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Fuel economy

• The Difference Engine: Four bangs for the buck
  

  Even in America, four-cylinder cars now rule the road - Babbage (11)

• • • The 2011 oil shock is more of a threat to the world economy than investors seem to think (Mar 2011)
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  • • Bad news for more than motorists (Jan 2011)
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  • • Topic page: Petrol prices

AIDS

• The 30 years war

  Hard pounding is gradually bringing AIDS under control (3)

• • • The end of AIDS?
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  • • From the archive: The first time The Economist mentioned AIDS
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  • • Moving images from the three-decades-long battle against the scourge
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  • • Our correspondents discuss the fight against AIDS
    • Multimedia
    • (1)
  • • Topic page: HIV and AIDS

Forests and climate change

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  Lidartector

  How to tell if countries are cheating on their conservation commitments (6)

• • • An international deal on deforestation makes it ever more important to measure the Earth’s woodlands
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  • • Forests are not the only habitat whose conservation matters the climate. Peat bogs are, too
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  • • A special report on forests
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  • • Topic page: Forestry and logging

Educational psychology

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  Now you know

  When should you teach children, and when should you let them explore? (8)

• • • Applying science to the teaching of science
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  • • Making something hard to read means it is more likely to be remembered (Oct 2010)
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  • • Topic page: Education

The geology of the planet

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  A man-made world

  Science is recognising humans as a geological force to be reckoned with (30)

• • • Leader: Welcome to the Anthropocene
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  • • Erle Ellis on the Anthropocene: Humans as a force of nature
    • Multimedia
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  • • Topic page: Geology

Fundamental physics

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  Not pear-shaped

  Physicist have measured the shape of the electron with unprecedented accuracy: it is round (20)

• • • Dr Van Winkle and the Large Hadron Collider
    • Babbage
    • (20)
  • • This just in: the Higgs boson has probably not yet been found (Apr 2011)
    • (9)
  • • Topic page: Physics

Plasmodium vivax

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  The other malaria

  Many people think of malaria as a single disease. It isn’t (9)

• • • Malaria among birds is becoming more prevalent
    • (10)
  • • Progress is being made in tackling malaria (Dec 2010)
    • Daily chart
    • (5)
  • • Topic page: Malaria

Combating addiction

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  Can a vaccine stop drug abuse?

  It may be possible to vaccinate people against addictive drugs (24)

• • • Using therapist-free therapy to treat addiction (Mar 2011)
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  • • Near misses could heighten gambling addiction (May 2010)
    • (6)
  • • Topic page: Drug addiction

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