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Beta blockers are busted – what happens next?

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Beta blockers are busted – what happens next?

They have treated heart disease for 40 years, but it now seems that beta blockers don't work. Josh Bloom explains what went wrong

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UK gardeners must take some blame for ash dieback

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UK gardeners must take some blame for ash dieback

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Science and religion do not have to be at loggerheads

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Science and religion do not have to be at loggerheads

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Obama is still the best hope for science in the US

Obama is still the best hope for science in the US

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Gay 'cures' don't work but banning them helps nobody

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Gay 'cures' don't work but banning them helps nobody

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Wake up to the death toll from killer landslides

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Wake up to the death toll from killer landslides

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Sports cheats will always keep their nose in front

Life

Sports cheats will always keep their nose in front

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Endangered animals caught in the tourist trap

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Endangered animals caught in the tourist trap

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The sickening truth about wind farm syndrome

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The sickening truth about wind farm syndrome

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The US presidential election is no contest

The US presidential election is no contest

Don't believe the US presidential opinion polls. Barring a political earthquake, Barack Obama will be re-elected at a canter, says Jim Giles

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Animals are conscious and should be treated as such

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Will New York's super-size drink ban work?

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Health

Is medical science built on shaky foundations?

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Health

A genetic blueprint of your unborn baby

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