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Table of contents

News

Foreign pressure builds on Slovak reactors

Beware the red spot, warn New York’s finest

DNA to unravel secrets of Dead Sea Scrolls

Forest grows tall on radio waves

Experts question approval of altered bacterium

How HIV never lets up

Alternative antifouling widespread in Europe

Chip giants turn up the heat on hoodlums

‘Half-hour vital for ro-ro safety’

How the World Cup was won

German plants thwart Thorp

Smuggling law makes villains out of museums

Jupiter still scarred by comet’s impact

France falls into line over turtle ranch

Asthma alert

Dangerous agents

Steps to preserve oldest footprints

Cheap solar power

Not guilty

Up for grabs

Seeing the wood for the trees

Altered cells show promise for Parkinson’s

The secret sex life of the Amazon molly

Did deathrays destroy species?

Overcrowding in outer space

Cosmic ripples continue to make waves

Leaf-cutting ants are slaves to the rhythm

Moon’s dark side reveals its biggest secret

How oestrogen keeps the blues at bay

Technology

Plastic cables pull power from the sea

Technology

Gene engineers grow better polymer plants

Technology

The difficult art of videophone conversation

Technology

Patent claim could net unwary software companies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Address

Technology

Computer mimic is up to speed

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� UNABOM Bomber

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Science needs you

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� CIA

Technology

The long arm of electronic law

Technology

The snail and the jet engine

Enigma: No 805 A prime year

Opinion

The Universe we deserve?

Features

New eyes for an ageing star

By the mid-1980s, light pollution from Los Angeles was just too much for the venerable Hooker Telescope. Now some smart technology is restoring its sight

Pardox of the spheres

Robots: the next generation

Return to the wild

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Get under your skin

Only 3 millimetres thick but stretched across 2 square metres, human skin is our largest and most visible organ. And yet most of the time we take it for granted 鈥� however without it, life as we know it would be impossible

Blasting the dam boosters

This research is sponsored by 鈥�: Tainted Truth

Our man at the plant face

In the blue corner, Isaac Newton

A Galileo come among us?

How now, barn owl

Speedy hedgehogs and media myths

Hold the front page

Bubbling up from the Badlands

Spreading the word on innovation

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week’s questions

Questions and Answers

Drip dry

Keep him talking

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