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Panic in Gadget City: The search for the next big product is on in the cut-throat world of consumer electronics

Future of a superpower

Cities in the sky: Imagine the tallest building in the world, and then double the height of it. You could be living there sooner than you think . . .

Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised

How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport’s most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf’s growing popularity

Computer chaos at medicine’s cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other

Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?

Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance – Geneticists are close to identifying a gene that can lead to hereditary breast cancer. But at first this breakthrough could raise more problems than it solves

Shine on, brilliant galaxy: What lies at the heart of the brightest galaxies in the Universe? An old theory could be making a comeback

Early warning for the next Chernobyl: The high cost of making the former Soviet Union’s ageing nuclear power plants safe is forcing Western governments to set up an early warning system for radiation leaks

Last chance for the wasting wilderness?: Neglect is destroying two of Britain’s most precious natural habitats. The second part of our series explains why government intervention is needed

The perils of planting pesticides: Natural toxins from soil bacteria were once hailed as benign pesticides. But transplanting their genes into crops could backfire

Earth

The climate conundrum: Chill warnings from Greenland

Justice at last for the dodo