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Neutrons tackle ‘sludge science’: Many everyday materials can be a nightmare to study. Now neutrons from nuclear reactors provide a tool for investigating the dynamics of soft condensed matter

Life and death in the condemned cell: Doomed cells never die, they just self-destruct. This strange phenomenon is crucial to fighting infection and disease

Europe switches on electronics: The ESPRIT research programme aimed to make Europe a leading player in world electronics. But recent changes could replace competition against Japan and the US with collaboration

Breast cancer: turning figures into facts – Recent findings have raised women’s hopes of better treatment for breast cancer. How were the results reached and how easily can the improvements be put into practice?

Stalking the safe mushroom: People are risking indigestion for the sake of a tasty morsel of mushroom. Spotting the safe varieties is a fine art

The mind of a very special machine?: Likening the mind to a computer does not have to be dehumanising. For the computational systems that interest psychologists are no ordinary ‘machines’

The thinking woman’s guide to the mind: Philosopher and self-styled computational psychologist, Margaret Boden uses artificial intelligence as a way of understanding aspects of the human mind

Piecing together the Pacific: The largest ocean of the world is also the oldest, according to a new reconstruction of the position of the continents nearly 750 million years ago

Solving the doctor’s dilemma?: The medieval art of argument by ‘casuistry’ is making a comeback in the US. The new casuists are avoiding abstractions and focusing on real situations

Nuclear matter in a spin: Spinning pulsars and atomic nuclei undergo a momentary ‘quake’ that reveals the innermost secrets of their superfluid structure

Faces from the past: Evidence from fossils on the way our faces evolved gives new clues to the ancestry of modern humans and apes. We may be more ape-like than we think

The taste of tea: What’s in a cup of tea?

How chips build better lasers: Microchips packed with lasers operating at different wavelengths will improve optical computing and communications, although no one is quite sure how

Otze: the man who came in from the cold – For nearly three months, scientists have waited patiently to examine the body of a man preserved in ice for four millennia. By the end of January their wait should be over