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Clock of ages

Taming the heavens

Fires of the apocalypse

Killing an asteroid softly

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News

Depleted uranium casts a shadow over peace in Iraq

To overcome Iraqi forces, coalition troops fired thousands of shells tipped with DU. But we still don't fully understand its long-term health effects

Simulation solves mystery of flight downed by cockpit fire

Cave art date splits critics

US wolves left out in the cold

Dispatches

Netherlands’ chicken cull tries to stop bird flu virus in its tracks

NASA model not up to the job

Fashion firm denies plan to track customers

Waves of destruction

You don’t need a 3G phone to get video

Oldest image of god in Americas found

Botulinum toxin soothes chronic pain

Soil bacterium targets tumours

Slow farewell twixt man and ape

Technology

Weighing up the case

Girls like a wider view

Technology

One for the price of two

Technology

Flat-out drug discovery

Bendy nanotubes do the twist with target proteins

Tellurium crystal reveals its secret under pressure

No need to neuter?

First and only edition of the book of life

We hear that鈥�

Physics

First results on gravity waves

Physics

Super-cold atoms mimic early Universe

Physics

Instant of success for fusion on a shoestring

Mussels give muscle

Earliest stars

Origins of malaria

Stem cells cure MS mice

Literary study links gender to style

Opinion

Before the dust settles

Now is the time to find out if depleted uranium damages health

Rein in the extremists

Set them free

Powers to the people

The word Beacon Valley

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Clock of ages

The way evolution works makes it impossible for us to have genes that control how long we live 鈥� or does it? It may be time for a major rethink, says Garry Hamilton

Taming the heavens

Fires of the apocalypse

Killing an asteroid softly

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It’s a bug’s life

One culture

Hang on in, bats

Group minds

Gregory Stock

Andrew Knoll

Clever man

Wealth of invention

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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