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News

Comment: Death by asteroid

Comment: African AIDS is no myth

West fiddles while population soars

Return of the gymslip mum

Monk seal find haven on disputed African coast

Uncertain future for clean coal technology

Icy asteroids could power reactors in space

Raw deal for Japan’s problem children

Satellite uncovers ancient Arabian river

Clinton may slash Star Wars

Alaskan camp may rewrite hisory

Fur flies over cracked lids

Costly mistakes in Antarctica

Pollution ‘partly to blame’ for seal deaths

Massive cash injection needed to halt killer diseases

Tropical countries veto rainforest protection scheme

Astronomical clues crack Mayan calendar’s code

Is this teleportation as we know it?

Optical fibre

Euro-software

Pest wars

Star burst

Smart chocolate to feed the mind

Wrong altitude

Whales saved

The hour of the activist: AIDS campaigners in the US are changing the way the nation’s research into HIV is organised. Will other diseases get the same treatment?

Science: A giant step for artificial enzymes

Science: Cyanide detector mimics death by poisoning

Science: Tin makes its interstellar debut

Science: Are birds with long tails sexier?

Science: Synchronised exloration

Science: The mathematics of synchronised mountaineering

Science: Why breast is best for the liver

Science: Modified clover could create super sheep

Technology: CD presses pump up memory power

Technology: Space scouts on the lookout for cosmic ripples

Technology: Will the electronic notepad write its way to the top?

Technology: BBC radio beams down for a bigger slice of Europe

Technology: Silicon giant raises stakes in the chips war

Technology: Here is the (virtual) nine o’clock news . . .

Rendezvous with the red planet: Are there unknown minerals on Mars? How do its weather systems work? Answers from the Mars Observer satellite will pave the way for human exploration

Breaking up is hard to understand

How to foil an assassin: Top politicians who use too many bodyguards may increase the risk of being assassinated, mathematics shows. This is a powerful lesson for sites where safety is critical

Gulliver among the atoms: Have you ever thought what it would be like to hitch a ride on an electron? Computers are revealing how atoms behave in solids and helping researchers to design better materials

God and the Arctic survivors

Review: Genesis of the Jumbo

Review: Voyage around the green and pleasant planet

Review: A tactile approach

Review: Edinburgh celebrates science

Review: Sixty million years of horses

Review: Inquire within on everything energetic

Forum: At sixes and sevens with the ultimate question – Murray Batchelor and Bruce Henry attempt to raise the curtain on the great mystery

Forum: Curse of the drinking classes – Adrian Furnham finds the work ethic is alive and well

Thistle Diary: Winning ways to make the grade – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: One in the teeth

Letters: Excellence for all

Letters: Excellence for all

Letters: Mines and dunes

Letters: No conflict

Letters: No conflict

Letters: Maxwell meet

Letters: Blue flash

Letters: Whale milk again

Letters: Nice spiders

Letters: Nice spiders

Letters: Jet circles

Letters: Right is wrong

Letters: Too many sheep

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Opinion

Young heads on old shoulders?

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