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Into the dark state

Out of Asia

Fanning the flames

Table of contents

News

Prize in sight

Taking E-votes to the masses

Insuring nanotech

Shock tactic

Peninsula peak pops its top

60 Seconds

Name those years

Safety at NASA

Are nanobacteria alive or just strange crystals?

Isotopes etch prehistory of stone tools

Four-winged birds were first to take to the air

Cosmic dark age found in shadows

Bubbles trigger explosive death of white dwarfs

It’s a small world inside your head

Soundbites

A father’s shock legacy

Life began with a knack for copying

Climate change heralds thirsty times ahead for most

Toxic chemicals from ice-breaking ships are polluting Antarctic seas

Plant tweaked to make omega-3s

Asteroid hues

Upping fight against blight

Red or white, grapes are black at heart

Crater finding linked to biggest ever wipe-out

Test may boost IVF success

Airborne particulates can mutate DNA

Technology

Secure signature means no one can steal your ID

Technology

NASA one step closer to shuttle repair in orbit

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Will video kill the gaming star?

Technology

Light salve

Technology

Enter the nano etcher

Technology

24 downloads from tulsa

Technology

Has Moore’s law had its chips?

Technology

Laying siege to the grid

Opinion

Burning bridges

Tough visa restrictions are depriving the US of the chance to win allies

All the best ideas begin as heresy

Bucking the big bang

Technology

Up in the air!

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Into the dark state

Somewhere between radiation and matter lies a mysterious state in which light stands still. Its strange properties could revolutionise the way we build computers, says Eugenie Samuel Reich

Out of Asia

Fanning the flames

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Animal wrongs

Mind Time: The temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet

Comfrey and cowslips

Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum

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