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Embracing shale gas may help cut emissions

It's anathema to greens, but in his new book The Carbon Crunch economist Dieter Helm argues that shale gas may be what we need to get rid of coal

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Climate downgrade: Human emissions

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Climate downgrade: Human emissions

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Computers identify what makes abstract art move us

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Computers identify what makes abstract art move us

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Oppenheimer: the full story of a complex character

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The engineer who defeated the wind

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Who benefits from big biology projects?

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American dream of oil independence on horizon

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American dream of oil independence on horizon

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The true story of alchemy

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Humans

Will we ever understand how our brains work?

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What smells with its feet and pees with its head?

In Walking Sideways, biologist Judith Weis explores the bizarre world of crabs – including one so averse to water it throws its eggs off sea cliffs

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India's thorium-based nuclear dream inches closer

Analysis

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Orang-utans infected by mystery Ebola-like virus

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Will software revamp guard grid against cyberattack?

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A whistle-stop tour through science history

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