Life
Alive! The race to create life from scratch
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This week's magazine
12 February 2005
Issue 2486
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Technology
Bunker-busting bombs back on US agenda
The US Congress blocked funding for the nuclear weapons in 2004, but the administration has requested renewed funding
News
Health
Gene therapy trial suffers new setback
News
Life
Monkey moniker goes up for auction
News
Earth
Disaster mitigation plans take shape
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Experimental mini nuclear plant in the pipeline
News
Space
End of Hubble’s days in sight
News
Earth
Rare rhino evacuation plan scuppered
News
Earth
Climate change: Act now, before it is too late
News
Earth
Climate change: Awaking the sleeping giants
News
Space
Mini star could offer haven for life
News
Health
Second ‘designer’ steroid identified
News
Soundbites
News
Space
Beagle 2 was doomed from the start
News
Earth
Ancient tsunami scrambled the fossil record
News
Life
Alphabet similarities come in threes
News
Technology
The bacterial future of fuel cells
News
Health
High hopes for DNA-based TB vaccine
News
Free-falling ants steer themselves to safety
News
Health
First partial pancreas transplant a success
News
Space
The universe is no place for megastars
News
Life
Foxes make better dogs than wolves do
News
Health
Marijuana really does cause a headrush
News
Technology
Night-vision camera turns night into day
News
Health
Million dollar reward to remove arsenic from water
News
Technology
Light-emitting line reels in the big fish
News
Technology
Spammers attack while looking legit
News
Technology
Software converts camcorder into back-up drive
News
Technology
Forget takeout, eat a print-out
News
Technology
Invention
News
Technology
$100 laptop sought for world’s poor
News
Technology
‘Podcasters’ deliver radio-on-demand
News
Opinion
Space
Editorial: Beagle 2, cock-ups and conspiracy
Kicking and screaming, the UK government and European Space Agency are forced to publish the embarrassing report into Beagle 2's failure
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: Climate change threat may be underestimated
Opinion
The great university sell out
Opinion
Health
Interview: The heart healer
Opinion
Humans
Westminster diary
Opinion
Features
Life
Alive! The race to create life from scratch
What are the ingredients needed to create life? Meet the people who claim they are about to find out
Features
The Los Alamos bug
Features
Technology
Robots inspired by Segway balancing act
Features
Earth
Climate change: Menace or myth?
Features
Meet the global warming sceptics
Features
Hotly contested
Features
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Life
Human Bones: A scientific and pictorial investigation by R McNeill Alexander
Books & Arts
Life
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Books & Arts
Life
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field edited by Bonnie J Ploger and Ken Yasukawa
Books & Arts
Space
Out now in paperback
Books & Arts
Out now in paperback
Books & Arts
Technology
Gaming Hacks by Simon Carless
Books & Arts
Pioneering Research: A risk worth taking by Donald Braben
Books & Arts
A Sense of the Mysterious by Alan Lightman
Books & Arts
