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Working Live Wires

Those ears were made for walking: Peering into the inner ear of fossil skulls may help us solve the mystery of when humans first stood up and walked. But, writes Pat Shipman, it may have an even bigger surprise in store

Making friends with death-wish genes: Persuading renegade cells to do the decent thing and die for the good of the organism could be the next big thing in cancer research, says Kate Douglas

What a tangled Web they wove…

Table of contents

News

Europe’s top 100 polluters

Bitter choice for exiled islanders

Fat-laden food from south of the border

Exit Waldegrave, enter Hunt

Battered Jupiter shows its wounds

Kangaroo caught descending from the trees

Doctors fail to recognise fatal brain disease

Pro-lifers attack fetal egg rules

Altered tomato faces ban from British shops

Drivers ignore smog alert

Paris ‘non’ to syringe dispensers

Schools need more technology teachers, says engineers

Jobs go extinct

Fantasy fish with something to say

Unlucky newts

Mini-moss

Clipper climb-down

Clean burn

Bad company cars

All gas and guesswork: Nations trying to agree practical steps to combat global warming are finding that they do not have the crucial figures. Fred Pearce reports

Science: When monster shrimps ruled the world

Science: Orchids thrive by being mean

Science: Moving target guides drivers round the bend

Science: Did the Earth ever freeze over?

Science: On the fish farm, boys are best

Science: Heavy metals found in space

Technology

Technology: Software agents to roam phone network

Technology

Technology: Biotech shares hit as drugs trials are cut short

Technology

Technology: Buckyballs add polish to diamond films

Technology

Technology: Of oysters, ships and sealing wounds . . .

Technology

Technology: Stop watching TV, just listen

Patents: Patent Office fights for independence

Patents: Spaced-out stereo

Patents: Tug for takeoff

Patents: Safety in the shades

Patents: Stopping the pops

Patents: Get ahead, get a hat

What a tangled Web they wove…

Opinion

Comment: Fallout poisons Pacific islands

Americans have been outraged over the emerging story of radiation experiments conducted on people during the Cold War

Comment: Africa’s crisis

Features

Working Live Wires

This month, a crack team from Britain's electricity supply company began working on overhead cables 鈥� without turning the power off. David Fishlock joined a training session

Those ears were made for walking: Peering into the inner ear of fossil skulls may help us solve the mystery of when humans first stood up and walked. But, writes Pat Shipman, it may have an even bigger surprise in store

Making friends with death-wish genes: Persuading renegade cells to do the decent thing and die for the good of the organism could be the next big thing in cancer research, says Kate Douglas

What a tangled Web they wove…

More

Review: A home fit for ecowarriors

Review: Five thousand years of certitude

Review: Adapt or die

Review: Quantum theory’s magnificient four

Review: How water’s revolution was betrayed

Review: Pressing problems, distant solutions

Review: Everything but the crown jewels

Forum: Hypnotherapy: who is abusing whom? – It’s time to bring practitioners under control, says Phil Bagnall

Forum: Bigger cars for clearer roads

Forum: Nuclear inquiries go critical – Ian Lloyd fears that we are burying one of our energy hopes in mounds of reports

Washington Diary: Last words from lawyers and turf accountants Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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