‘DNA computer’ cracks code
Biology tackles the most complex task yet solved without electronic computers
Physicist scoops religion prize
John Polkinghorne wins £700 000 Templeton Prize
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Light flashes charge the atmosphere
‘Blue jets’ make an electrical connection between clouds and the upper atmosphere
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Physicists forecast ‘super-Niño’
El Niño and La Niña could be fluctuations in a longer-term climate phenomenon
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Thermal emission goes coherent
Nanoscale gratings enable thermal sources to emit coherent infrared light
Cold atoms carry light pulses
Physicists transport and modify trapped light pulses for the first time
US could beam neutrinos to Japan
Physicists hope to send neutrinos ten thousand kilometres through the Earth
Fusion-in-a-bubble sparks controversy
Evidence of nuclear fusion in a sonoluminescence experiment is dismissed by other scientists
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A new golden age for astronomy
Early results from the Gemini South and VLT observatories herald a new era in astronomy
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New clue for planet hunters
Discs of dust around distant stars could reveal more extrasolar planets
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