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A drop in the ocean – Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports

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An inside story

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The heat is on 鈥� As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants’ noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate

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Dining at the Shuteye Caf茅 – When it comes to sleep, are we gluttons, anorexics or fast-food junkies?

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Get real, Siggi – Freud would have been furious – hard-nosed pragmatists are invading the fabulous dream industry he founded

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Noises from the cellar – Messages from the gods or the devil. Full of phallic symbols or even darker objects. Dream interpretation has filled countless tomes, but only a few researchers have looked at the brain processes that create them

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Night moves 鈥� Sleep feels like a single state of mind that should have a single, simple

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Sweet delirium – Thousands of people are queuing up for a sleepless night, racked by fever. Why?

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Calling all Insomniacs… – …beaming radio waves into your head might just help

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Crossing the quantum frontier

There is a mysterious boundary between the familiar predictability of ordinary objects and the spooky uncertainties of the quantum world. Now physicists are on the verge of discovering what happens there, says Mark Buch

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The famine fungus – Potatoes could feed a billion people, yet the return of an old enemy would turn plenty into disaster. Fred Pearce reports

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a game of three robots

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Click on the candidate – In the age of the Net there has to be a better way to run a ballot than putting a cross on a slip of paper, says Alison Motluk

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Flight over Wall St

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