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Bodies

Sexual power of the waistline

Rise and fall of big people

Adipose is ok

Slicing through fat

Sex & the symmetrical body

Table of contents

News

US bans gene prejudice at work

Sun lights up Germany’s bus stops

Experts call for tighter ro-ro safety

Did toxic mix cause Gulf sickness?

Grapefruit helps after transplants

Net hijacks international phone calls

Old tyres keep fairways green

Axe falls on aid researchers

Happy pills frighten off depressed people

Tell me, what seems to be the problem?

Ivory ban fails to stop the slaughter

Money for organs attracts ‘dodgy donors’

Enemies prepare to pounce on wildlife law

Britain must spend more showing off its inventions

France counts the cost of cheap diesel

Nosy neighbour

Help for men

Heart-stopper

Poor relations

Bats in the belfry

Mother’s ruin

Pioneering robot comes to light

Saving Snake River’s wild salmon

Fresh blow for greenhouse sceptics

Tadpoles snatch savlation from the jaws of disaster

Why rock artists turned to animals

Killer trees choked ocean life

Have the stars being lying about their age?

Workers of the beehive, unite!

Toxic ‘chain reaction’ kills brain cells

Brain scan lights up route to Alzheimer’s

Technology

Eye drops are unmoved by tears

Technology

Virus with a mission to destroy tumours

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Application Forms

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Flames

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Sneaky Weapons

Technology

How much to dish up digital TV?

Technology

Program cooks up a recipe for health

Technology

World Wide Web gains a new dimension

Technology

Glowing fibres signal radiation

Opinion

Just because you’re brilliant 鈥�

Every child a wanted child?

Features

Bodies

Eating disorders are reaching pandemic levels as the food industry purges its products of fat, and cosmetic surgeons cash in on vanity like never before. The shape of our bodies has been sculpted by millions of years of evolution. Why then are we so obses

Sexual power of the waistline

Rise and fall of big people

Adipose is ok

Slicing through fat

Sex & the symmetrical body

More

Under the yoke of accuracy

Quarks and leptons all in a row

A modern data pilot

What will the stork bring?

Download to up citations

Can secrecy breed excellence?

I promise not to call you a moron again

Understanding research

Enigma No. 819 The money mountain

Spilling oil on troubled waters

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Questions and Answers

This week’s questions

Crinkle tips

What’s the point?

Sloping off

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