy: As the planet teeters towards environmental catastrophe, the old certainties about how to measure the health of an ecvonomy are being undermined
Features
Lessons from the dead
Features
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Review: In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Books & Arts
Review: Watery doom
Books & Arts
Review: Return to the red planet
Books & Arts
Review: Duty-free marine life
Books & Arts
Review: All lit up
Books & Arts
