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Foraging for nature’s balanced diet

Animals and human hunter-gatherers are amazingly adept at getting the food balance right. In the wild, a strategy that maximises energy in take works well

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Safeguarding Britain’s mother of invention: The British Technology Group, which markets bright ideas from academia, looks certain to be privatised. But many fear that without special protection, the new-look company will fail

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Physics

The Universe according to LEP

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Remembrance of things unconscious: Traditional ideas about memory are being challenged by the discovery that much of what we retrieve from memory may be hidden from conscious awareness

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Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may be survivors from a time when planets ricocheted around the Sun like ball bearings on a pinball table

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Speaking across the gender gap: Deborah Tannen, an American sociolinguist, thinks she has pinpointed what makes communication between the sexes so difficult

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Biological messages in a bottle: No business would be run the way a museum collection is. But that doesn’t mean that these unique repositories of biological information have outlived their usefulness

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Europe’s hot air over carbon cuts: Recent studies show that Europe could reach its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions – but is doing precious little to get there. We have the technology, but will we use it?

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Medicines from the rainforest

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Recreating the birth of the Universe: Theories of the fireball out of which the Universe was born may soon be tested in the laboratory by experiments which recreate the conditions of the big bang in with a series of ‘little bangs’

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Keeping the lid on nuclear arms:

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The mystery of motor neuron disease: For more than 50 years this disease has baffled epidemiologists and physicians alike. But the mysterious illness may be about to yield its secrets to molecular genetics

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‘Where does the genome project go from here?

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Humans

Losing the way of the Great Father

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