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Making water work:

The rivers that won't be tamed - An ambitious scheme costing billions of dollars to protect the cities and plains of Bangladesh from floods could be a disaster in the making.

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Making water work: Myth 1 – The Himalayan forest are everywhere being destroyed

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Making water work:

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The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: You can’t square a circle using a ruler and compass. But a pair of mathematical scissors will do the job by cutting the circle up into a huge but finite number of pieces

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Mountain building under the microscope

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Sixth-formers find their true vocation: Ministers are planning a big shake-up of post-16 education in Britain. After years of debate, there is to be a challenge to the academic ‘gold standard’ of A levels

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Computer maps guide the surgeon: Doctors are using three-dimensional images produced by computers to help them to perform difficult and delicate operations on the skull

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Humans

Sexual politics in the cell

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Frustration on the factory farm: Animals kept in close confinement pace their cages or bite their bars because of frustration, not boredom. Changes in housing can reduce the problem

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Euler and the Konigsberg bridges problem

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Cracking the secret of eggshells

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Making molecules by numbers: Assigning numbers to molecular structures allows us to predict the behaviour of a wide array of chemical substances. It also offers a new approach to the design of plastics, drugs and even tastier beer

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Intercepting the messengers of cosmic violence: Shuttle repairs permitting, NASA’s second great space observatory will be launched soon. It will search the Universe for gamma rays – generated by the most violent events in the cosmos

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Kingdoms in turmoil

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