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Issue 8
NEW AGE NUCLEARNuclear power produces almost no greenhouse gases, but it has many drawbacks. Now a radical new technology based on thorium promises what uranium never delivered: abundant, safe and clean energy. Tim Dean explores the possibilities.
GOODBYE CHEAP OILGlobal demand for oil will one day overtake our ability to produce it cheaply, and prices will skyrocket as half the world's easily extractable oil is gone. But when? Jim Motavalli tells us a growing number think soon - if it hasn't already happened. OTHER FEATURES
PREDATORIt was the most ferocious meat-eating marsupial of all time, but as Carmelo Amalfi explains, it remained a mystery to science - until a treasure trove of fossils was discovered, and a window to the past was opened.
WEB OF DECEITHad it not been for a group of young scientists and a determined television show, we might never have known that stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo-suk was a fake. Elizabeth Finkel traces the saga.
FREEZING POINTClues to a sudden, unexplained climatic shift 5,200 years ago are being unmasked by the retreat of the world's tropical glaciers. John Fleischman asks whether it could be a warning.
HIS BRILLIANT CAREERShaking up the British establishment is just the sort of thing Robert May was cut out for. Robin McKie meets the personable, blunt, jocular and eminent Australian scientist who's made British science a lot more interesting. REGULAR SECTIONS
CHANGE OF PACE
Peter Doherty describes how he was pushed from comfortable obscurity to national prominence. Nothing quite prepared him for winning a Nobel Prize. PORTRAIT
Explosive experiments involving Scalextric sets, 12-volt transformers and wine casks started medical researcher Taher Omari's passion for science. EXPRESS
The news everyone else missed. CALL OF THE WILD
The world's most beautiful photographs of the creatures and places that make our planet unique - from the winners of the 2005 Wildlife Photographer of the Year. CRUEL TO BE KIND
Aping around does not include spite or kindness. It seems those qualities are exclusively human, as Vanessa Woods reveals. EMPIRE OF THE ANTS
From its first chapter in the suburb of Balwyn, a giant sisterhood of ants has tunnelled its way under most of Melbourne. Graeme O'Neill has the low-down. THE SUNFISH
Weighing up to two tonnes and measuring three metres in diameter, the ocean sunfish is the world's largest bony fish and possibly the least attractive. SEARCH FOR THE CANAANITES
Previously known chiefly from biblical texts, excavations in Jordan are slowly revealing the true nature of the Canaanite people. David Ellyard digs up the dirt. MOONSTRUCK
Since returning to Earth, astronaut Alan Bean has spent decades trying to capture in paint the feeling of walking on the Moon. Andrew Smith meets the only artist to have walked on the moon. GEYSERS OF ICE
Rick Lovett describes an icy plume of water spewing from one of Saturn's moons that may finally explain a troubling mystery of Saturn's enigmatic rings. FREEZE FRAME
From the videotape wars of the early '80s, VHS emerged the winner. So what ever happened to Beta? Sara Phillips investigates. ZOOM ZOOM
The automobile gave us unprecedented mobility - that's unanimous. But ask who invented the contraption and you might ruffle some feathers. HALF-LIVED
While proudly 'nuclear free' today, New Zealand was once a hotbed of uranium prospecting. Rebecca Priestley describes why Kiwi minds were changed. VOYAGE TO VENUS
The search to understand our inhospitable sister-world begins on the unwelcoming steppe of Kazakhstan. Robin McKie braves the cold. FICTION
One night, Jules is confronted by unpleasant strangers with guns. He doesn't like them at all. "Empathy", original fiction by Chris Lawson. FRACTURE ZONE
Kashmir sits on a seismic fault line that scientists are racing to understand, for, as Jan McGirk reveals, they know that the devastating quake of 2005 is only a precursor to a truly catastrophic disaster. OMNIVORE
Reviews of books, DVDs and TV. PRÊT-À-PORTER
Gadgets with a spotlight on wireless broadband PANDORA
Facts, fun, trivia and clever birds WHATEVER
The funny side of cancer 
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