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The hottest rocks on Earth: Ancient lava could hold the key to what happened beneath the Earth’s crust more than two and a half billion years ago-and help pinpoint new sources of the world’s most valuable minerals

Fat is a pharmaceutical issue: Every day millions of people turn to diet pills as a last resort. But as drugs companies continue to prey on this desire to be slim, more and more doctors are challenging the chemical fix

Whose copyright is it anyway?

Saving Haiti’s bacon

The face of a new technology: The inside story of Philips’s decision to launch the Digital Compact Cassette and its engineers’ struggle to build it

The high cost of carbon dioxide: Great balls of ice or a sea floor coated with snow – just two of the imaginative schemes being dreamt up to deal with one of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gases

The great folic acid scandal: Government-funded research proved beyond doubt that one of the B vitamins plays a powerful part in preventing common birth defects. So why isn’t it in our daily bread?

Multiple sclerosis: first aid for nerve fibres: It will be a long time before we know what causes MS. Meanwhile, four researchers in Cambridge are tracking down a new way to bring relief to people with this chronic illness

Who’d fly a superfighter?: Fighter aircraft now manoeuvre so powerfully that their pilots are passing out before the new generation of planes can fulfil their design potential

The limits to Freedom: The space station used to be sexy – a patriotic game that could one day lead to Mars. Now critics say it is good for nothing but wasting taxpayers’ dollars

Maps that shape the world: Like a huge piece of orange peel

A better recipe for making materials: In the industrial kitchens where materials are made, smart sensors and mathematical models are replacing rules of thumb and trial and error

Did Tibet cool the world?: When India and Asia collided more

No way to treat a body: Ten thousand people in Britain alone injure themselves deliberately and regularly. Why do they do it and how can they stop?