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Sounding the bottom of the world

Why go to one of the world's most inhospitable spots to study the Earth's crust? Antarctica's frozen mountains have preserved rocks lost in kinder climes

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Fresh water from the sea: The Gulf War focused the world’s attention on the importance of making salty water drinkable. Growing pressure on water supplies could revitalise research into desalination techniques

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A man for all habitats: David Attenborough, this year’s president of the British Association, is one of the most important and gifted science popularisers of our day

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The search for the missing elements

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Foraging for nature’s balanced diet

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Safeguarding Britain’s mother of invention: The British Technology Group, which markets bright ideas from academia, looks certain to be privatised. But many fear that without special protection, the new-look company will fail

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Physics

The Universe according to LEP

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Remembrance of things unconscious: Traditional ideas about memory are being challenged by the discovery that much of what we retrieve from memory may be hidden from conscious awareness

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Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may be survivors from a time when planets ricocheted around the Sun like ball bearings on a pinball table

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Speaking across the gender gap: Deborah Tannen, an American sociolinguist, thinks she has pinpointed what makes communication between the sexes so difficult

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Biological messages in a bottle: No business would be run the way a museum collection is. But that doesn’t mean that these unique repositories of biological information have outlived their usefulness

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Europe’s hot air over carbon cuts: Recent studies show that Europe could reach its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions – but is doing precious little to get there. We have the technology, but will we use it?

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Medicines from the rainforest

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Recreating the birth of the Universe: Theories of the fireball out of which the Universe was born may soon be tested in the laboratory by experiments which recreate the conditions of the big bang in with a series of ‘little bangs’

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