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Cracking the Easter Island code

Virtual port of call – To stay at the top, the Port of Singapore is planning the ultimate upgrade. As Terry Slavin discovers, every last container will reach its destination untouched by human hands

A life in silicon

Seven planets for seven stars – Just as astronomers were losing all hope, new worlds beyond the Solar System have started to turn up, says Gabrielle Walker

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News

Bond telescope fitted with booster

Hooked on gadgets – Are bite alarms, sonar scanners and Kevlar rods spoiling the traditional sport of coarse fishing鈥攐r making a popular pastime more fun?

Farmers clamour for killer virus to be let loose

Cat flap

Hip fracture risk

Pill kills roaches

Satellite on credit

Nuclear test ban

Inside story

Home from home for Newbury snails

Science : Lunar power sends ripples round the Earth

Science : Birds and bees fly by numbers

Science : A gene that makes males redundant?

Science : Ancient organisms adopt steamy lifestyle…

Technology

Technology : Old 78s, stereo sound and all that jazz

Technology

Technology : Memories are made of this

Technology

Technology : Astra’s new satellite slot does for the dishes

Technology

Technology : Marilyn lives…on computer

Should we learn to love the urban monster?

Crowded beds spread childhood plagues

Suburban sprawl takes over as giant cities shrink

Farming comes to town to feed the world

Live scrapie test raises CJD hopes

Irish concern over safety of Sellafield waste tanks

Doctors slam tax on safer haemophilia therapy

Family videos ease pain of dementia

The satellite that got away

New Cluster may rise from the ashes

Countdown to disaster…

Lax pollution controls mean businesses lose out

Technology

Technology : Smell of success with sewage

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

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Technology

Technology : Deformed legs keep tiny robot in step

Science : …that promises enzyme for a hotter, whiter wash

Science : Slowly does it under the volcano

Science : Comet clue to missing neutrinos

Science : Editing enzyme corrects faulty genes

Opinion

Editorial : What the world needs now – ALL told, the UN Habitat conference was a bit of a damp squib鈥攆ew fireworks and only muted international attention. A mere handful of dignitaries showed up, and journalists outnumbered official delegates. Both

Editorial : How green turns to gold – “Where there’s muck there’s money” is a saying guaranteed to cause bewilderment in the US and draw blank looks in Germany and Japan, even when translated into the local languages. But all three nations know exactly ho

Features

Cracking the Easter Island code

Virtual port of call – To stay at the top, the Port of Singapore is planning the ultimate upgrade. As Terry Slavin discovers, every last container will reach its destination untouched by human hands

A life in silicon

Seven planets for seven stars – Just as astronomers were losing all hope, new worlds beyond the Solar System have started to turn up, says Gabrielle Walker

More

Thistle diary : Solvents, suntan and swamps – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Review : Life and nothing but

Review : Big babies

Review : Dinosaurs-upon-Tyne

Review : Parents, dig this

Review : Hopper’s story

Review : Home of the Vogons

Review : Lyme teaches a bitter lesson

Review : Phenomenonological

Review : Inside story

Review : BESTSELLERS from Washington

Review : Collected works

Forum : A short shelf life

Forum : Kuno and the German computer – Stephen Clackson on one of the world’s unsung pioneers of the computer era

Review : Parallel thoughts of trains

Antipodes : Chilly reception awaits Australia in Geneva – Ian Lowe finds that commercial interests sway greenhouse stance

Review : Inspired verse

Review : Buckybook

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