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Growing money from Algorithms

Why Presidents have more sons

Pumping iron in the Pacific

Parkinson’s a suitable case for treatment

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News

Soliders lay waste to Africa’s oldest park

A slice of life on the Internet

Sun sets on Japan’s economic miracle

Gummer buries list of poisoned land

When the dance floor rocks and rolls

Could waterwings stop ro-ros capsizing?

Vampire fish show their teeth

Kazakhs trade uranium for aid

Pollution peaks on bonfire night

French aim their sights on pink flamingos

Clinton plans to green US timber

Environment

Taiwan’s tragic orang-utans

Thumbs down for killers

Scorpion gene virus on trial in Oxford

Tortilla taste

Prostate clue

Cancer concern

Ozone lowest yet

Tree rings a clear winner

Worth its salt

Plenty of plutonium

Testing time

All charged up and nowhere to go

Ice ages: the peat bog connection

Carbon-14 makes its stellar debut

Do ETs phone home with neutrinos?

Old stardust has makings of new solar systems

HIV relies on human ‘chaperone’ protein to reproduce

Technology

BT’s big break into TV broadcasting

Technology

Net benefits result from smarter economics

Technology

Gearing up to get ahead on the roads

Technology

Infrared alerts doctors to glaucoma

Technology

Screw tightens up maintenance costs

Technology

Smarter motors are cleaner motors

Technology

A sting in Disney’s fairy tale

Enigma: Going to great lengths

Opinion

Snakes and ladders

A very blunt instrument

Features

Growing money from Algorithms

Why are genetic algorithms so attractive to financial wizards; inside information

Why Presidents have more sons

Pumping iron in the Pacific

Parkinson’s a suitable case for treatment

More

Jules Verne’s swing at the sixties

Blame it on the genes

Seventeen years’ hard labour for the twitchers

How to conquer the fear of maths

Eggs is eggs is eggs

Paperbacks: Questions and answers for physical sciences, and spotting a bargain

Let’s hear it for our finned friends

Hurricane Cable rips through the suburbs

How to make an adventure count

Clear skies over South Africa

The Dragon of the Top End

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Questions and Answers

Symbolic uses

This week’s questions

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