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Fuel of the forgotten deaths

Fusion at a pinch: Researchers at Imperial College arereopening a forsaken route to nuclear fusion 鈥� using DIY and help fromGroucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo

Time to screen for prostate cancer?: Doctors in the Westernworld are beginning to question the lack of research into one of the mostdeadly diseases facing ageing men

Still life in amber: Creatures that met a sticky end in treeresin have become assets for jewellers and researchers alike. An unlikelycombination of electron microscopes, mummies and maple syrup reveal howamber preserves its captives

Survival of the fittest technologies: CDs, disposable razorsand unleaded petrol would have made Charles Darwin smile. They have allseenoff rivals in the economic jungle

Careers: Simulating a real career – Start planning now for a future in virtual reality

Table of contents

News

Coal industry must invest or die

Chaos reigns ion two-timing Rio

Call to plan for cancer gene screening

‘Humane’ traps let traders off the hook

HIV pioneer shuns mainstream approach

Cities aim to cut greenhouse gases

Historic telescope smashed by storm

Germany tests alternative route to health

Line calls to swear by from electronic judge

‘Bubble baby’ to get gene therapy

Sparks fly over France’s ‘flawed’ accelerator

Will Us sanctions save the rhino?

Still waiting for the rain in Spain

European fund to make old Soviet reactors safe

Ruddy ducks love rare cousins to death

Clear waters

Antarctic law

Taking the lid off

Seed solution

No, says minister

Space campus

Bridging the two cultures

Home for holograms

Give industry a break: If you want companies to carry out more research, tax incentives give good value for money, according to new studies. In Britain, such incentives are banned

Science: Line up for the double-decker polymer

Science: Doing what comes naturally to get the right response

Science: Millipedes make short work of rival’s sperm

Science: Smokers feel it in their bones

Science: Lead turns buckytubes into real live wires

Technology

Technology: Got a walking, talking, virtually living doll

Technology

Technology: Botulism gives faces new lease of life

Technology

Technology: Worms slug it out in the garden

Technology

Technology: Cable TV goes for radio days

Technology

Technology: Rough road ahead for biodiesel fuel

Technology

Technology: Movies to feature on double-density CD

Technology

Technology: Rat cell implants could help Parkinson’s

Technology

Technology: Chips hold key to door security

Opinion

Prospects slim for reconciliation over policy

Comment: How many more will die?

Comment: Safer solutions

Features

Fuel of the forgotten deaths

More and more teenagers are dying every year after abusing lighter fuel. So why do so few people know about the dangers of butane compared with those of heroin, cocaine or ecstasy?

Fusion at a pinch: Researchers at Imperial College arereopening a forsaken route to nuclear fusion 鈥� using DIY and help fromGroucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo

Time to screen for prostate cancer?: Doctors in the Westernworld are beginning to question the lack of research into one of the mostdeadly diseases facing ageing men

Still life in amber: Creatures that met a sticky end in treeresin have become assets for jewellers and researchers alike. An unlikelycombination of electron microscopes, mummies and maple syrup reveal howamber preserves its captives

Survival of the fittest technologies: CDs, disposable razorsand unleaded petrol would have made Charles Darwin smile. They have allseenoff rivals in the economic jungle

Careers: Simulating a real career – Start planning now for a future in virtual reality

More

Review: Psychotherapy’s elusive mother

Review: Kingfishers in the frame

Review: Topless towers not of Illium

Review: A genius for structure

Review: Records in paper

Review: Do-it-yourself weather detectives

Review: Sceptic’s guide to ectoplasm

Forum: All pain and diminishing gains – counts the cost of being a research scientist

Forum: Dr Johnson’s morphic guide to physiks – finds scientific guidance in the works of Dr Samuel Johnson

Thistle Diary: Virtual worlds and costly patents – Comment from Westminister

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