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Struggling for space

Cracking up

Socotra’s misty future

Spinning clouds into stars

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News

Japan ‘came close’ to wartime A-bomb

‘Patent on space’ fuels global phone war

How many more hot spots at Dounreay?

The price may be right, but that’s not enough

Anchors aweigh for wave-power pioneers

Junior minister defends reshuffle

Turtles threatened by medical myths

Secret radiation tests ‘still possible’

A place in the sun for New Mexico’s farmers

Rivals aim to smash Windows’ online offer

Paris chokes while officials fiddle

Top staff attack WHO chief

Where in the world has the plutonium gone?

Fishermen and loggers square up over salmon

Morale booster?

Kite flying

Hot drinks

Made for each other

Bad blood

Six of the best

Discovery dented

Australia’s growing disaster

Secrets of Ulysses’ solar voyage

A wise fish knows its plankton

Thin rings chronicle old eruptions

Fungal infection brings chemical joy

Parasites destroy sexy smell of male mice

Will the real Universe please stand up?

Technology

Ebola virus tests put safety first

Technology

Red light sniffs out explosive gases

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� US Government on the Internet

Technology

Bar codes to tag ‘bad genes’

Technology

Phone companies revolt over ‘Internet of the air’

Technology

How to neutralise noisy neighbours

Patents

Opinion

Welcome winds of change

Features

Struggling for space

Russia is about to launch two research satellites and plans to send up another pair early next year. But how much can the cash-strapped space industry really hope to achieve?

Cracking up

Socotra’s misty future

Spinning clouds into stars

More

The view from Turtle Island

The Forgiven

Open Secrets

Smart money on silicon? The Quantum Dot

Deep Passion

Heavenly Bodies

Dirty Stories

Bestsellers from Sydney

Hormone warfare

Lives of the global moguls

Nature Study

God Appeal

Collected works

Electronic power to the people

Victorian art of river rage

Enigma: No. 833 Equal Shares

Topaz and the tecnophobe

Correction

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week’s questions

Questions and Answers

Deceptor vans

Blowing bubbles

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