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The case of the missing core

Atoms through the looking glass

Downhill all the way

Faster than a speeding brain

Physics

Illogical Captain: The physics of Star Trek

Table of contents

News

In brief : TV makes kids fat

Technology

Technology : Spring-loaded chips bounce back

Science : Comet bids farewell with blaze of X-rays

Science : A role at last for mad cow protein

Science : Beam’s heart of darkness keeps to the straight and narrow

Technology

Technology : Cancer drug slows runaway cells

Technology

Technology : Pesticide molecule leaves a lasting impression

Children make music in the old fashioned way

Overweight mums put babies at risk

Sea Empress oil pollutes Ireland’s sandy shores

France wakes up to mad cow risk . . .

. . . as US takes close look at deaths from brain disease

Mystery malady claims Florida’s gentle giants

In brief : Shrinking star puts on firework display

In brief : Cryptic climbdown

Technology

Netropolitan

Not in front of the children

Seal hunters out for the count

Science : Time capsules older than the Earth

Science : Crippled HIV could do you good

Science : When half a brain is better than one

Science : Aphids battle for a tiny patch of sap heaven

An everyday story of laboratory folk

Disarmament reaches record level

Ivory towers must invest in teachers

Soaps and credit curb Brazil’s population growth

Russian secrecy could sink nuclear aid

Technology

Technology : Oral vaccines boost first line of defence

Technology

Technology : Running dust pollution to earth

Technology

Technology : Killing flames softly with a fine mist

Technology

Technology : Chemical cocktail clogs illegal drug kitchens

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Technology : Bidding opens for first high-definition TV broadcasts

In brief : Needle victory

In brief : Test of time

In brief : Scraping the barrel

Opinion

Editorial : Russia’s dangerous game – WESTERN governments are getting increasingly nervous about Russia’s nuclear legacy鈥攁nd so they should be. The secretive ways of the Soviet era have re-asserted themselves in a struggle that threatens not just Ru

Soapy science for the small screen

Features

The case of the missing core

Ten years after the lid blew off Chernobyl, a nuclear detective has a radical new theory about what happened. So why are so many people unhappy with his ideas? Justin Mullins reports

Atoms through the looking glass

Downhill all the way

Faster than a speeding brain

Physics

Illogical Captain: The physics of Star Trek

More

Enigma 871 : Pandigitals

Review : Before the Web

Thistle diary : No whitewash for a Forth disaster – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : Research students at the coal face – Ian Lowe investigates a new training scheme in New Zealand

Forum : Hybridisation rules OK!

Review : Tiger on the wing

Forum : Fantasy funding league – Richard Collingridge discovers some disturbing spending priorities

Review : Lost in plants

Review : Green iconoclasts

Review : BESTSELLERS from San Francisco

Review : Collected works

Review : Out of the African forge

Review : God was here

Review : Dead silence

Review : False start

Review : The straight dope on dinosaurs

Review : Ecomystics

Review : Tell it like it is

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