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Witness for the deceased

Vermin of the skies: Astronomers used to curse asteroids for obscuring their view of the heavens. Now, as Ken Croswell discovers, scientists think they may hold the clues to the origin of the Solar System

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News

Butterfly smugglers trapped in Delhi

Future quakes could rock world economy

South African soap aids the health of the nation

Seeds of hope for Rwanda’s farmers

‘Wrong paddy fields’ measured for methane

Climate change threatens southern Asia

A little plutonium goes a long way. . .

Cairo row over teenager’ right to choose

Dust settles on Jupiter after comet crash

Hidden galaxy discovered on Earth’s doorstep

Brain drain goes into reverse

Pests have field day in the heat

‘Dead insect’ grounds Japan’s rocket

Some confusion over fusion in the US

Fast words speed past dyslexics

Ammonia appeal

Ills of spills

Call for coal

Bungee monkey

Fall in physics

Hands under the sea

A disaster in waiting

How safe if SAFE ?: A plan to upgrade two nuclear reactors in Solvakia may force Western governments to stop dithering over nuclear safety in Eastern Europe.

Science: Martial arts students influence the past

Science: How ripening fruit invite fungal attack

Science: Ants are smart enough to keep appointments

Science: Rogue protein may spread BSE throughout brain

Science: Is dark matter shadowed by dust?

Technology

Technology: Satellite guide picks a way through the ice

Technology

Technology: The culture that came from outer space

Technology

Technology: Waiter, there’s no fly in my cereal

Technology

Technology: NHS takes first step down information superhighway

Technology

Technology: Computer pioneer calculates cost of failure

Patents: Nose jobs

Patents: Flashy caller

Patents: Games people play

Patents: Super sound

Patents: Climb every bathtub

Opinion

Comment: New nightmare for old?

Features

Witness for the deceased

the trade in endangered species is an international problem. Stephanie Pain reports from a unique laboratory dedicated to solving wildlife crimes

Vermin of the skies: Astronomers used to curse asteroids for obscuring their view of the heavens. Now, as Ken Croswell discovers, scientists think they may hold the clues to the origin of the Solar System

Outback oases

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Review: Biology for robots

Review: Big science earns its keep

Review: Nuclear innocents adrift in the Pacific

Review: In the trail of solar eclipses

Review: Logoland for young learners

Review: Fame and folly in the frozen north

Review: Rock art in a secret garden

Review: From Wales fo Madeira

Forum: Have buckyballs lost their bounce? – Jim Baggott wonders why we are always so impatient with great discoveries

Forum: A harmonist of art and science – Robert Lamb on the life’s work of a great Victorian synthesiser

Washington Diary: Cults of the inventor and other lively squawks – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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