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<description><![CDATA[Yes, we're still here! Despite the nay-sayings of the doom-mongers, scientists at Europe's...]]></description>
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<title>Sandcastle Science</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even on the beach, you can't get away from science: observe the humble sandcastle. You may...]]></description>
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<title>The Ills of Dolphin Assisted &quot;Therapy&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; A couple of years ago, my local paper ran a heart-warming story about a couple who set...]]></description>
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<title>Goodbye Arthur C. Clarke – Visionary</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We must wish Andrey Kobilnyk, departing editor of FirstScience.com, good luck this week and...]]></description>
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<title>Scrape, scratch and ouch!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scratch, scrape and ouch. Ugh... every morning... It's not much of a mystery - we're...]]></description>
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<title>Wait... A laptop for less than US$ 400?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is a usable laptop for less than US$ 400 believable? Does it work? The short answer seems to...]]></description>
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<title>Bicycles - part of the urban transport solution?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Back when I was growing up - sometime after the invention of the wheel - I rode a bicycle...]]></description>
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<title>2008 - Year of the first cyber-war?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The concept of an attack by one nation on another seems on the cusp of being redefined. In...]]></description>
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<title>US 2008 Science budget slashed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The USA, the world's largest economy will be spending less on science in 2008, with physics...]]></description>
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<title>What we may believe...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[“Why are scientists and government not making decisions for the future in a manner more in...]]></description>
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<title>A robot for dentists?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A robot for dentists would strike many of us as being a bit odd and perhaps frightening. But...]]></description>
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<title>Gifts for Geeks!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Christmas gifts for scientists, the curious, and the geek in your life.... It's now less than...]]></description>
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<title>Monkey Cloning: Are humans next?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Human cloning has taken a step closer to reality. While this is the first case of a cloned...]]></description>
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<title>Comet Holmes - A big surprise!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t supposed to be a big show – but it is. Visible in the night sky without binoculars...]]></description>
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<title>Scientists and the media: victims or villains?</title>
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<title>Could Neanderthals speak?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals had a gene which is associated with speech in...]]></description>
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<title>50 years: Sputnik, the space race, and what next?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[October 4, 2007 was the 50 year anniversary of human designed machines leaving the warm embrace...]]></description>
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<title>Do animals have rights?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Caligula, the mad Roman emperor, made his horse a senator. Circus lore recalls tales of...]]></description>
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<title>Bad news for Microsoft?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Microsoft lost a long running appeal in the European Court of First Instance. ...]]></description>
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<title>Farewell to Utopia?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What do we imagine the future will look like? How will people live 50 years from now � or even a...]]></description>
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<title>Is life delicate, or is it strong?</title>
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<title>Massive hole found in the Universe!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's an extremely odd discovery - a volume almost a billion light-years across and empty not only...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[This was the banner under which protesters marched yesterday, the last day of a week long very...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I know I�m sick � very sick, with a very serious illness. Yesterday, I felt a bit tired, today...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday August 2nd, two Russian mini-subs travelled under the surface of the Arctic Ocean...]]></description>
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<title>Metal planes are impossible</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lord Kelvin, an extremely noted scientist and technologist said in 1895 that...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Could radiation from nuclear power plants or other sources really cause fish to grow three...]]></description>
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<title>Science? Why should I bother?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It�s unusual for a science publication to take this sort of tone � but let�s have a...]]></description>
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<title>Alien Life - Official: it's stranger than you think...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What are the limits to life in planetary systems? A new study from the National Research Council...]]></description>
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<title>Newton: Hypotheses non fingo</title>
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