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Cleaning up after the big chill: Thousands of rivers and streams are harmed by the de-icing chemicals that keep aircraft flying through the winter. Now airports are being forced to curb this damaging pollution

Chips with a life of their own: Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful. But scientists have already built devices that process electrical signals in the way nerve cells do

Humans

On the origin of races

Table of contents

News

Is global warming to blame?

Time to run tighter ships on the high seas

‘Total ignorance’ of effects of oil on the land

Minch marked out for next spill

Disaster lingers on in Alaska

Keeping an eye out for Sonic the Hedgehog

Activists join forces against the onco-mouse

US admits guilt over mustard gas tests

Cracks begin to show in Russia’s nuclear test site

Thai trial for dengue vaccine

Europe’s research supremo dreams of harmony

Cheap Russian parts for US supercollider

Does surgery buy breathing space for sick babies?

Green grow the journals ‘o

Women and children first into the flames

Risk from rain

Law flouted

Green light for solar power

Downward trend

Dirty buses

Electronic history

Soup-er gene

Earth

High hopes hanging on a ‘useless’ vine

Science: The end of the Universe as we know it?

Science: Good housekeeping, Neanderthal style

Science: Big bang passes toughest test

Science: Attacked macaques pick on winners’ kin

Science: Sugar beats fossil fuels as chemical building block

Science: Stony asteroid devastated Siberia

Technology

Technology: Opening a window on what the viewer wants

Technology

Technology: Algal power gives a clean burn

Technology

Technology: How a supercontinent went to pieces

Technology

Technology: Dioxin destroyer makes incinerators better neighbours

Technology

Technology: Police get direct line to computer

Technology

Technology: Pot in a cone saves gas in the kitchen

Technology

Technology: Pleasure boats run silent, run clean

Technology

Technology: Sun-soaked wicks purge salty water

Technology

Technology: Sick computers screen themselves

Opinion

The pitfalls of ranking research

Comment: Lost at sea – the vital evidence

Comment: Trust a botanist?

Features

Cleaning up after the big chill: Thousands of rivers and streams are harmed by the de-icing chemicals that keep aircraft flying through the winter. Now airports are being forced to curb this damaging pollution

Chips with a life of their own: Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful. But scientists have already built devices that process electrical signals in the way nerve cells do

Humans

On the origin of races

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Photochemistry

Review: Astronomers as discoverers

Review: Past actions, present perils

Review: In the beginning were the words

Review: Welcome to the company of souls

Review: A story of diminishing returns

Review: Accounting for disaster

Forum: Lusting for information? – Elisabeth Geake thinks the chips are down for television as we know it

Forum: Energy in the modern market – There are far better things to do with trees than chop them down for short-term gains, says Ian Fells

Thistle Diary: Honest convictions and prosecutions – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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