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Britain shifts position on Antarctica

Naval architects wrangle over cracked carriers

Hot summer comes up to scratch

The risks of ferry travel

The year the taps ran dry: Britain's sweltering summer ismore than a repeat of the freak weather of 1976. This year's heat wave ispart of a drought that is afflicting most countries in Europe

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Technology: Cracks begin to show in modern tanker design

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Technology: Fibres down the tube

Science carries the can for Maguire Seven convictions

Will taxonomy go the way of the dinosaurs?: Plans to drop research in some areas of science at the Natural History Museum in London have led to protests from scientists across the world

. . . as dry spell saps British soil

Museum spells out job losses

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Technology: Traffic lights learn to go with the flow