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Bright new world

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News

The race to find a vaccine

We may only have a year before SARS is everywhere. Can we develop an effective defence against the coronavirus that causes it in such a short time?

Poincar茅 solved?

Soundbites

Tokyo’s cracked reactors may power up again

This film will self-destruct in one year

Dispatches

1930s idea ‘extends range of rovers’

Short sharp shock awaits trespassers

Humans

A struggle for Eden

Genes reveal signs of ice age life

Virgin birth method could found stem cell dynasties

Magic numbers herald new wave of superalloys

We hear that鈥�

How a sweeter kind of yeast will make hundreds of drugs more effective

Rotor eases Hercules’ tasks

Stroke risk linked to bacterial infection

Dogs in the dock over debilitating worm

Lead may be damaging the intelligence of millions of children worldwide

Laser beams get fluids flowing

Technology

Feeling better already

Technology

Clubbers vote for the vibe

Technology

Rioters get an airing

Virus beats food bug

Earth

Here comes the rain鈥�

Earth

Conference Round-up

Stars’ last gasp

Careful swinger

Memory metal

Radical coffee therapy

Wine bacteria get electric punch drunk

Opinion

Variations on a theme

Just because creatures share the same genes doesn't make them identical

A vaccine against SARS will not be enough

Where progress is a lost cause

Mapping the criminal mind

The word Haptics

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Technology

Bright new world

A strange discovery could spark a nanotechnology revolution, bringing perfect lenses, rapid medical tests and superfast computers. Bruce Schechter welcomes the dawn of plasmonics

Quick fix

Wipeout: when life nearly died

Holy stones

Hotter than zero

More

Ladder of life

Texting ’bout a revolution

Bestsellers – Cambridge

Roberta and the Jester

Where is Everybody? Fifty solutions to Fermi’s paradox by Stephen Webb

Cry Freedom

Futures near perfect

Get on the brain train

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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