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The hottest rocks on Earth: Ancient lava could hold the key to what happened beneath the Earth’s crust more than two and a half billion years ago-and help pinpoint new sources of the world’s most valuable minerals

Fat is a pharmaceutical issue: Every day millions of people turn to diet pills as a last resort. But as drugs companies continue to prey on this desire to be slim, more and more doctors are challenging the chemical fix

Taking the pulse of evolution: Do we owe our existence to short periods of change in the world’s climate?

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News

Rare orchids handicap golfers

Gene hunters sound warning over gay link

Mapper records St Louis blues

Road plan to save dwindling dormice

Toxins bloom round French coast

Tamoxifen trial ‘too soon’

Surprise quake hit Japan’s ‘blind spot’

Welsh reactor shuts for good

Europe’s fishing rules slip through the net

Strands from the dawn of time

Fossil fuel plans for nuclear station

Poison tent beats sleeping sickness

Aerial tour of Britain’s changing landscape

Triumvirate steers course for Britain

Refreshment for the thirsty Everglades

Whales doing well in the southern seas

Rotting reservoirs

Delayed action

Second blast

Packed and ready to go home

Engine embargo

Stolen fruit

Mapping by starlight

City planners against global warming – Rethinking the design of towns and cities could help to restrain the spiralling growth of traffic and cut emissions of carbon dioxide

Science: Are we living next door to a cannibal?

Science: The changeable past of the world’s climate

Science: Women leave indelible mark on evolution

Science: Nile silt yields secret of Egyptian civilisation

Science: Secret satellites spy on Earth’s trembling ‘tear drop’

Science: The truth about the colour purple

Science: A supergiant step for black holes

Technology

Technology: No winners at Chernobyl

Technology

Technology: The ethereal sound of eastern promise

Technology

Technology: Destroying toxic wastes in a pressure cooker

Technology

Technology: Sony picks up the bits in CD recordings

Technology

Technology: Satellites reap a sugary harvest

Technology

Technology: A sweet frequency for oranges

Technology

Technology: Computer closes in on childhood’s secret enemies

Opinion

What does the minister do next?

Comment: A gene for our times?

Comment: The excuses run dry

Thistle Diary: Unkind cuts and nasty nox – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

Whose copyright is it anyway?

Computer networks mean magazines and journals can be called up at the press of a button. But the publishing revolution will have to wait until publishers and authors know their rights are protected

The hottest rocks on Earth: Ancient lava could hold the key to what happened beneath the Earth’s crust more than two and a half billion years ago-and help pinpoint new sources of the world’s most valuable minerals

Fat is a pharmaceutical issue: Every day millions of people turn to diet pills as a last resort. But as drugs companies continue to prey on this desire to be slim, more and more doctors are challenging the chemical fix

Taking the pulse of evolution: Do we owe our existence to short periods of change in the world’s climate?

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Review: The writing on the landscape

Review: Patterns for existence

Review: A community of birds revealed

Review: Authoriatarian attitudes in the schoolroom

Review: Playing games with the future

Review: Washington’s great river from source to the sea

Review: Edinburgh’s books

Paperbacks – Roy Herbert weighs up the lives of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Isaac Newton, looks at left-handedness, sheep slayers and near death experiences, and ponders the mystery of speech

Forum: Rationales for research – 杏吧原创s must face up not only to which science but whose rationale, claims Francis Slakey

Forum: Who’s for a piece of the action – Carina Norris foresees a great future for human souvenirs

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