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Technology : X-ray lens brings finer chips into focus
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Tabletop telescope with cosmic ambitions
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Science : Comet clue to missing neutrinos
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Bright light, black hole
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Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights
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Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe
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Science : Do X-ray comets shed carbon?
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Technology
Technology : I spy with my lobster eye
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Physics
Planes, trains and wormholes
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Powerhouses of the cosmos: Gravity’s Fatal Attraction by Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees, W.H. Freeman, £19.95/$32.95, ISBN 0 7167 5074 0
Books & Arts
Some of our quasars are no longer missing
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Why small black holes are just hippies
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