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Happy birthday, Supernova 1987A: Five years ago next week, astronomers saw a brilliant star explode. The supernova has now faded, but its expanding debris is likely to trigger more interstellar fireworks

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The hidden cost of Canada’s cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?

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South Africa’s other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region’s prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs

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Humans

How the wild beasts were tamed

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Splitting images: sex and science – Sexual stereotypes are hard to change. It may be because the notion of polarity has bitten deep into our culture

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Beating the uncertainty principle: Experiments with interfering atoms designed to test wave-particle duality are helping physicists to understand the bizarre side of quantum theory

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A premier league for university research?: Changes in the way the government allocates money to universities will benefit a chosen few but could put a stop to research in many departments

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An object lesson in programming: Computers control our lives but no-one can guarantee that their programs are free of errors. The risks can be reduced by writing software in a way that more closely reflects real life

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The networks of botanical creation: Why is it so hard to construct trees of descent for some groups or organisms, such as flowering plants? Perhaps it is because members of these groups have swapped genes during formative periods of their history

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Born captive, die free

Barn owls are on the decline in Britain. Why not breed birds in captivity and release them into the wild? It sounds a great idea 鈥� but it is a waste of effort

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Fuzzy logic goes to market

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Can Europe save its eastern promise?: Science is essential for the repair of the shattered economies of eastern Europe. But research in these countries is dying

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Earth

Secrets of a tropical ice age

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Good morning, Mr . . . er: Why do we recognise a face, but sometimes draw a blank when it comes to the name? The answer may lie in how the brain sorts and encodes information about people

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