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Scientists fume over California's pesticide plans
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Green patents corralled
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Special : Happy birthday Hubble!
On 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into a low Earth orbit. Now, 20 years on, Hubble continues to produce stunning images of the Solar System and the farthest reaches of the Universe. In this special, Nature presents a retrospective, a slideshow and over ten years of archive stories about the iconic telescope.
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