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What’s Dvorak doing on Mercury?

The rise and rise of food poisoning

Collapse of the Golden City

When the Great Bell Broke

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News

Cotton patent left hanging by a thread

UN picks new leader in the fight against AIDS

French declare war on rats and rabbits of seabird isle

Political paralysis stalls biodiversity talks

Big crunch looms for northern India

Free trade the key to Britain’s future

Bureaurcrats weigh down Australian research

Worms recruited to clear Bombay’s rubbish

Test for ‘fast’ gene that speeds up Alzheimer’s

Long-distance shocks rumble test-ban cheats

Alpine iceman was a martyr to arthritis

Giant pliers pluck treasure from the deep

Net backs probe into cold fusion

‘Harmless’ bacteria cripple millions

Xmas asteroid skims past Earth

Potoroo’s return

Unsexy cigarettes

HRT trial

Sun power lights up the night

No Contest

Doubts over quake

Water in the war zone

Conservative ants grow what they know

Do we live in the middle of the Universe?

Quark stars come in from the cold

SIV jumps species barrier

Bat-insect arms race reaches new pitch

Can bacteria help crops cut down on fertilisers?

The woman who knows no fear

Crippled parasite can’t take the heat

Technology

Shells tell tales on toxic sins of emission

Technology

Drug users leave an afterglow

Technology

A shot in the arm for synthetic blood

Technology

Plane designers fly by wire

Technology

What a tangled Web we weave

Technology

Probe burns out brain tumours

Technology

The all-singing smart card

Technology

Can multicolour diodes switch on flat screens?

Enigma: Forty-eight squares

Opinion

Behind the Noble glitz

After Rio 鈥�

Features

What’s Dvorak doing on Mercury?

Naming the hundreds of astronomical objects that turn up every year is hard work

The rise and rise of food poisoning

Collapse of the Golden City

When the Great Bell Broke

More

Secrets of the Reich’s rocket man

The art of glass

Founding fathers of the psyche

Astronaut required 鈥�

Back to school for felicific calculus

Planning for gold among the gravel

Conversations with the Earth

Seven pillars of wisdom

Beware of imitations: Perverse claims

Looking gift-horses in the mouth

The land of the long wide view

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The Last Word

Questions and Answers

Over the top

In the pink

This week’s questions

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