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Panning for data gold

All aboard the Pluto Express

Body of evidence

Wrinkle Wars – The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

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News

Science : Consensus emerges on age of the Universe

Record breaker

Fire alarm

Gene battle

Safe weight loss

US feed ban

Science : Fossil finds don’t toe the line

Science : Larvae give dancing bees bad vibes

Science : Squaring HIV’s vicious circle

Farming for distant degrees – Students on remote crofts in Scotland’s Highlands and Islands are about to join the 21st century as education’s electronic revolution brings lectures into their homes

Science : Sunspots send winter storms flying north

Technology

Technology : Big fat tokamak gets thumbs-up

Technology

Technology : Second-hand PCs `will sink Internet machines’

Technology

Technology : Do-it-all protein helps kidney repair

Science : Glowing embers at the edge of time

Science : How to give a dinosaur the hump

Technology

Technology : Look out, it’s behind you

Technology

Technology : One step nearer the Sun

Military cash tempts more universities

Forensic lab awash with Semtex

Cold shoulder for climate research

Mexico fishes for end to tuna ban

Navy’s bureaucrats cling to `open secrets’

Wide awake surgery keeps killer cells on the alert

Technology

Patents : Mary, Mary

France ignores benefits of folic acid

What’s it like to be a gorilla?

Plug a leak and save the world

LA’s garden gas guzzlers die for a good cause

Scourge of infections kills Third World’s young

All eyes on near-miss asteroid

Swiss planned a nuclear bomb

Science : Mutants tear up nature’s timetable

Technology

Patents : Pop-up TV

Technology

Patents : See hear

Technology

Patents : Gotta chew

Technology

Patents : Light brigade

Technology

Patents : Plea for more cash for innovators

Technology

Technology : What goes up stays up a little longer

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Trip the switch and kill the cancer

Opinion

Editorial : Time to bury inflation? – ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t

Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own – FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

Features

Panning for data gold

All aboard the Pluto Express

Body of evidence

Wrinkle Wars – The big guns of research are being brought to bear on the wrinkle. Rosie Mestel investigates the latest claims in cosmetics

More

Review : Raining facts

Review : Prizewinners

Review : Doing the rounds

Review : Pulling them in

Review : Collected works

Review : Green grow the literati, oh

Review : Master of the skulls

Review : Flora’s daughters

Review : Hawkeye

Review : Enfants sauvages

Forum : Nature green in leaf and stem

Forum : The trouble with Piggy’s specs

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Enigma 876 : Short circuit

AustralAsian : Telemedicine in need of a check-up – Bob Johnstone finds Australia is unprepared for Asian health boom

Washington diary : Under wraps and on the rocks – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

The Milky Way

Review : Space, sex and sums

Review : Written in the genes

Review : Bomb ROM

Review : Zoo-ology

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