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They overheat horses, don’t they?: Intense heat and humidity could provide one test too many for horses at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, says John Bonner. Researchers are desperately trying to find ways of keeping the animals cool

Waiting for the Big One: California’s latest earthquake had a hidden and unexpected source. If it’s a harbinger of worse to come, seismologists could be looking for the next one in the wrong place too

Move over, San Andreas: Evidence from California’s biggest quake in 40 years has fuelled a controversial theory that the continental margin is being recarved . . . 400 kilometres inland

A death in the neighbourhood: Why did a giant red star turn orange before it died? Who stole its hydrogen? And what does it mean for the astronomers on the case?

A glimpse at the evolution of life through mouldy bread

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News

SET for success as science goes down the pan

Millions at stake over ‘human’ mouse

Fossil smugglers plunder Brazil

Supermac’s damp squibs

Exercise machine works out the perfect work-out

Closely observed near misses

Royal Society slams hasty review

CERN plans shutdown to finance collider

Swimming pool observatory fills gamma ray gap

Airlines take ozone monitors on board

Intimate secrets of the snake’s forked tongue

Patients could lose out in tussle over gene bank

Give us the dough to crack whet genome

Post mortem

Snooper sale

Only cohere

Waste ‘is safe’

Very model molecules

Macho munchers

Books to bedding

Majority rule for science: South Africa’s first democratically elected government has a monumental task ahead in reforming a science system twisted by 45 years of apartheid

Science: Living fast, dying young in the rainforest

Science: No respite for Pacific mackerel as stocks dwindle

Science: Female turtles play the field

Science: Fire from the stars could spell global disaster . . .

Science: . . . and shower the Earth with buckyballs

Technology

Technology: Anticancer drug walls up malignant cells

Technology

Technology: Fantasy could look virtually real very soon

Technology

Technology: Green hybrid takes to the track at Le Mans

Technology

Technology: Vaccine against gangrene could save limbs

Technology

Technology: Apple bids for PC power

Technology

Technology: Billing computers innocent, says BT

Patents: Don’t call us

Patents: Brainstorming cure

Patents: Software minnow triumphs over Microsoft

Patents: Can-dough yeast

Opinion

Comment: Inquire within

Comment: Secret of open government

Features

They overheat horses, don’t they?: Intense heat and humidity could provide one test too many for horses at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, says John Bonner. Researchers are desperately trying to find ways of keeping the animals cool

Waiting for the Big One: California’s latest earthquake had a hidden and unexpected source. If it’s a harbinger of worse to come, seismologists could be looking for the next one in the wrong place too

Move over, San Andreas: Evidence from California’s biggest quake in 40 years has fuelled a controversial theory that the continental margin is being recarved . . . 400 kilometres inland

A death in the neighbourhood: Why did a giant red star turn orange before it died? Who stole its hydrogen? And what does it mean for the astronomers on the case?

A glimpse at the evolution of life through mouldy bread

More

Review: Make your own morphic resonance kit

Review: How to play with the elements

Review: Voyages round your computer

Review: Rich pickings in deserted cities

Review: Fishing in Australia

Review: All the fun of the festival

Review: In a world of words

Forum: Who’ll compensate the victims? – Assessing damage liability needs the wisdom of Warsaw claims Mike Price

Thistle Diary: Weird dreams in Waxahacie – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum: So farewell Treem – and Bill Tidy – After 24 years on the front line, Grimbledon Down is closing down

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