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Greener way to solar power

Chemists are making molecules that can harvest solar energy as plants do. It is one step on the road to molecular devices that run on light

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Look to the insect …: For years, insect-like robots were graceless shufflers, easily outclassed by the common cockroach. Big changes are afoot

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Einstein’s Elusive Ripples: Years of scouring the Universe for Einstein’s gravitational waves have proved fruitless. But now cosmologists think they may have found telltale signs in the microwave background radiation

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The SHIP that launched a thousand grids

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It’s a Dog’s Life: Most of the 500 dog breeds round the world are affected by at least one genetic disease; how DNA mapping might help

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Ten years after the famine

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Mining the heart of a continent

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Rebel with a cause

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Mystery of the missing mammals: Why has the arid outback of central Australia lost more mammals in modern times than any other place on Earth?

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How to burn a wilderness: No one can imagine Australia’s great wildernesses

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Receiving you loud & clear …: Not so long ago, the best way to get a phone line in the outback was by stripping some iron wire from the nearest fence. Now even remote sheep stations have entered the information age

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Not Another Whingeing Pom …

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The Other Australia

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Up, Up and away to the beginning of time: Balloons that float to the very edge of the atmosphere are giving astronomers the most detailed view yet of the radiation echoing down from the earliest years of the Universe

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