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How collectors killed: One hundred and fifty years ago next week the last two great auks ever seen were killed at their breeding colony on a tiny island off the coast of Iceland. Tim Birkhead chronicles the bird’s fate

Will the Space Clipper stay a DREAM?: Star Wars spawned the technology that could make space travel as routine as air travel, and a prototype reusable rocket has already flown. Arlan Andrews explains how its fate is hanging on a report to be published ne

Mad brains and the prion heresy: The idea that a simple protein could act as an infectious agent was too much for most biochemists. Georgina Ferry reports on what happened when one man dared to go out on a limb

Table of contents

News

DMA test traps shale traders

Novelist’s illness was no fiction

Big butcher of Boxgrove leaves a bone behind

South Koreans caught in the act

Genetic first upsets food lobby

Very large row over telescope

Tough target for Britain’s ozone

AIDS must compete for research cash

Is US carelessness arming foreign powers?

Catastrophes take their toll on a crowded world

Russia gambles on biotechnology

Good vibrations give plants excitations

Land of the rising computer drowns in paper

Ready to grab

Pharaohs’ first flagstone road

Paper promises?

British tummy

Winning genes

Yours authentically

Trials on trial: A single incident of fraud has put studies of medical treatments under the political spotlight in the US. Bernice Wuethrich asks if the fallout threatens the future of clinical research

Science: How ice survives on fiery Mercury

Science: Ozone over America thins to record low

Science: Tiny wires form inside crystal

Science: Electron waves are in the groove

Science: How to make ‘stars’ out of dark matter

Science: Chinese fossils could have been our ancestors

Technology

Technology: Auntie steals a lead in wide screens

Technology

Technology: How to pick a winner from the fibre formbook

Technology

Technology: IBM stacks up CD storage

Technology

Technology: Smart videos keep track of pedestrians

Technology

Technology: France lights the way to molecular switches

Patents: Wall screen title fight

Patents: Stored up

Patents: Changing the ringers

Patents: Light in the tunnel

Patents: Camera tricks

Opinion

Comment: A sunrise without Japan?

Comment: Sushi or safety. . .

Earth

Forum: Gaia, Gaia: don’t go away

Features

How collectors killed: One hundred and fifty years ago next week the last two great auks ever seen were killed at their breeding colony on a tiny island off the coast of Iceland. Tim Birkhead chronicles the bird’s fate

Will the Space Clipper stay a DREAM?: Star Wars spawned the technology that could make space travel as routine as air travel, and a prototype reusable rocket has already flown. Arlan Andrews explains how its fate is hanging on a report to be published ne

Mad brains and the prion heresy: The idea that a simple protein could act as an infectious agent was too much for most biochemists. Georgina Ferry reports on what happened when one man dared to go out on a limb

More

Review: Eating can damage your health

Review: And on this year’s short list . . .

Review: Great science, great stories

Review: God and the final frontier

Review: Consider their ways

Review: Picking over the bones and stones

Forum: Let’s hear it for happiness – Alison Brooks argues that no one should be miserable

Forum: Washington Diary – In the public interest – Andreas Frew reports from the heady height of Capitol Hill

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