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The trouble with ME: For the past decade sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome have fought to get their condition recognised as a biological disease. Now scientific research seems to be backing their claims, says Renee Twombly

Birth of a human robot: Can AI researchers really turn today’s stupid robots into the intelligent humanoids of science fiction, asks Roger Lewin

Darlings, clones, you were wonderful . . .: The remake of a Jules Verne classic is grappling with the technical challenges of using virtually real actors. Clive Davidson reports

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News

Villagers sue mine over ‘ruined river’

Software tycoons back drugs from genes

‘Millions’ need hepatitis B jabs

World Cup’s field of dreams

Patents on life sneak through back door

Packing the most into pedal power

Billions claimed as Exxon trial starts

Big country loses farmyard talen

Have the cranes stopped flying?

Pentagon goes flat out for display panels

Africa’s farmers know best

Under the Alps by magnetism

War on ‘back-yard’ polluters

Trendy sums don’t add up

Green grub

Soft energy

No tests

Worm’s eye view from space

Bone grown

Goodbye, Moon

Open options

Arctic park

Hidden costs of a clean inheritance: Changing genes in sperm or eggs could free future generations from inherited disease. But critics argue that it would create a host of other, unacceptable effects, writes Andy Coghlan

Science: Human defences fall to blooksuckers’ spit

Science: Engineering a genetic high for the heart

Science: Hidden chamber yields key to immune response

Science: Garlic wards off undead bacteria

Science: Ozone low north and south

Science: Did DNA rings speed up evolution?

Science: The fruits of walking on two legs

Technology

Technology: And here is the online news . . .

Technology

Technology: Drug eats away at T cell reaction

Technology

Technology: Inner glow to save patients’ lives

Technology

Technology: Handy radar on course for the everyday

Technology

Technology: Sea’s green clean for boats

Technology

Technology: Workers head for heights with magnetic grippers

Technology

Technology: Viper could rekindle Britain’s charcoal-burners

Opinion

Comment: The 4.10 for Cairo

Comment: Engineering a Euro mess

What will be the products of the next century?

Features

The trouble with ME: For the past decade sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome have fought to get their condition recognised as a biological disease. Now scientific research seems to be backing their claims, says Renee Twombly

Birth of a human robot: Can AI researchers really turn today’s stupid robots into the intelligent humanoids of science fiction, asks Roger Lewin

Darlings, clones, you were wonderful . . .: The remake of a Jules Verne classic is grappling with the technical challenges of using virtually real actors. Clive Davidson reports

The Great Catalyst Picture show

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Review: From harmony to chaos in the skies

Review: Rocky times for earth sciences

Review: Winged chariot hurrying along

Review: Dig deep for the past’s hidden text

Review: Seconds away from reality

Review: A proper diet for mathematicians

Review: From insect to instrument

Review: Great experiments in philosophy

Review: His own words

Forum: Will Waldegrave walk the plank? – Two years after winning a seat in Cabinet, science may be about to lose it, says William Bown

Forum: Polynesian paradise for the regaining – Michael Brooke says the government should be showing that it takes global conservation seriously

Thistle Diary: A whiff of CFC in the air – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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