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Sugaring the pill

Are we killing astronomy? – Street lights, satellites and CFCs are swamping the spectra that are vital to understanding the cosmos. Marcus Chown explores whether anything can be done to keep us in touch with the Universe

The journey of a thousand miles . . . – Copying the way our muscles work with rough-and-ready rewiring has already got one paralysed woman onto her feet. But will it ever be good enough to restore natural movement or even help people walk, asks Pete M

Super charging the shuttle 鈥� It’s overweight, underpowered and just not up to the job. Even so, NASA

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News

Galileo teases out Jupiter’s secrets

Satellite injured in space wreck

Sneezing while the Earth warms

And all because the lady loves…

Pollution detectives add to greenhouse woes

Children bowled over by subtle sales pitch

Inventive academics turn to City for cash

Australia declares war on nuclear weapons

Dole beckons for the shortest children

Miners strike green gold

It came from the south. . .

High anxiety lowers the birth rate

Hollywood debut for Cecil B. Sealion

Tyrannosaurus packed a killer crunch

Help for whales

Epidemic eases

Generous measures

Strange object

Greenhouse row

Luminous balls reveal the real Ginola

Pennies from heaven – New high-tech companies are shunned by conventional investors. So who can they turn to?

Science : Polio vaccine linked to cancer

Science : Infant island flips its lid

Science : Clean sweep for leaf-eating chimps

Science : Gas takes on deadly malaria

Science : Suicidal nerve cells take away the pain

Science : Comets lose their pristine image

Science : Silkier webs lure more insects to their doom

Technology

Technology : Cancer-stranglers go on trial

Technology

Technology : Lasers get the measure of forests

Technology

Technology : Bubbles boost silver recycling

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Apple takes a byte out of wiring

Technology

Technology : Versatile liver inspires parallel processing

Technology

Technology : Images that leap through tables

Technology

Technology : Lone virus speeds the gene shuttle

Opinion

Editorial : Media studies is the message – ONCE again the results of the school examinations are out and once again they seem to show that teenagers are turning away from science. At A level, the percentage of students studying physics was down 5.7 per ce

Editorial : And now, a word from the sponsors . . . – IT can’t be easy selling a product that has a good chance of killing you, or at least ruining your health, but tobacco companies certainly don’t give up easily. Advertising cigarettes on TV was banned

Features

Sugaring the pill

Are we killing astronomy? – Street lights, satellites and CFCs are swamping the spectra that are vital to understanding the cosmos. Marcus Chown explores whether anything can be done to keep us in touch with the Universe

The journey of a thousand miles . . . – Copying the way our muscles work with rough-and-ready rewiring has already got one paralysed woman onto her feet. But will it ever be good enough to restore natural movement or even help people walk, asks Pete M

Super charging the shuttle 鈥� It’s overweight, underpowered and just not up to the job. Even so, NASA

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Antipodes : Biology 101 on the midnight to dawn shift – Ian Lowe ponders what government plans will mean for universities

Review : Blinded by the hype

Review : Sex stories

Review : Past shame

Review : Bloody murder

Review : Place your bet

Review : Not so handy hints

Review : Hopes for the future

Review : Once upon a superhighway

Review : …track southern sights

Review : …catch southern stars

Review : Watch southern skies…

Review : China rising

Review : Play science

Review : Save your life

Review : Collected works

Review : Pleasuredomes of despair

Review : Genius made simple

Bestsellers : from Sydney

Forum : One bird’s prison

Forum : A weather eye on the sunspots

Thistle diary : Hot gas and dirty exhausts – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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