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I process therefore I am: Artifical intelligence researchers are still divided over the best way to build machines that think. But two of the field’s leading players at least agree that machines could soon be conscious of their thoughts and actions

Hi-fi cells at the heart of the ear

The Universe through gamma ray eyes: Some of the Universe’s most vital statistics can only be discovered by decoding cosmic gamma rays – an enormous job for NASA’s giant space observatory

Careers: Come on in, the salary’s lovely – Technical skills continue to attract the highest salaries in the industrial sector

Careers: Why graduates won’t wear science – A strong science and engineering base is vital to a strong economy. But many graduates with the right degrees shun their chosen subject. New 杏吧原创 spoke to some and asked where the fault lies – with them, w

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News

Hacker’s acquittal casts doubt on law

Secret Service violated right to electronic privacy

VAT on fuel is ‘imperfect’ way to cut carbon

Australian schoolchildren find ancient egg on coast

Huntington’s disease traced to ‘stuttering’ gene

Malaria vaccine vindicated in Colombian trials

Battle looms as US revises rare species act

Ripples in ‘earth current’ may signal quakes

The electronic road to recovery

Fungus experts’ foray into Russia

Teething troubles over Hitler’s body

Treaty makes polluters pay, whatever the law

Mine in the sand dunes gets clean bill of health

Not a punk

Ethical adviser

One step forward

Implant reaction

Super for Europe

Recycling cars

Crack at a condor

The pigs done good

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power. Although the American system creates jobs and reduces pollution, Britain has been slow to exploit it

Science: Quasar with two holes in its heart

Science: Mini mammoths survived into Egyptian times

Science: The mercurial rise of a superconductor

Science: Trail-blazing ants prefer the straight and narrow

Science: Immune system’s blind spot helps HIV

Science: Boost for ‘bottom up’ theory of Universe

Technology

Technology: A chilling solution for uranium miners

Technology

Technology: The mice that sprint through Denmark’s sewage

Technology

Technology: Antarctic career move for ageing torpedo

Technology

Technology: TV galore – a couch potato’s dream come true

Technology

Technology: How static could improve satellite signals

Technology

Technology: Virus lies in wait for plant diseases

Technology

Technology: The fish ladder with a twist

Patents: Wireless network

Patents: Cocaine eater

Patents: Patents Information

Patents: Sweeter sludge

Patents: Fuel guzzler

Patents: Stumbling towards a united Europe

Opinion

The seeds of a new industry

Comment: Daresbury: dead but not forgotten

Comment: Electronic joyriding

Features

I process therefore I am: Artifical intelligence researchers are still divided over the best way to build machines that think. But two of the field’s leading players at least agree that machines could soon be conscious of their thoughts and actions

Hi-fi cells at the heart of the ear

The Universe through gamma ray eyes: Some of the Universe’s most vital statistics can only be discovered by decoding cosmic gamma rays – an enormous job for NASA’s giant space observatory

Careers: Come on in, the salary’s lovely – Technical skills continue to attract the highest salaries in the industrial sector

Careers: Why graduates won’t wear science – A strong science and engineering base is vital to a strong economy. But many graduates with the right degrees shun their chosen subject. New 杏吧原创 spoke to some and asked where the fault lies – with them, w

More

Review: Tales and tools of evolution

Review: An encyclopedic view of ancient Europe

Review: Not in my image

Review: Fashionably disordered minds

Review: Tales of heat and flight

Review: Voting patterns for aesthetes

Review: A trawl through the past

Forum: Unleashed torrents of a watery hell – Fred Pearce thinks it is time to ban the new dam busters

Forum: So you think a little learning is a dangerous thing – Donald Gould is a bit unhappy about professors

Thistle Diary: Taking the initiative in biodiversity – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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