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Alien Abduction: The Inside Story

Thousands of Americans believe they have had a close encounter of the alien kind; what on Earth is going on...

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Is it a cow? Is it a bird?: The chick looks like a baby punk. It grows into something resembling a cross between a turkey and a pheasant, and reeks of manure

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Genetic testings is becoming the parents’ dilemma

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Greener way to solar power

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Look to the insect …: For years, insect-like robots were graceless shufflers, easily outclassed by the common cockroach. Big changes are afoot

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Einstein’s Elusive Ripples: Years of scouring the Universe for Einstein’s gravitational waves have proved fruitless. But now cosmologists think they may have found telltale signs in the microwave background radiation

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The SHIP that launched a thousand grids

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It’s a Dog’s Life: Most of the 500 dog breeds round the world are affected by at least one genetic disease; how DNA mapping might help

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Ten years after the famine

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Mining the heart of a continent

The scale is staggering, the toil unrelenting and the lifestyle legendary. Exploiting Australia's rich but remote ore reserves calls for sophisticated technology, complex logistics and hard-nosed commercial drive

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Rebel with a cause

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Mystery of the missing mammals: Why has the arid outback of central Australia lost more mammals in modern times than any other place on Earth?

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How to burn a wilderness: No one can imagine Australia’s great wildernesses

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Receiving you loud & clear …: Not so long ago, the best way to get a phone line in the outback was by stripping some iron wire from the nearest fence. Now even remote sheep stations have entered the information age

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