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When the solar wind blows: The northern lights are a sign of the awesome power that the Earth receives from the solar wind. The big puzzle is how

Science beyond the ballot box: Expectations are high that the election will be on 9 April. Before the election manifestoes blind everyone with promises, what is on offer for the way science is run after polling day?

Pioneer, the persistent probe: Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to head for Jupiter, proved that probes could reach the outer planets of our Solar System. Twenty years on, it is sending us messages from interstellar space

Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer

Conservation and the ivory tower

The oldest ice in the world: Snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved in the Greenland icecap. Drilling this summer will unlock the clues it holds to the climate before the last ice age

Storm warning over Southeast Asia: Many developing countries say the North has sown the seeds of global warming. But a new report shows that it is the South that could reap the whirlwind

Face to face with the perfect image: Images generated by computer are adding new dimensions to traditional portraiture. Besides their humorous value, these images are beginning to reveal how we process faces

Return to Madagascar: Little is known about Madagascar’s remarkable natural history. Now the island is opening its doors to the world’s researchers

Life and death in a digital world: No one can turn back the evolutionary clock, but we can follow the fate of a rich menagerie of artificial organisms as they evolve in a model world

Happy birthday, Supernova 1987A: Five years ago next week, astronomers saw a brilliant star explode. The supernova has now faded, but its expanding debris is likely to trigger more interstellar fireworks

The hidden cost of Canada’s cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?

South Africa’s other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region’s prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs

Humans

How the wild beasts were tamed