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Selling science to the public: Is the drive to educate the public about science merely an exercise in public relations and labour recruitment? Who will really benefit?

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All the world’s a zoo: Captive breeding may no longer be enough to save endangered species. Is it time to start manipulating the animals left in the wild?

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The perils of popular science: ‘Media boffins’ often incur the wrath of colleagues back in their ivory towers. The best advice is to become eminent in your field before venturing into the public arena

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Too much of a good thing

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The year the taps ran dry: Britain’s sweltering summer ismore than a repeat of the freak weather of 1976. This year’s heat wave ispart of a drought that is afflicting most countries in Europe

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For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses

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Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?

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Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?

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Why should anyone care about taxonomy?

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Counting species one by one

Biologists will never be sure that they have found and named every last species on Earth. But they have a long way to go before they can even start to wonder

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Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently

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Palaeontology’s hidden agenda

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Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes

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Muons, pions and other strange particles

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