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Keeping the lid on nuclear arms:

Argentina and Brazil have renounced nuclear weapons. They are now devising a system of international inspection that could be a model for other countries still without the bomb

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The mystery of motor neuron disease: For more than 50 years this disease has baffled epidemiologists and physicians alike. But the mysterious illness may be about to yield its secrets to molecular genetics

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‘Where does the genome project go from here?

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Humans

Losing the way of the Great Father

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Mapping the cold glow of the big bang: NASA’s firstsatellite dedicated to cosmology is providing new insights into the earlyformation of the Universe with measurements of astonishing precision. Butthe results still give no clues as to how stars and galaxi

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Where earthworms fear to tread: A foreign flatworm that eats earthworms lurks in the soil of Europe. It isn’t a plague yet, but it could become one

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The successful alchemist

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Aluminium menace in tropical wells: The weathering that made the plains of Malawi is still at work, releasing aluminium into wells. But no one knows how widespread the contamination is

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New-wave mathematics: Seeing is believing – pictures from a mathematician

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New-wave mathematics

A new generation of mathematicians is rebelling against the ancient tradition of theorem and proof. New-wave mathematicians prefer to experiment with free thinking on a computer.

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Growing threats to peat: The use of peat for growing plants is a mainstay of British horticulture. But unless alternatives are found quickly, the country’s dwindling peat bogs could disappear altogether

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How refugees survive: As wars swell the ranks of the displaced in the developing world, relief agencies are asking themselves why they are still failing to meet people’s basic needs

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Europe’s ambitions lost in space: Tight budgets and conflicting interests are threatening the European Space Agency’s biggest projects. The agency has only a few months left to solve these earthly problems

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Why straight sex is not safe sex

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