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South Africa takes the apartheid out of power: Although more than half the electricity generated in all Africa is produced in South Africa, most of the country’s black people have no power supply. But things are changing

Poisoned plumes: Across the US, environmentalists are protesting against rocket launches. Toxic exhaust fumes from rockets packed with solid propellant attract the greatest concern

The parching of prehistoric North America

Why small is sometimes sexy: In the struggle to reproduce, we usually think of the biggest, strongest males as being most likely to succeed. But in species where it is hard to find a mate, it may pay to be a wimp

Will we catch a falling star?: There are many asteroids out there in space, and the chances are that sooner or later one will head for Earth. But no one knows what to do if we find ourselves on collision course

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News

Stalemate in battle between man and machine?

Dolphin epidemic spreads to Greece

Sellafield may be a graveyard for high-level waste

Koreans cross the 39th parallel

Will Gaddafi’s great river run dry?

Inside the barrel of Iraq’s next supergun

Calls for tougher pact on biological weapons

Beet and wheat to fuel Dutch buses

Dirty cities head Brazil’s environmental ills

North and South divided on environment charter

At the BA: How practice makes the perfect genius

Genome funds ‘wasted’ on patents

At the BA: Dinosaur detectives – Science came to life in the southwest last week when the British Association for the Advancement of Science returned to Plymouth. New 杏吧原创 concludes its coverage of the annual science festival

At the BA: Why a nation’s Health is patently obvious – Science came to life in the southwest last week when the British Association for the Advancement of Science returned to Plymouth. New 杏吧原创 concludes its coverage of the annual science festival

At the BA: Blooming algae warm the world

At the BA: Lazy lecturers hide behind their slides

At the BA: No way up for young scientists – Science came to life in the southwest last week when the British Association for the Advancement of Science returned to Plymouth. New 杏吧原创 concludes its coverage of the annual science festival

At the BA: Cool cauliflower faces the frost

At the BA: Patent problem

At the BA: Lean times

At the BA: Designs on diabetes

At the BA: Phantom allergies

At the BA: Rural risks

At the BA: Two-tier physics?

Science: Wormholes open a gateway to other worlds

Science: Volcanic dust threatens the ozone layer

Science: Antarctic gold dust

Science: Fourth neutrino: theory leaves cosmology intact

Science: Chemists play with molecular cages

Science: Chemical basis of memory

Science: Anticancer drug teaches unruly cells to toe the line

Science: Pulsar ‘cannibalised’ another star’s planets

Technology

Technology: Airbus safety claim ‘cannot be proved’

Technology

Technology: Europe puts its money where its MAC is

Technology

Technology: Japan’s thinking computer goes on show

Technology

Technology: Baby translator masters 400 words

Technology

Technology: Rapid recharge for batteries in Nissan’s electric car

Technology

Technology: Japanese cast an optical loop round the Moon

Technology

Technology: Meter measures oil flow at the bottom of the sea

Opinion

Comment: Contract researchers out in the cold

Comment: Policing the bugs of war

Features

South Africa takes the apartheid out of power: Although more than half the electricity generated in all Africa is produced in South Africa, most of the country’s black people have no power supply. But things are changing

Poisoned plumes: Across the US, environmentalists are protesting against rocket launches. Toxic exhaust fumes from rockets packed with solid propellant attract the greatest concern

The parching of prehistoric North America

Why small is sometimes sexy: In the struggle to reproduce, we usually think of the biggest, strongest males as being most likely to succeed. But in species where it is hard to find a mate, it may pay to be a wimp

Will we catch a falling star?: There are many asteroids out there in space, and the chances are that sooner or later one will head for Earth. But no one knows what to do if we find ourselves on collision course

More

Talking Point: What we must do to save the planet

Review: Prevention is the name of the game

Review: Getting the facts across

Review: Better described as a ‘great uncle’

Review: Forerunners to the forecast factory

Review: A visual joy ride

Review: Changing face of innovation

Review: Animals: a matter of life and death

Forum: Conflict looms over troubled waters – Who is paying for the water to be drawn from the well

Forum: Genetics as it is spoken – The link between genes and language

Forum: Credits where credits are due – An extra source of funds for research

Thistle Diary: Protection full fathom five – Comment from Westminster

Forum: Getting to grips with left-handed yoghurt – Optical isomers in a new light

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