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Happy birthday, Supernova 1987A: Five years ago next week, astronomers saw a brilliant star explode. The supernova has now faded, but its expanding debris is likely to trigger more interstellar fireworks

Face to face with the perfect image: Images generated by computer are adding new dimensions to traditional portraiture. Besides their humorous value, these images are beginning to reveal how we process faces

Life and death in a digital world: No one can turn back the evolutionary clock, but we can follow the fate of a rich menagerie of artificial organisms as they evolve in a model world

Return to Madagascar: Little is known about Madagascar’s remarkable natural history. Now the island is opening its doors to the world’s researchers

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News

Home Office unlocks the door to car thieves

US gene plan ‘makes a mockery of patents’

Trials ‘a must’ for disputed cholesterol drugs

Swiss back animal research by a whisker

NASA resignation leaves room at the top

Japan’s reactor plan fuels world concerns

Malaria vaccine trials stopped by anonymous experts

Research cash call

Radiation linked to long-term gene damage

Industry ‘should pay to clean its mess’

Two-day tragedy of bishop birds

Paris exodus

Technology link

Boost for research

CFC phase-out

Sellafield censure

Nuclear job centre

Minamata damages

‘Harmless’ beer brought down the bootleggers: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

What monkeys chew to choose their children’s sex: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Of mice and men . . . and rabbits: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Mitochondria tell the tale of migrations to America: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Engineered genes in grafted skin could be body’s protein factory: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Christopher Columbus and the mystery of the dumb dogs: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Arms sales flourish as old order breaks down: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New 杏吧原创 were there

Science: Planets are common around solitary pulsars

Science: Antibody proved to prevent HIV infection in apes

Science: As easy as getting blood from a stone

Science: Atomic lens

Science: Computer chemistry – the shape of things to come

Science: Gamma ray pulsar

Science: The billion amp current that flows round Jupiter

Technology

Technology: Satellites alert farmers to plagues of locusts

Technology

Technology: The key to locking out computer saboteurs

Technology

Technology: The shrinking world of supercomputers

Technology

Technology: Unclogging the chip’s electronic snarl-ups

Technology

Technology: New shocks for sharks

Technology

Technology: Transforming the prospects for robot vision

Technology

Technology: Two hulls could be cheaper than one for fast ferries

Opinion

Talking Point: Ten years to save the world

Comment: . . . and stop vacillating over vaccine trials

Comment: Give us the green facts . . .

Features

Happy birthday, Supernova 1987A: Five years ago next week, astronomers saw a brilliant star explode. The supernova has now faded, but its expanding debris is likely to trigger more interstellar fireworks

Face to face with the perfect image: Images generated by computer are adding new dimensions to traditional portraiture. Besides their humorous value, these images are beginning to reveal how we process faces

Life and death in a digital world: No one can turn back the evolutionary clock, but we can follow the fate of a rich menagerie of artificial organisms as they evolve in a model world

Return to Madagascar: Little is known about Madagascar’s remarkable natural history. Now the island is opening its doors to the world’s researchers

More

Review: Flight of the stork, robin and raptor

Review: Literacy for the computer

Review: A bookshelf of the starry skies

Review: How we got the way we are

Review: Richard Feynman’s lost journey

Review: Young, gifted and a problem

Forum: To kill a planet – Ken Croswell witnesses an act of courage

Forum: Terminological literacy – Jeff Hecht gets down to some homework

Forum: The great Dutch recycling farce – Peter Spinks looks into a colourful system of waste diposal

Thistle Diary: Radiation hazards after the Cold War – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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