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Back from the dead

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Emission control

Not fade away

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News

Conflict looms over India’s river plan

The world's largest water project is designed to relieve drought in India. But it could bring disaster elsewhere

Flu outbreak triggers fears of global pandemic

Columbia left a legacy to science

NASA shifts focus to ice impact risk

How to steal a PIN in just 15 attempts

Soundbites

Sacred heirlooms tarnished

Dispatches

Too busy to spot a smallpox outbreak

Are troops at risk of Gulf war syndrome II?

Britain’s global energy vision

Nuclear bunker busters come under scrutiny

The only additive you’ll ever need

Within a hair’s breadth

Technology

Turning money into mush

Technology

Cleaning up Internet gags

Technology

“It’s your bank manager鈥�”

Not all cancer cells are equal

Chock-full of methane, Lake Kivu stores enough energy to power all of Rwanda

Prions make all the right connections

Fish got two bites at teeth

Modified mosquitoes pass the fitness test

Larvae resist might of the sea

Agencies join forces to warn of disasters

Sopping-wet secret of the Red Planet

Fighting over pharming

Gene silencing gains strength in numbers

Bad breath bugs

Forensic back-up

Reptile uses unusual orifice to keep cool

Sweet and sour

Telescopic vision

Has TB met its match?

Opinion

Only use once

However HIV spreads, conventional syringes have had their day

Perception is everything

A sense of wonder

The word centrifugal

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Back from the dead

Some stars simply refuse to go gentle into that good night. For a flamboyant minority, nothing less than a dramatic return from the grave will do. Hazel Muir investigates

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