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Nasa tries recipe for Star Trek replicators

The Starship Enterprise from 'Star Trek'

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Agency funding the creation of a 3D ‘food printer’

From SPECIAL REPORTS 12:21am

Smart cities: Urban areas set to be test beds

Man-made spaces have potential to become laboratories, reports Sarah Murray

M2M Where virtual and real worlds meet
Brazil Mobile demand strains networks

British astronaut Major Tim Peake speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron during a meeting in 10 Downing Street in London on May 20, 2013. The former army helicopter pilot was on May 20 named as the first "home-grown" British astronaut to head to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, will fly out to the ISS in November 2015 as part of a six-man crew, becoming the first Briton ever to travel to space on a British government-funded mission.

©AFP From UK May 20, 2013

Space industry’s hopes ride on ‘Major Tim’

First UK astronaut for two decades tasked with giving sector a boost

©Roberto Frankenberg From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

The HIV hunter

Thirty years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found an unidentified virus in a patient with Aids – work which won her a Nobel Prize. She talks to Andrew Jack about the continuing battle with the disease

Image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006. It provides amazing detail and resolution of fragile filamentary structures, which show up as a reddish lacy structure surrounding the central bright galaxy

©Getty From LIFE & ARTS May 17, 2013

On the origin of universes

How Darwin’s theory of natural selection is helping cosmologists to refine the idea that universes produce daughter universes via the formation of black holes

May 16, 2013

Scientists agree global warming is man-made

Study contradicts perception of split on causes of climate change

In depth Climate change
FT Alphaville Humanity yawns on climate change

May 16, 2013

China in innovation challenge to Europe

Continent’s business leaders voice fears

©AFP From WORLD May 15, 2013

Malaria-infected mosquitos drawn to humans

Work could help boost efforts to eliminate disease

Mosquitoes Protagonists dig deeper in their efforts to crush a complex foe
Malaria More push required in fight against mass killer

handout photo issued by Cell Press showing how scientists have succeeded in obtaining stem cells from human embryos cloned from skin.

©PA May 15, 2013

Scientists make human cloning breakthrough

Caffeine proves to be vital ingredient in procedure

©Dreamstime From HEALTH May 14, 2013

E-Therapeutics ‘encouraged’ by drug trial

Company hopes to have licensing deal on ETS2101 by 2017

The Short View from MARKETS May 13, 2013

Beware side-effects of biotech boom

Scale of rally suggests caution is warranted

From LEX May 13, 2013

Elan: two can play

Drugs company is turning itself into a bigger version of its stalker

From LIFE & ARTS May 10, 2013

Science: A new market force

Trading companies are using microwave links to transmit financial transactions faster than fibre optics

From UK May 10, 2013

Quest for lasting youth continues

Changing social attitudes drive soaring anti-ageing demand

From UK May 10, 2013

Thousands gather to fight ravages of time

Thriving sector stages Britain’s first anti-ageing show

Luke Johnson from MANAGEMENT May 7, 2013

Giving is a must for successful founders

Why the wealthy donate is irrelevant. What matters is that they put their cash to work

From TELECOMS May 7, 2013

Telefónica fights digital start-up threat

Telefónica Digital made €2.5bn revenues but is growing 20% a year

May 5, 2013

Royal Society hits at Prince Andrew election

UK’s academy of scientists to review voting system

From ENERGY May 5, 2013

Repsol aids Angola’s pre-salt oil search

Sonangol given access to imaging technology

From ENERGY May 5, 2013

Repsol goes high-tech in hunt for oil

‘New lens’ drives higher production

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