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Physics

Flight of the Frisbee

Throwing a Frisbee can be fun if you know how to do it. One of the problems is that the flying disc cannot decide if it is an aerofoil or a gyroscope

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Britain and the human genome: As Americans with megabucks gear up to unravel the secrets of human genetics, can British scientists do anything useful with a relatively modest sum?

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Forest saviours follow in the footsteps of Gandhi

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Warriors of the woodlands: The summer of ecological discontent may be made inglorious if the ecowarriors of the US decide on violent confrontation with loggers to defend ancient forests

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The spread of cancer in the human body

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The microbes that would not die: Microbiologists have coaxed life from a brick from a temple in Thebes, from permanently frozen arctic soil and from ancient muds on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Are these organisms really survivors from earlier centuri

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Space

Surviving radiation in space

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In the beginning was the genome: The world’s first ‘big science’ project in the life sciences – The project to map and sequence the entire complement of human genes

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Doubts raised over accuracy of DNA fingerprinting

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In search of a mammoth fraud

Did a North American from the Stone Age carve the image of a mammoth on a bit of shell? Or is the so-called Holly Oak pendant yet another archaeological fake?

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Fog, wind and heat – life in the Namib desert

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Sun, surf and sewage: While Australia’s national tourist board urges foreigners to visit Sydney, local environmentalists struggle to persuade the city’s authorities to clean up the urban coastline

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Is the Universe a computer?

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Ailing after Alvey: The Alvey programme was Britain’s big chance to compete in information technology – Brian Oakley, a former director of Alvey, reflects on what went wrong

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