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Giants in their field

Come the end of the century, computer hard discs will store 20 times more information. That's all thanks to the magic of giant magnetoresistance

Meteorites 鈥� the children of the asteroids

Life unlimited

Even aircraft have feelings

Fossil hunter of the Karoo: South Africa is home to thousands of fossils which tell the story of how reptiles evolved into mammals some 200 million years ago. Profiles the man who devoted his life to collecting them

Living factories: Microbes are being converted into plastic production lines, making materials that combine the best of synthetic and natural worlds.

Watch out, here comes the Sun

Virtually real, really sick

Faith, hope and rocketry

Unwisdom of the Solomons

It's mad, unworkable and politically dubious say the critics. But, the government of the Solomon Islands plans to sell a very unusual product

Sugaring the pill

Red or dead?

Downhome technopia

Stardust to catch a comet by the tail