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Hunting the Horse Killer

Molecules to make plants tick

Japan Heads for Quantum Country

End of the Green Crusade

Table of contents

News

Filling station fires spark cars’ recall

Lonesome pines at risk from collectors

‘Pruned’ patent sets precedent

Trust promises research dividend

Asbestos shock in Kobe cleanup

City must give R&D a chance

Skimmed milk may be healthier for babies too

Old photos chart destruction of Australia’s reef

Israelis at odds over old bones

Warm hearts in a cold land

Big One threatens the Big Apple

Could an earthquake strike New York?

People outdo the elements as shapers of the landscape

Lessons for mothers who want a quiet life

Why the search for smart genes is doomed

Arctic ice shows speed of climate ‘flips’

Pests leave lasting impression on plants

Liver in a box could bridge transplant gap

Feeling is believing in medicine

Language deaths ‘bad for us all’

Fungus hits bugs in the gut

‘Dry’ orgasms could spawn a male pill

Genetic engineering in the womb

Molecular knots trip the light fantastic

Rain moves north in the global greenhouse

Busy bees have a gift for numbers

Crystals bid for diamond’s crown

Cosmic collisions could solve gamma-ray mystery

The metal-plated mountains of Venus

Technology

‘Electron highway’ points to identity of DNA

Technology

Magnesium smelter puts toxic waste to work

Technology

Battle for Britain’s phone numbers

Technology

Quantum tunnel leads to microscopic fridge

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Net Designers

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� English Language

Technology

Bright future for glowing gene

Technology

It’s good to talk like a human

Technology

Mini tubes help chips let off steam

Enigma: No 812 Upon my word!

Opinion

All our origins

Queensberry’s final KO?

Features

Hunting the Horse Killer

A mysterious disease is killing hundreds of horses every year. Follows the trail that could lead to the culprit

Molecules to make plants tick

Japan Heads for Quantum Country

End of the Green Crusade

More

Stirrings in the primordial soup

What turns a bug into a beauty

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly 鈥�

B is for boron and buckyballs

Model weed at work

Hands across the Straits

A Frenchman in his prime

Provisional tales from the fact factory

A dig or two at the past

A good guide in a crisis

Notes from the edge of the Universe

Taking the heart out of the land

Counting the cost of inadequate maths

Let’s leave the cadet astronauts at home

Who will teach the teachers their primary lessons?

Time to play the numbers game

Regulars

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This week’s question

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Brick it up

The wet stuff

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