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Robo Roach is born

Japanese scientists are wiring up creepy crawlies so that they can control them with electronic commands. But who wants a remote-controlled cockroach, asks Peter Hadfield

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Who’s suffering now? – Does an animal dread being chased by a predator? Not necessarily, say two British biologists, because they are only doing what comes naturally. Gail Vines reports

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Going with the flow – It was a bright summer’s day in 1988 when a man cycling beside a river was struck by a Big Idea. Marcus Chown reports

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Lightning Speed

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Physics

Wake up to quantum coffee

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All life is here – Small, stagnant pools teeming with wriggling larvae are helping to unravel some of the great questions of ecology. Stephen Young investigates

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It takes two

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The secret is in the fridge

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How right can you be?

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Glass pharmacy – Preserved in minute beads of sugar, drugs could last for years and be easier to take, too. Ben Crystall investigates

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Electric shockers

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Beach buggies on Mars – They may look like metal shoeboxes on wheels, but the rovers going through their paces on a Californian beach are the great hope of Martian exploration says Scott Lafee

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Earth

Noises off

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Devilish tricks with tiny chips – To pin down the identity of a killer microbe with breathtaking speed, researchers around the world are shrinking their labs to the size of a silicon chip. Mark Ward reports on a revolution in miniature

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