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Religion must not block progress

  • 15 May 2008
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The Commons has usually debated and voted sensibly over on issues such as embryology. Will members - particularly those who are Catholic - do the right thing?

A waste of space

  • 03 April 2008
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As Nasa turns 50, expect to hear much about lunar landings and giant leaps for mankind. But today a sense of unease hangs over an agency that badly needs to free itself from the shackles of the past.

Spare pairs of genes

  • 28 February 2008

Observations on DNA

Britain's moving story

  • 15 January 2007
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New studies of names and genes are confounding core beliefs about being British. We are unadventurous, our family ties are strong and women are exceptionally faithful

A wrong turning in space

  • 23 January 2006

Twenty years on from Challenger, the whole space shuttle project remains a disaster

Bring back stinks and bangs!

  • 18 April 2005

Children's scientific curiosity is being stifled by teachers' fear of safety regulations and court action. But without risk there can be no discovery, argues Robin McKie

Nature, the most deadly bio-terrorist of all

  • 01 January 2005

2005: Epidemics - It may not be in the next 12 months, but very soon, a new and virulent strain of flu is likely to sweep the world. Globalisation has made the spread of disease all too easy. Robin McKie reports

Big ideas - As long as a piece of string

  • 26 July 2004

Physics - Albert Einstein (left) sought unsuccessfully for a "theory of everything" that would combine quantum mechanics with relativity, and explain both the very tiny (the atom) and the inconceivably large (the universe). Now, physicists think they've found it

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