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Hackers come in from the cold: Governments should spend less money on spies in trench coats and more on computer hackers in anoraks. Or so says a former CIA officer

Technology

Inventions that almost were

Stronger than atoms

The Jupiter experiment: Plasma in space is like nothing on Earth. Ulysses, now on its way from Jupiter to the Sun, is one of two space missions to explore this high energy enigma

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News

Nuclear club offers to help Russia clean up

How ecstasy blows your mind

Solar dream car comes through

Bernstein’s scores online for a ‘library without walls’

Staff marooned as marine merger changes course

Smith says yes to science ministry

High-fliers still leaving Britain

Poison gas not to blame for Gulf War sickness

Fantasy flights to fix the phones

Can oestrogen fend off Alzheimer’s?

Placenta donors to be screened for brain disease

Too little too late to save Atlantic bluefin

Look who’s making waves in Hurricane Harbor . . .

‘No misconduct’

Thanks for the chip

Folic acid failure

Museum staff on one-day strike

More milk

Enormous eggs

Rice man winneth

Scrap tyres: a burning issue – With Britain’s mountain of old tyres growing out of control, the government has called for new ideas to recycle them.

Science: Bedtime warming baffles climatologists

Science: Kinky galaxy reveals its wayward past

Science: Macho makes for a sorry sex life

Science: Darwin’s plants give up their ‘blue’ secrets

Science: How bacteria beat a retreat

Science: Sweet succour

Technology

Technology: Listening in to life on the mean streets

Technology

Technology: Can atom optics make more powerful chips?

Technology

Technology: Chickens lay golden eggs of genetics

Technology

Technology: EMI worries for DCC’s future

Technology

Technology: Protein packs a punch in the fight against cancer

Technology

Technology: Comfortable commuting peaks in Hong Kong

Technology

Technology: Radar tracks hungry holes

Technology

Technology: A cleaner burn for Mexico’s cars

Opinion

A nuclear response which speaks louder than words

Comment: A fishy tale

Comment: All the right noises. . .

A U-turn in the fast lane

Features

Hackers come in from the cold: Governments should spend less money on spies in trench coats and more on computer hackers in anoraks. Or so says a former CIA officer

Technology

Inventions that almost were

Stronger than atoms

The Jupiter experiment: Plasma in space is like nothing on Earth. Ulysses, now on its way from Jupiter to the Sun, is one of two space missions to explore this high energy enigma

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Christmas Review: The art of giving

Christmas Review: Genes are us

Christmas Review: A gloss on knowledge

Christmas Review: Consider the cow . . .

Christmas Review: Constellations by the handful

Christmas Review: Spanning the world’s great divides

Christmas Review: Disorder lurks in the wings

Christmas Review: Buy a slice of the past

Christmas Review: Tales to tell our children

Christmas Review: Let’s hear it for the limbic

Forum: Perchance to scrutinise the field

Forum: On the ascent of crime

Thistle Diary: Breaking new life in the badlands – More Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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