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Long live the Net

Starstruck

Humans

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Tricks of nature

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News

Did Martians land in Antarctica?

NASA claims a team of researchers has found traces of organisms that lived on the Red Planet billions of years ago

Seeds, soup and the meaning of life

Earth oddities tell their tale

Still alive after all these years?

The oldest meteorite from Mars

Other worlds, other lives . . .

Fossils launch a fleet of probes

This beach ain’t big enough for the both of us

HIV locked out by mutated gene

Bombs away for New Zealand’s island rats

Tomorrow’s bitter harvest – The genetic diversity of our agriculture is rapidly vanishing, leaving our crops prone to pest and plague

Science : Acid test for intelligence

Science : Milk hormone helps expectant fathers `tolerate’ babies

Science : Anticancer drug blocks DNA repair

Science : Argentina was part of Texas

Science : Forgotten particle fits glueball profile

Science : Genes chart the spread of farming

Science : The genes of the fathers . . .

Science : Bumpy lifestyle led to external testes

Science : Quantum hologram says it with atoms

Technology

Technology : Water stops blasts in their tracks

Technology

Technology : Timely test spots TB `in hours’

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Light tweezers to launch drugs

Technology

Technology : Tree toxins deter caterpillars

Technology

Technology : Fake waves break the ice in winter

Technology

Technology : Left-handed drug opens up safer surgery

Opinion

Editorial : Lonely little Earthlings – “WE believe that wherever this meteorite originated, something lived,” says the New York Times, quoting scientists involved in discovering that a meteorite contained complex hydrocarbons and the imprint of f

Features

Long live the Net

Starstruck

Humans

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Tricks of nature

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Antipodes : Two universities dominate research rankings – Ian Lowe examines an American analysis of Australian research papers

Review : Shoot-out at the cyber corral

Review : Pioneers raise the roof

Review : Simple gravity

Review : Earthy business

Review : Back to nurture

Review : Before Darwin

Review : Future imperfect

Review : The eyes have it

Review : Driven green by age

Review : In praise of plants

Review : Don’t look back

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : It’s a harder thing I do鈥�

Forum : The importance of being diverse

Thistle diary : Malignant malaria and fraudulent farmers – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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