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How science fails the environment

If politicians don't like uncertainties and scientists often conceal them, how can we make policies that deal with the vagaries of the world around us?

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I spy with my infrared eye: Satellite images are helping volcanologists with the tricky business of predicting when and where a volcano will erupt

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Technology

The longbow’s deadly secrets

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Taking a short cut to drug design: What makes one molecule behave like another? Drugs companies are using a new approach to find answers that will save them time and money

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Big Blue and the silver screen: When IBM scientists agreed to meet the moguls from Hollywood, they hoped their new computer system would pull them back from the financial abyss

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Genes from a disappearing world: A major international project to collect DNA fingerprints from the ethnic groups on the verge of extinction has touched off a heated debate about genetics, race and human welfare

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The mountain that fell to earth: Forty years ago, climbing Everest was the pinnacle of achievement. But better equipment and medical understandingmean far more people can now reach its summit

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Anyone for cheap diamond film?: Should a revolutionary way of coating materials with diamond be cold-shouldered until it establishes its scientific credentials? Industrialists are beginning to think not

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Why genes have a gender: Without knowing it, parents stamp their authority on the DNA of their children. The result is a battle of the sexes played out by chromosomes and genes

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Space

Magellan’s last mission

After a nail-biting start, the spacecraft Magellan has given us a spectacular picture of Venus. Now the ageing craft is preparing for a fitting finale

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The white heat of laser dentistry: Dentists in the US are not allowed to use lasers to drill their patients’ teeth. But in Britain they are, even though researchers are still evaluating the technique

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Careers: Come on in, the salary’s lovely – Technical skills continue to attract the highest salaries in the industrial sector

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Careers: Why graduates won’t wear science – A strong science and engineering base is vital to a strong economy. But many graduates with the right degrees shun their chosen subject. Â鶹´«Ã½ spoke to some and asked where the fault lies – with them, w

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The Universe through gamma ray eyes: Some of the Universe’s most vital statistics can only be discovered by decoding cosmic gamma rays – an enormous job for NASA’s giant space observatory

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