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Look to the insect …: For years, insect-like robots were graceless shufflers, easily outclassed by the common cockroach. Big changes are afoot

Greener way to solar power

Is it a cow? Is it a bird?: The chick looks like a baby punk. It grows into something resembling a cross between a turkey and a pheasant, and reeks of manure

Genetic testings is becoming the parents’ dilemma

Table of contents

News

Deadly worm may be turning drug-resistant

Mass sackings threat to councils

Biotechnology faces trial by jury

France gambles on Rhine-Rho藛ne canal

Egg-stealing dinosaur was innocent, OK

Alien termites set up home in Devon

Drug brings relief to big spenders

How I made a nuclear bomb and other stories

Flying in the face of a pilot’s need to sleep

Simple food guide goes to the heart of the matter

Queue here for the superhighway …

Education is the best prevention

Herpes gene tackles brain tumours

World scale

Setback at CERN

Serfs of academe

Chernobyl study

Is that a moonrock round your neck?

Illegal photocopies

Smell of fertility

Head-on collision over transport: The British government has received its sternest warning yet that its unflagging support for the car is seriously at odds with its own green principles

Baby oil reveals neutrino’s secrets

`Warm’ white dwarf comes in from the cold

Do we live in a magnetic monopole?

Ringside seat gives Galileo a glittering display

Epidurals are not a pain in the back

Are the Antipodes in hot water?

Technology

Digital fingerprints protect artwork

Technology

Channel 5 costs head into orbit

Technology

Sulphur bulbs light the way to cheaper fuel bills

Technology

Buyers may pay more for recycling

Technology

Bright sparks check up on chimneys

Technology

Emergency rescue saves Poland’s pine forests

Enigma No 796

Opinion

Swap you one fried egg …

Off the record

Features

Look to the insect …: For years, insect-like robots were graceless shufflers, easily outclassed by the common cockroach. Big changes are afoot

Greener way to solar power

Is it a cow? Is it a bird?: The chick looks like a baby punk. It grows into something resembling a cross between a turkey and a pheasant, and reeks of manure

Genetic testings is becoming the parents’ dilemma

More

Sexual innocents and serendipity: The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior by Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland, Simon & Schuster, pp 272, $23

Our debt to wild medicine: Earthly Goods: Medicine Hunting in the Rainforest by Christopher Joyce, Little Brown, pp 304, 拢16.99

The art of the aerial eye

In our image … Rebecca Horn Exhibition at the Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London

Hard times of an intellectual outsider

Pleasantly puzzling pastimes

The American way of health: Vandals at the Gates of Medicine by Miguel A. Faria, Hacienda Publishing, Macon, Georgia, pp 403, $41.95

Bodies of knowledge: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Human Being by Robert Youngson, Guinness, pp 284, 拢21.95 The Guinness Encyclopedia of Science by Robert Youngson, Guinness, pp 306, 拢21.95

Vote, vote, vote for fuzzy logic: How the maybes could yet win out in a democracy

So who’s being woolly minded now?

Some very risky business: Comment from Westminster

James Cook crowned the vice-captain of universities: Examines the latest research funding

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