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Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect – and open to suggestion

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News

By Jupiter . . . what a performance

Women sue over painful implants

Satellite guard on nuclear fuel

There’s money in space for Australia

Cancer cells ignore death order

Clues lost when children’s medical records are discarded

When love is nothing but a catastrophe. . .

Sperm injections ‘too risky’

Can poison save Pitcairn petrel?

France wins fight for HIV royalties

Birds lose place in the shade

Pacific winds of change predict African harvest

US loosens laws for testing modified pest killers

Smuggled plutonium

Appeal fails

Snack pack that baffles bears

Keep it casual

Fossil fund

TV compromise

The Midas Touch: An elite corps of researchers funded by a single institute is stealing the limelight in biomedicine

Science: Diabetes epidemic strikes Pacific islanders

Science: Taking the temperature of T rex

Science: How New England laid vampires to rest

Science: Dark stars come closer to home

Science: Honeybees iron out their directional problems

Technology

Technology: US viewers prefer video-on-demand

Technology

Technology: Drug makers get a kick from bugs that like cocaine

Technology

Technology: Bacterial infections wiped out in a flash

Technology

Technology: Robot repair gangs for America’s highways

Technology

Technology: Earthworms breathe life into derelict land

Technology

Technology: Are science parks virtually dead?

Technology

Technology: CD drives fail video standards test

Technology

Technology: Water jet puts surgeons at the cutting edge

Opinion

Comment: Noxious fumes

Comment: Centre of excellence

Publishing and perishing

Features

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect – and open to suggestion

More

Review: The making of herbal myths

Review: How to build on disasters

Review: Fins and blazing paddles

Review: Paradigms are not the only answer

Review: Beside the seaside, beside the sea

Review: Darwin at Walden

Review: The right stuff on the Moon

Review: Saving fossils from the Philistines

Forum: When Bernal got plastered with Picasso . . . – the resulting work of art became a historical souvenir well worth saving

Forum: Popping the right eco-questions – Peter Holway goes in search of some efficient queries

Thistle Diary: Chernobyl churn-up – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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