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The benefits of a good school: When it comes to schooling, invertebrates such as shrimps and squids do it like fish, and probably for the same reasons

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Cars come to the end of the road: This week British transport researchers reached a new consensus. They agreed that the car’s domination of transport policy must end

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Africa at a watershed: Africa is a parched continent. Three decades of grand plans to water its fields and fill its taps have failed. What next? Some experts say that water from equatorial Zaire could make the Sahel bloom. Others want to abandon such eng

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Godmanchester’s temple of the Sun: Archaeologists diggingaway amid the gravel pits of Cambridgeshire have discovered what appearstobe ancient Europe’s most sophisticated astronomical computer

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The battle to stop the Gulf from choking

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How plankton change the climate: Plankton affect our planet far more then their-size suggests. Their role in the carbon cycle pushed the world into ice ages and could control how fast our climate changes in the future

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Quasar jets and cosmic engines

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Europe plans for cleaner water: Next week European environment ministers meet in Brussels to discuss a proposal to reduce the pollution of the community’s waterways. The water industry is already working out how to cope

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A quick fix for Hubble?: The Hubble Space Telescope has blurred vision, and shakes so much that it has difficulty pointing in the right direction. NASA must now decide what to repair, when to do it and how

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Trials and tribulations of a malaria vaccine

One of the most hopeful candidates for a malaria vaccine emerged from an area where the disease is endemic. Its results have raised expectations and scientific controversy

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The house that came in from the cold

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A war of nerves: Doctors once thought that soldiers suffering from shell shock were simply malingering to escape the battlefield. A century studded with wars has given the medical profession ample opportunity to realise its mistake.

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Will marine life survive the Gulf War?

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Dark doubts for cosmology: The so-called cold dark matter theory of cosmology unites particle physics, cosmology and the theory of how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed into an elegant package. Why does this impressive theory find itself in diffic

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