By day, Roger Highfield is a mild-mannered science journalist, author and broadcaster. But under that crisp white lab coat beats the heart of his alter ego, Boffin...

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Natural

Many critics of the way science is applied moan that it is "unnatural". But what we mean by "natural"? When it comes to our home planet, for example, which vintage of Mother Earth is the most "natural" and thus the one to which should we be faithful? The Earth as it was a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago? Or before bacteria had enriched its atmosphere with oxygen? Or perhaps a very new Earth, one subjected to ...

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