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Predictions of Better Weather Forecasts

Will the Atlantic storm chasers of Fastex improve our weather forecasts?

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Trans-Species Transplantation Ban in UK

Pig-to-human organ transplants banned by UK because of possibility of viral infections

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Oldest Tools made by Man's Ancestors

Preshistoric technology used to make 2.5 million-year-old stone tools found in Ethiopia

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Long-term Effects of Bhopal Chemical Disaster

Report on incurable long-term health effects of the Bhopal chemical disaster 12 years ago

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A Refit for the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts will install new instruments to enable Hubble to see more and deeper into space

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Space Walk to Work on the Hubble Space Telescope

Astronauts' first space walk to install new instruments in Hubble is a success

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Has HERA created a new particle?

Exciting results from the HERA 'atom smasher' but no one knows exactly what they mean yet

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Influenza Epidemic of 1918 carried by Pigs

Genetic investigation of original autopsy specimens shows 1918 influenza carried by swine

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Dolly the Cloned Sheep makes History

How Dolly the sheep has become the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell

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Looking into the Hearts of Stars in the Laboratory

How plasma experiments create 'very hot, very exotic states of matter' in the laboratory

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Hale-Bopp is brightest Comet for 20 Years

Where and when to see Hale-Bopp and what makes the comet glow so brightly

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Dinosaurs were declining before an Asteroid hit

Volcanic-induced climate changes may have been the main cause of dinosaur extinction

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New Evidence in the Nature versus Nurture Debate

The brains of mice living in an enriched environment show definite advantageous changes

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The Geologist, the Creationist and Noah's Ark

A geologist challenges a creationist under consumer law in an Australian court

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Secrets of Gamma-Ray Bursts in Space

Astronomers locate the origin of mysterious gamma-ray bursts but what exactly is it?

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Did this Dinosaur have Feathers, Frills or Bristles?

The palaeontological jury is still out on whether dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had feathers

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Do tree lizards show evolution in action?

The leg-length of lizards marooned on islands could hold a key to evolutionary processes

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The Perils of Prospecting for Gold

Prospecting for gold after the Bre-X scandal: how not to be fooled by 'salted' samples

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Antarctic Penguins contract Poultry Virus

Did humans or birds carry a serious poultry virus to the Antarctic?

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Peer Review System shows Sexism, says Swedish Report

Claims that peer review system treats women scientists unfairly finds echoes in UK and USA

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Alzheimer's Researchers find a new Way to study the Brain

Mice with an added human gene enable researchers to study amyloid protein in the brain

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Are Women's superior social Skills in their Genes?

Might social skills be influenced by a gene that is turned on in girls and off in boys?

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Breathing in your Medicine

New drug inhalers could replace injections for many medicines

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Cannabis may not be such a soft Drug after all

Rats' extreme withdrawal symptoms from cannabis provide new insights into the drug

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The Prehistoric World of Boxgrove Man

When elephants, lions, panthers and wolves roamed southern England

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Pathfinder is Sending Photos from the Surface of Mars

Mars Pathfinder is sending pictures of an ancient riverbed and a meteor impact crater

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How to Avoid Disaster when Installing a Computer System

Think carefully before you computerise and avoid the sins of pride and credulity

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It's Another Foggy Morning on Mars

Pathfinder's robot, Sojourner, sends weather reports and rock analyses from Mars surface

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Showing off on the Nano-Guitar

Ten-micron-long guitar carved from crystaline silicon by an electron beam

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The Sound of Quantum Mechanics

The first sounds of quantum theory recorded in superfluid helium-3

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