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Prudent planning for a warmer planet

Why should we do anything about global warming? Measures to combat it will be both costly and expensive. But action taken now, even if only as an insurance policy, will bring a host of other environmental and economic benefits

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Molecules waiting to be made: Modern chemistry, like modern architecture, deals with structures whose design is constrained by natural forces, as well as depending on their eventual use. Drawing blueprints for new molecules not only provides chemists wi

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Africa’s growing AIDS crisis: Even when the West manages to develop a vaccine against HIV, poverty could prevent an effective attack on AIDS in Africa. Few Western scientists have shown interest in the problem

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The Asian connection: Where did we evolve? Recently discovered fossils suggest that our origins may have been in Asia, not Africa. But the debate still rages

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Human error in the air: The report on the M1 plane crash at Kegworth last year underlines the importance of the ‘human factor’ for safety

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Scratching the surface of evolution

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Tracking down the noise polluters: A chanting football crowd seems deafening but the sound energy it generates is barely enough to fry an egg. Modern technology and tougher legislation have encouraged engineers to confront the problems of measuring sound

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One gene may not make a man: Earlier this year, geneticists claimed to have found a gene on the Y chromosome that conveys ‘maleness’ on a developing embryo. But is it really so simple?

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High and dry in the global greenhouse

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The sea snakes are coming:c Will global warming bring the world’s most poisonous snakes to Britain’s shores? Zoologists have just begun to understand how they survive in the open sea

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Trade deals a blow to the environment: International rules governing trade aim to stamp out protectionism, but they may destroy Third World attempts to protect the environment and achieve sustainable development

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The power behind the Sun: It is 70 years since the pioneering astrophysicist Arthur Eddington told the scientific world that the source of power that keeps the Sun hot must be subatomic energy

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Designer eyes for seabirds of the night: How does a Manx shearwater find its burrow in pitch darkness and find its way across vast ocean wastes? It helps to have eyes like nothing else on Earth

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Underwater, out of mind: Freshwater fish worldwide are among the most endangered of all animals. But there are so many kinds and huge gaps in basic knowledge about them

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