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• • Featured article:Who should bear the carbon cost of exports? - Premium content

    China has become the world's biggest carbon emitter partly because of its exports. So whose responsibility is that, asks Philip Ball?

    06 March 2009

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  • Don't cry politicization - Premium content

    To call biomedical research proposals political distorts the issue, says David Goldston.

    01 July 2009

  • Climate future - Premium content

    Deciding how to evaluate a cap-and-trade programme raises some thorny questions, says David Goldston.

    03 June 2009

  • When is a pandemic not a pandemic? - Premium content

    Arguments about the pandemic status of swine flu are a distraction from tackling the outbreak, warns Declan Butler.

    21 May 2009

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  • Is religion good for your health? - Premium content

    Religion arose to protect us from disease, US researchers claim. Philip Ball unpicks the idea.

    Fri Aug 01 17:00:27 EDT 2008

  • Who says the Internet broadens your horizons? - Premium content

    Online access to scientific journals can be a mixed blessing, as Philip Ball finds out.

    Thu Jul 17 18:00:00 EDT 2008

  • Why we should love logarithms - Premium content

    The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.

    Thu May 29 18:00:00 EDT 2008

  • The scientist delusion - Premium content

    Religious resistance to science is often exaggerated, but fresh problems may lie ahead, says David Goldston.

    Wed Mar 05 18:00:00 EST 2008

  • Behind the mask of the LHC - Premium content

    The physics that the Large Hadron Collider will explore has tentative philosophical foundations. But that's a good thing, says Philip Ball.

    Thu Jul 03 17:18:18 EDT 2008

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      21 May 2009

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• 08 July 2009
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      09 July 2009

    • How to stop blogging

      09 July 2009

    • Adieu to nuclear recycling

      09 July 2009

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      09 July 2009

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      21 May 2009

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      30 April 2009