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The mini explorers of Middle Earth: Unlike many fully fledged adults, toddlers make good navigators. How do they develop the skills of map reading?

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Technology

Missing the Hinkley Point

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Profit and loess from China’s silt

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Wayward genes play the field: A plant’s genes do not always stay where nature intended. Wrapped up in grains of pollen they sometimes impregnate other species – Genetic engineers need to know if their products will be as promiscuous .BL By STEPHEN YO

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Trains that go pop in the dark: Trains generate pressure waves in tunnels that can cause passengers’ ears to pop – Railway authorities in Europe have started to seal the carriages for comfort at high speed

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Seafood special – eating for conservation: Poaching from coral reefs threatens the giant clams of the Pacific with extinction – Farming these enormous molluscs could guarantee their future

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Neptune – Voyager’s last picture show: The spacecraft Voyager 2 is leaving the Solar System 12 years after its launch – Its last close encounter showed us clouds on blue and stormy Neptune, and surprises on Triton, the moon with an icecap of methane, vol

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Chemical weapons feel the heat: The US and the USSR have reached the beginnings of an agreement to destroy their chemical weapons – Their move could lead to a worldwide ban

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History feeds German fears on gene technology: Biotechnology companies are deserting West Germany for friendlier climes – Scientists who want to experiment on human embryos could soon follow

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Space

The Red Planet in a new light

Photos of Phobos, the first heat images of Mars and traces of the planet's leaking atmosphere have all come from a Soviet space mission that, earlier this year, some said was a failure

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A whole lot of mining going on: Extracting coal from shallow seams is cheap and causes no lasting damage to the environment, say the mining companies – Experience in Britain suggests it may not be quite so straightforward

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Elephants and the ivory tower

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Botany breaks into the candy store: Plants are turning up trumps with an assortment of small, sugar-shaped molecules that may help not only to treat cancer and AIDS, but also to control insect pests

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Why stress gets on your nerves

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