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SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Innocent-looking piles of seeds, sand or powder are liable to drive grown men and women to tears—or even to the extreme edges of theoretical physics. David Kestenbaum explains why

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Beyond space and time

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Dam busting

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Computing the uncomputable

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One set fits all

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Our flexible friend

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Colossal adventures

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Who killed Frank Olson?

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Pay attention Rover

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Where did you get your brains? – Baby mice may inherit their mother’s wits and their father’s basicinstincts, but what does this mean for us, asks Gail Vines

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A drop in the ocean – Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports

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An inside story

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The heat is on – As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants’ noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate

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Dining at the Shuteye Caf̩ РWhen it comes to sleep, are we gluttons, anorexics or fast-food junkies?

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