Mad brains and the prion heresy: The idea that a simple protein could act as an infectious agent was too much for most biochemists. Georgina Ferry reports on what happened when one man dared to go out on a limb
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How collectors killed: One hundred and fifty years ago next week the last two great auks ever seen were killed at their breeding colony on a tiny island off the coast of Iceland. Tim Birkhead chronicles the bird's fate
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Will the Space Clipper stay a DREAM?: Star Wars spawned the technology that could make space travel as routine as air travel, and a prototype reusable rocket has already flown. Arlan Andrews explains how its fate is hanging on a report to be published ne
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Table of contents
News
Technology
Technology: Auntie steals a lead in wide screens
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Technology
Technology: How to pick a winner from the fibre formbook
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Technology
Technology: IBM stacks up CD storage
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Technology
Technology: Smart videos keep track of pedestrians
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Technology
Technology: France lights the way to molecular switches
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Patents: Camera tricks
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Science: How ice survives on fiery Mercury
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Science: Ozone over America thins to record low
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Science: Electron waves are in the groove
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Science: Tiny wires form inside crystal
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Science: How to make 'stars' out of dark matter
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Pharaohs' first flagstone road
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Paper promises?
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British tummy
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Winning genes
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Trials on trial: A single incident of fraud has put studies of medical treatments under the political spotlight in the US. Bernice Wuethrich asks if the fallout threatens the future of clinical research
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DMA test traps shale traders
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Novelist's illness was no fiction
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Big butcher of Boxgrove leaves a bone behind
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South Koreans caught in the act
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Genetic first upsets food lobby
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Yours authentically
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Ready to grab
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Good vibrations give plants excitations
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Land of the rising computer drowns in paper
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Very large row over telescope
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Tough target for Britain's ozone
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Is US carelessness arming foreign powers?
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Catastrophes take their toll on a crowded world
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Russia gambles on biotechnology
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AIDS must compete for research cash
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Opinion
Features
Mad brains and the prion heresy: The idea that a simple protein could act as an infectious agent was too much for most biochemists. Georgina Ferry reports on what happened when one man dared to go out on a limb
Features
How collectors killed: One hundred and fifty years ago next week the last two great auks ever seen were killed at their breeding colony on a tiny island off the coast of Iceland. Tim Birkhead chronicles the bird's fate
Features
Will the Space Clipper stay a DREAM?: Star Wars spawned the technology that could make space travel as routine as air travel, and a prototype reusable rocket has already flown. Arlan Andrews explains how its fate is hanging on a report to be published ne
Features
