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Last week's contest for the leadership of Britain's Conservative party was a missed chance by both sides to say what is right and wrong about plans for a common currency
Genetic testing will become the future standard of medical care. Life insurers will also need access to genetic information if the insurance industry is to survive intact and if cover is to remain affordable.
A remarkable double white-dwarf star appears to confirm a mechanism by which binary stars lose angular momentum but suggests that the pair may yet spring to life a billion years from now.
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