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Where two worlds meet…

Secrets from another Earth – After three years, the $200-million bid to build a Martian colony on Earth, collapsed in disarray. Now, says Gabrielle Walker, Biosphere 2 has a team of top scientists with a brand new dream

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News

Science : HIV team cracks receptor mystery

Prostate cooker

Healthy pinta

Smokescreen

Lean machine

Net arrests

Science : Fur and feathers rose as plates pulled apart

Science : `Junkyard’ yields new weapon against cystic fibrosis

Science : Do gamma rays burst from a quark soup?

Written out of history – Britain’s nuclear test veterans may lose their long battle for compensation because the government is threatening to axe a database containing their medical records

Science : Molecular switch throws light on a miniature future

Science : Dinosaur DNA fails new test of time

Science : Heavy hydrogen unbalances the big bang

Technology

Technology : A sideways look at liquid crystal displays

Technology

Technology : Red cells race towards a diagnosis

Technology

Technology : Ferry service laid on for space commuters

Technology

Technology : Electric storm forecast could save satellites

Legal axe hangs over green timber

Companies turn blind eye to diddlers and spoofers

Children learn faster to the sound of music

TV hell for millions as Channel 5 goes on air

Deadly blooms reach Britain’s rivers

Tropical smogs rival big city smoke

Technology

Technology : Designer antibodies hold tumours in lethal embrace

Pill may hasten HIV infection

Secret evidence convicts wild birds

Land of the vanishing researcher

Shape-shifting hormones keep hearts healthy

Australia dashes astronomers’ hopes

Flying houseboat lands an award

Cars must go to meet clean air target

Bottle-fed babies need brain boosting formula

Technology

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Technology : Congress may close spooks’ back door

Technology

Technology : The real winner at Eurovision

Opinion

Editorial : Not in anyone’s backyard . . . – LAST week, the German government sent in 9000 policemen armed with truncheons and water cannon against 3000 antinuclear campaigners with little more than hoods and scarfs to protect them. That an army of riot p

Editorial : Australia turns a blind eye – AUSTRALIA has long had a magnificent reputation with astronomers, mainly because of its willingness to invest in telescopes that exploit its location in the southern hemisphere. How sad, then, that this is being u

Features

Where two worlds meet…

Secrets from another Earth – After three years, the $200-million bid to build a Martian colony on Earth, collapsed in disarray. Now, says Gabrielle Walker, Biosphere 2 has a team of top scientists with a brand new dream

Hello is anyone there

dash dot dash dot dash dot

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Forum : Living death of a ghost town

Review special : Ape and essence

Review special : . . . and again

Review special : Speaking in many tongues

Review special : Return to Goodall

Review special : Origins of misery

Review special : Affair to remember

Review special : Hijacking Earth

Forum : The self-confidence trick

Review special : An anthropologist in space

Review special : Collected works

Review special : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Review special : Only connect

Review special : Doing it the alien way

Enigma 875 : Oh hell!

Thistle diary : Lynx on a hot tin roof – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Review special : Women’s room

Review special : So let them eat algae. . .

Antipodes : Fuel cells promise a greener valley – Ian Lowe investigates a new coal technology

Review special : Sex and sensibility

Review special : Come again . . .

Review special : Talking about evolution

Review special : Art’s retort

Review special : Original altruist

Review special : Vita in vitro

Review special : Freud’s riposte

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