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Radio sans frontieres: By the mid 1990s, people driving across Europe should be able to tune into their favourite radio programmes in hi-fi wherever they are

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Dating the first American: When did people first enter the New World? Clues from distinctive rock art may push the date back by thousands of years

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The quarks that fell to Earth: A form of matter predicted bytheory has never yet been produced in particle accelerators. Does ‘strangematter’ really fall to Earth from deep space?

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Life

A very cultured chimpanzee

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Greens and science – a doomed affair?: Environmentalists have turned to science to give weight to their campaigns to save the planet. But science can prove an unreliable ally

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Engineers move in on the Mekong: Three decades of war in Southeast Asia have stopped exploitation of the Mekong river. Now the waterway may be plugged by a series of large hydroelectric dams. Will dams secure the peace or exacerbate local tensions?

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When soil cooled the world

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The chip with a sting in its tail: If Britain’s Ministry of Defence wants to commercialise its research, why did it let one small company working on a pioneering chip go to the wall?

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And the walls came tumbling down: Old Testament writings ofdoom and destruction are now providing researchers with a record ofearthquakes spanning 4000 years

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Knocking on wood for a mate

The deathwatch beetle's reputation is misplaced. The sinister tapping in ancient timbers turns out to be a form of sexual communication

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Vietnam on the technology trail: Computer science, biotechnology and chemistry are all flourishing as Vietnam opens its markets and laboratories to the West

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Humans

Is meditation good for you?

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Great balls of carbon: Why have chemists become so excitedabout simple soot? Because it contains an exotic family of carbon moleculeswhose ball-shaped structure heralds a new branch of chemistry

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When sleeping giants wake

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