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Learn to live with lightning: Lightning can damage your health – If you understand how thunderstorms work, however, you stand a better chance of surviving the threat from Thor and his thunderbolts

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Molecules caught in the act: Fleeting bursts of laser light, a 100 million-millionth of a second long, provide instant snapshots of chemical reactions – They reveal in intimate detail the last moments of a molecule

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All satellites cheap and small: Most modern satellites cost tens of millions of pounds, but going into space can cost less if scientists are prepared to think small and build ‘smallsats’

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The end of the ice ages?

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Sperm you can count on

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Hopping mice do it differently: Mice with minute testes, misshapen sperm and thin, spiny penises may shed light on what makes most males the way they are

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The discreet charm of the particle factory

To complement their traditional exploration of the high-energy frontier, particle physicists in the next decade will turn to a new breed of accelerator to mass-produce particles, such as the tau lepton and the

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Taiwan tackles its past: Copying others has made Taiwan rich – Now it wants to establish its own identity

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Farming’s organic future: Once dismissed as cranks, organic farmers are gaining credibility

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Britain’s unchecked plague of aphids: Aphids are filling fields and gardens around the country this summer – But the government wants to pull the wings off the national insect survey

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Anything for a quiet life?: Valium, Librium and Mogadon onceseemed to provide the perfect answer to stress. We now know how this groupof drugs alters the chemistry of the brain; no wonder they create moreproblems than they solve

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Learn to live with lightning: Lightning can damage your health – If you understand how thunderstorms work, however, you stand a better chance of surviving the threat from Thor and his thunderbolts

The exclusive life of the slipper orchid

Great pests have little pests upon their back to bite ’em

Cassava crops up again

Molecules caught in the act: Fleeting bursts of laser light, a 100 million-millionth of a second long, provide instant snapshots of chemical reactions – They reveal in intimate detail the last moments of a molecule

All satellites cheap and small: Most modern satellites cost tens of millions of pounds, but going into space can cost less if scientists are prepared to think small and build ‘smallsats’

Earth

The end of the ice ages?

Environment

Sperm you can count on

Hopping mice do it differently: Mice with minute testes, misshapen sperm and thin, spiny penises may shed light on what makes most males the way they are

The discreet charm of the particle factory

Taiwan tackles its past: Copying others has made Taiwan rich – Now it wants to establish its own identity

Farming’s organic future: Once dismissed as cranks, organic farmers are gaining credibility

Britain’s unchecked plague of aphids: Aphids are filling fields and gardens around the country this summer – But the government wants to pull the wings off the national insect survey

Anything for a quiet life?: Valium, Librium and Mogadon onceseemed to provide the perfect answer to stress. We now know how this groupof drugs alters the chemistry of the brain; no wonder they create moreproblems than they solve