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Igniting laser fusion: Will the US government safeguard the future of its weapons designers by parting with almost $1 billion for the construction of the world’s most powerful laser? Jeff Hecht reports

Real juice, pure fraud: Trading standards inspectors in Europe and North America are cracking down on the fraudsters who adulterate fruit juice but sell it as pure, says Tara Patel

El Salvador’s buried roots: Out of the ash of an ancient volcanic eruption, archaeologists are unravelling the complexities of village life in 7th-century Central America

Froths, foams and heady geometry: The head on a glass of beer doesn’t look like a tough geometrical challenge. Yet the way bubbles fit together is intoxicating mathematicians, writes Denis Weaire

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News

Mystery virus linked to asbestos cancer

‘Quiet’ planes will still keep people awake

Austrian researcher hounded by Home Office

Tough challenge for Mandela’s science minister

Industry bosses push for hands-on R&D policy

Fury over funds for spaceplane

Cane toads on the export menu

Piecing together how the brain works

Chummy chickens are allowed to keep their beaks

Raffle them bones . . .

Is it curtains for the ozone hole?

Tremors shake confidence in nuclear complex

Record damage to England’s protected wildlife sites

Green cups

Measles worry

Family with back-to-front organs

Canada cleaner

No pictures

Is sludge safe?

Money for life

Should the cat take the rap?: Cats in Australia are accused of hunting down the country’s rare animals. State and local governments now want them to be registered, neutered or worse. Ian Anderson reports from Melbourne

Science: Galaxy cluster shot through the heart

Science: Tough silicon molecule that breaks the rules

Science: Spanner in the works for particle physics

Science: Domesticated cattle show their breeding

Science: How dark tops keep birds at bay

Science: In the beginning was the pyrite . . .

Technology

Technology: Cut-price challenge by modem maker

Technology

Technology: Electronic facts to save forests

Technology

Technology: Fuzzy logic finds leaking pipes

Technology

Technology: Human solution for kidney failure

Technology

Technology: News camera could squeeze pictures onto disc

Technology

Technology: Tissue keeps its cool as tumour feels the heat

Opinion

Comment: Short people got short fuses?

Comment: Fear of failing

Basic research left out in the cold

Features

Igniting laser fusion: Will the US government safeguard the future of its weapons designers by parting with almost $1 billion for the construction of the world’s most powerful laser? Jeff Hecht reports

Real juice, pure fraud: Trading standards inspectors in Europe and North America are cracking down on the fraudsters who adulterate fruit juice but sell it as pure, says Tara Patel

El Salvador’s buried roots: Out of the ash of an ancient volcanic eruption, archaeologists are unravelling the complexities of village life in 7th-century Central America

Froths, foams and heady geometry: The head on a glass of beer doesn’t look like a tough geometrical challenge. Yet the way bubbles fit together is intoxicating mathematicians, writes Denis Weaire

More

Roots of fatigue

Review: Birth of a big idea

Review: Cunning ways to feed facts

Review: Principled poets and hallucinating computers

Review: Gaia’s garden

Review: Adventures with auks

Review: Gumdrop, Socorro and other space oddities

Review: The importance of being Alice

Review: Green treatises

Forum: Why can’t we talk to the animals? – Marc Bekoff sees mice, geese, dogs and chimpanzees as partners, not objects

Forum: Serenading students – Elizabeth Timoney considers the importance of quantum jokes

Thistle Diary: Speak up, minister – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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