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Lithium: The hole in the big bang theory
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Life
Olympics drug cheats may go undetected
The test for detecting an illegal blood-boosting chemical has been found to be unreliable in the run up to the Beijing games
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Earth
Land purchase is big, wet boost for Florida Everglades
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Life
Sex offenders unlikely to commit second crime
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Earth
Can cow hormone help battle climate change?
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Space
Solar sail gets another chance for launch
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Earth
List reveals countries failing on climate change
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Earth
Wind power sails ahead in UK as US solar plans freeze
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Health
Should researchers tell over bad news brain scans?
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Earth
TV boom may boost greenhouse effect
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Earth
Lack of cracks may explain Peru meteorite mystery
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Space
Cosmic blasts may throw out plasma ‘cannonballs’
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Soundbites
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Humans
Did ‘burrowing’ placenta give us big brains?
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Health
Youthful ‘nurse’ cells could restore male fertility
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Health
Diet-sized snack packs turn off willpower
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Life
Shaking up the bird family tree
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Humans
Disgust comes in three revolting flavours
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Life
The universal language of charades
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Space
Fresh puzzle over dark energy supernovae
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Earth
Blanket effect flips Earth’s insides
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Earth
Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming
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Life
Secret sleep of birds revealed in brain scans
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Health
DNA-chopping molecule makes cells resistant to HIV
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Health
Common drugs may combat ageing disease
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Earth
Cane toads kill off river crocodiles
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Technology
Smart camera keeps an eye on endangered penguins
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Technology
Synchronising ‘heartbeat’ saves sensor batteries
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Technology
Satnavs stop criminal trail turning cold
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Technology
Gizmo
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Technology
Global treaty promises hard times for file sharers
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Technology
3D modelling gets the measure of stone axes
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Technology
To silence a gene, join the quantum dots
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Opinion
Editorial: Dilemmas posed by chance research results
What should researchers do when they discover unlooked-for information that has serious implications for a subject's health?
Opinion
Technology
Lab-grown meat could ease food shortage
Opinion
Humans
The language detective
Opinion
Commentary: How Einstein kept it simple
Opinion
Features
Physics
Lithium: The hole in the big bang theory
What really happened in the first few minutes after the big bang? One element could hold the answer, says Matthew Chalmers
Features
Earth
Nature 2.0: Redefining conservation
Features
Health
Me and my genome
Features
Earth
Cold war ‘caterpillar drive’ could harvest sea power
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Physics
The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
An account of one of 20th-century physics's biggest battles provides a vivid human portrait of two intellectual heavyweights, says Amanda Gefter
Books & Arts
Review: The End of Food by Paul Roberts and Eat Your Heart Out by Felicity Lawrence
Books & Arts
Environment
Exhibition: Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Books & Arts
Review: Relativity: A Very Short Introduction by Russell Stannard
Books & Arts
Review: Cosmic Anger by Gordon Fraser
Books & Arts
Review: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology edited by Oren Harman and Michael R Dietrich
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