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Silicon toons

A toy astronaut and a cowboy doll have been brought to life in a digitised bedroom for the world's first feature-length computer animation. Clive Davidson looks at the technology that made it possible

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Hungry for a new revolution

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Earth

When north flies south

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Safety in Diversity

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Snap-together Satellites – Remember those model kits from your childhood, with sheets of push-out parts? Substitute carbon composite for balsawood and you have a revolution in satellite manufacture. Leonard David reports

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Physics

Planes, trains and wormholes

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A sporting chance – What’s visible only through a microscope, makes testosterone and can keep a runner out of international athletics? Jeremy Webb reports on a case that claims to challenge the textbooks

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Off with its Head: Because the Internet symbolises freedom of information, governments are falling over themselves to rein it in. Argues that they risk destroying the very thing they are trying to control

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Lost in space: What could NASA want with fishing tackle and a Soyuz space capsule? Looks at the plans for evacuating the international space station in an emergency

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Cosmic changelings: Some of nature’s tiniest particles may flip from one type to another. Now plans are afoot for giant laboratories to catch them in the act.

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Seals to the slaughter

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Thought Control: Machines can already tune into brain waves to bypass damaged nerves, and the day is coming when they may even plug into the brain itself

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Taking arms against the knife: Wielded by a fit adult, an ordinary knife has

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Simply Faster: The formula that has given us ever more powerful chips will not work for very much longer, and chip makers are puzzling over what to do next

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