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Cracking the secret of eggshells

Egg-shaped and delicious, traditional Easter gifts need little research. But biologists and engineers are still trying to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the real thing

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Making molecules by numbers: Assigning numbers to molecular structures allows us to predict the behaviour of a wide array of chemical substances. It also offers a new approach to the design of plastics, drugs and even tastier beer

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Intercepting the messengers of cosmic violence: Shuttle repairs permitting, NASA’s second great space observatory will be launched soon. It will search the Universe for gamma rays – generated by the most violent events in the cosmos

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Kingdoms in turmoil

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The benefits of a good school: When it comes to schooling, invertebrates such as shrimps and squids do it like fish, and probably for the same reasons

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Cars come to the end of the road: This week British transport researchers reached a new consensus. They agreed that the car’s domination of transport policy must end

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Africa at a watershed: Africa is a parched continent. Three decades of grand plans to water its fields and fill its taps have failed. What next? Some experts say that water from equatorial Zaire could make the Sahel bloom. Others want to abandon such eng

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Godmanchester’s temple of the Sun: Archaeologists diggingaway amid the gravel pits of Cambridgeshire have discovered what appearstobe ancient Europe’s most sophisticated astronomical computer

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The battle to stop the Gulf from choking

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How plankton change the climate: Plankton affect our planet far more then their-size suggests. Their role in the carbon cycle pushed the world into ice ages and could control how fast our climate changes in the future

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Quasar jets and cosmic engines

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Europe plans for cleaner water: Next week European environment ministers meet in Brussels to discuss a proposal to reduce the pollution of the community’s waterways. The water industry is already working out how to cope

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A quick fix for Hubble?: The Hubble Space Telescope has blurred vision, and shakes so much that it has difficulty pointing in the right direction. NASA must now decide what to repair, when to do it and how

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Trials and tribulations of a malaria vaccine

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