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One false step… – Hidden land mines take a terrible toll, killing civilians for years after a conflict ends. Justin Mullins examines the technologies that researchers hope will tackle this lethal legacy of war

Warm havens for life on Mars

Trouble bubbles for hydropower – From China to Norway, new hydroelectric schemes are supposed to help cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But will they? Fred Pearce investigates

Zombies, dolphins and blindsight

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News

Monkey missions outrage animal activists

Shock pregnancies 10 years after sterilisation

Natural radiation ‘may kill thousands’

Second-hand smoke gets in your blood

Technology

Technology : Star Wars satellite joins battle for the environment

Technology

Technology : Sad doll disease ends in tears

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Hidden watermark traps picture pirates

Technology

Technology : Catching blood clots before they do damage

Technology

Technology : Crunch time looms for processed peas

Technology

Technology : Any sound you like, as long as it sells

Science : Lost limbs reveal the brain’s ghostly wiring

Science : Flashes of light from the quantum world

Science : Oilmen’s hunch proves rock-solid . . .

Science : . . . as black gold reveals its plastic parentage

Science : Suicide is also a plant’s best friend

Heavier lorries planned for Britain’s roads

Technology

Technology : How to track the body’s hot spots

Science : Have the mind mappers lost their way?

Drug-resistant TB

The hole where the ultraviolet comes in

Radiation patchwork

Asteroids galore

Restless gene

Naked apes

British astronomy goes up for sale

Europe halts march of supermaize

Passions run high over French cave art

Mind switch could help disabled regain control

Europe’s new rocket hangs on a shoestring

Opinion

Editorial : Green for danger . . . – THE government’s attitude towards reducing the impact of transport on the environment is rather like St Augustine’s view of chastity: “Give me chastity and continency鈥攂ut not yet.”

Editorial : A narrow kirk in Edinburgh – OVER the past few weeks, Edinburgh University has supported its controversial psychologist Christopher Brand, on the grounds that “academic freedom” allows his studies of intelligence, race and genetics. So far, so

Features

One false step… – Hidden land mines take a terrible toll, killing civilians for years after a conflict ends. Justin Mullins examines the technologies that researchers hope will tackle this lethal legacy of war

Warm havens for life on Mars

Trouble bubbles for hydropower – From China to Norway, new hydroelectric schemes are supposed to help cut emissions of greenhouse gases. But will they? Fred Pearce investigates

Zombies, dolphins and blindsight

More

Review : Missing

Antipodes : Trees can lessen climate change economically – Ian Lowe looks at the costs of greenhouse policy

Review : Fairyland wins

Review : Words’ worth

Review : Norway’s space

Review : Outspoken engineer

Review : Europe’s megaliths

Review : Particle hunters

Review : The good, the bad and the FBI

Review : Great idea

Review : Body heated

Review : Tell it true

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Review : Collected works

Forum : Taking arms against the mercenaries

Forum : Save the animals, feed the people

Thistle diary : Hubble trouble and limestone rubble – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Enigma 873 : Prime time

Review : Sleep, glorious sleep

Review : Children of an effluent age

Review : Demystifying Meg

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